John Williams

In the 1870s, Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. One of these men regales Will with tales of the immense buffalo herds hidden away in the Colorado Rockies and convinces him to join an expedition to track them down. At the end of a grueling journey,...

A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves' I, Claudius, Augustus is a sweeping narrative that brings vividly to life a compelling cast of historical figures through their letters, dispatches, and memoirs. A mere eighteen years of age when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is murdered, Octavius Caesar prematurely inherits rule of the Roman Republic. Surrounded by men who are jockeying for power—Cicero, Brutus, Cassius, and...

Corren lo sanos setenta del siglo XIX y el joven Will Andres recien graduado en la Universidad de Harvard, decide dejar el bullicio de la gran ciudad e irse hacia el Oeste para encontrar un lazo de union con la naturaleza. Ya de camino, Will recala en una ladea de Kansas llamada Butcher's Crossing, un lugar donde la unica diversion es tomar copas con hombres que han perdido ya muchas batallas y acariciar mujeres cansadas de tanto traficar con el placer....