Hondo
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
In the sun-scorched Arizona Territory of the 1870s, a lone army dispatch rider named Hondo Lane rides into the life of a stubborn pioneer woman and her young son — and straight into the crosshairs of a Cavalry conflict with the Apache nation. Louis L'Amour's Hondo is a masterwork of the Western genre, a lean and propulsive novel that chronicles the collision between the untamed American frontier and the inescapable tide of civilisation, told through the moral compass of one of literature's most quietly formidable heroes. L'Amour writes with the spare, sun-bleached authority of a man who knew the land he wrote about, and Hondo illustrates his gift for characters who are defined not by words but by deeds — men of few illusions and hard-won codes of honour. Originally published in 1953 and famously adapted into a John Wayne film, the novel endures as a defining text of frontier mythology, presenting a vision of the West where courage is currency and survival demands both muscle and soul. The question that haunts every page is not whether Hondo will survive, but whether the world he believes in still exists at all.
Author: Louis L'Amour
Format: Hardback
Genre: Adventure fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
In the sun-scorched Arizona Territory of the 1870s, a lone army dispatch rider named Hondo Lane rides into the life of a stubborn pioneer woman and her young son — and straight into the crosshairs of a Cavalry conflict with the Apache nation. Louis L'Amour's Hondo is a masterwork of the Western genre, a lean and propulsive novel that chronicles the collision between the untamed American frontier and the inescapable tide of civilisation, told through the moral compass of one of literature's most quietly formidable heroes. L'Amour writes with the spare, sun-bleached authority of a man who knew the land he wrote about, and Hondo illustrates his gift for characters who are defined not by words but by deeds — men of few illusions and hard-won codes of honour. Originally published in 1953 and famously adapted into a John Wayne film, the novel endures as a defining text of frontier mythology, presenting a vision of the West where courage is currency and survival demands both muscle and soul. The question that haunts every page is not whether Hondo will survive, but whether the world he believes in still exists at all.