To Catch the Lightning
Subtitle: A Novel of American Dreaming
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Incorporated
Published: 2008
Language: eng
Number of pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9781402214042
Subjects: Fiction, psychological; Journalists, fiction; Washington (state), fiction
Description: Beginning in the late 1890s, Edward Sheriff Curtis undertook the seemingly overwhelming odyssey of capturing the past, of documenting and photographing the fading way of life of the American Indian. Drawn on his epic journey by a series of female muses, Curtis turns his lens on a landscape of unparalleled beauty and tradition. His desire to complete his destiny as foretold by Chief Joseph, to photograph all of the hundreds of western American Indian tribes, is a haunting tale of the struggle between ambition and duty.