| Best of 2009 |
Synopsis:
(An Epic Poem of 6 books, 210 pages, and 33,616 words)
Spanning more than 1,300 years and over forty-seven
generations, Toishan bookmarks at key points in time
the contributions of the Chinese men and women who
built the American railroads.
Launching a delicate 5th Century junk from Toi Shan Province
in CE 496, the Most High Buddhist Priest Hoei-shin Ti initiates
an incredible journey up the west coast of Japan, north past the
Korean peninsula, along the Aleutian Islands, southeast toward
Alaska, down the west coast of North America, to present-day
California.
In 1865 some 1,369 years later his descendants and those of Sir
Quentin Gnarr Roberts, an Irish immigrant, are conjoined in the
most eloquent material work of both races—the construction of
The American Transcontinental Railroad.
In six spellbinding works, Cashwell chronicles the return of
the Chinese to California, and the arrival of the Irish, in an
imaginative but highly believable alternate history of the
discovery and ultimate assimilation of the American West.
(An Epic Poem of 6 books, 210 pages, and 33,616 words)
Spanning more than 1,300 years and over forty-seven
generations, Toishan bookmarks at key points in time
the contributions of the Chinese men and women who
built the American railroads.
Launching a delicate 5th Century junk from Toi Shan Province
in CE 496, the Most High Buddhist Priest Hoei-shin Ti initiates
an incredible journey up the west coast of Japan, north past the
Korean peninsula, along the Aleutian Islands, southeast toward
Alaska, down the west coast of North America, to present-day
California.
In 1865 some 1,369 years later his descendants and those of Sir
Quentin Gnarr Roberts, an Irish immigrant, are conjoined in the
most eloquent material work of both races—the construction of
The American Transcontinental Railroad.
In six spellbinding works, Cashwell chronicles the return of
the Chinese to California, and the arrival of the Irish, in an
imaginative but highly believable alternate history of the
discovery and ultimate assimilation of the American West.
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| Toishan: Book One: "In Words and Dreams and Song" Author: John E. Cashwell Paperback: 124 Pages List Price: $12.98 Availability: In Stock at Amazon Barnes & Noble |
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