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    <body><![CDATA[Gripping account of the Donner Party's struggle to survive during the winter of 1846 in the Sierra Nevada mountains, by an author who interviewed that last living survivors of the party.  I couldn't believe what they suffered before they even got to Donner Pass, much less afterward.  I read the book...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49810602">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This history of the Donner Party was first published in 1936, then updated and republished in 1960. The basics of the story of this group of Illinois settlers bound for California are known to most - they got stuck in a storm in the Sierras and eventually resorted to cannibalism to survive. But ther...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76334553">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book absolutely blew me away. I had heard of the Donner Party and knew something of their fate, but nothing can prepare you for their full story.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is required reading around here for all middle school and high school students.  While some of the book is a bit dated and reveals some racial prejudices, most of the information is pretty sound. The author tells the story of the Donner party in a narrative with a few excerpts from journal...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39293284">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was fascinating.  I was not familiar with the Donner Party's ordeal until I heard some snippets from this book on NPR a few times (mostly from the very early part of their travels).  I found a copy at the local library and could hardly put it down once I started.<br/><br/>The story of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35234017">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has scarred me. I know cannibalism wasn't even that much of the story but I just couldn't get over it. Especially the last part about the German guy left at the cabins. I wonder how much of this work is embellished. I have given up meat for a year now (before I read this) but it hasn't bee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51154634">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am always interested in books dealing with historical happenings.  This was good but it was slow in parts - I suppose that would be because a fair amount of time the Donner party spent just hunkering down due to the cold.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A good account of the often quoted and sad story of the Donner party.  Pretty amazing, more so because it was true.  Would have been popular when first published even if it were a novel.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting history of Donner Party.  Found out later from a co-worker who's an expert, that many parts were not quite correct.  Still makes a good story.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is by far my favorite book about cannibalism that does not include recipes.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[depress me more please ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[  Very well written account, fascinating!! ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An account of the Donner party disaster in the Sierra Mountains of California in the winter of 1846-47. Yes, there was cannibalism. It was so cool to go to Lake Tahoe and actually see where it all took place. I read this book in junior high and it made me love history!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[George Stewart originally wrote this book in 1935 but has ammended it.  It interweaves the story of not only those in the Donner Party, but their rescuers as well. An incredible and very graphic story of courage and the will to live.  Not for the squeamish.]]></body>
    
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