The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party Audiobook (Free)

In the #1 bestselling writer of The Boys in the Boat comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival for the American frontier

“A perfect pairing of talent and materials…. Engrossing…. A deft and ambitious storyteller.” – Mary Roach, NY Times Book Review

In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, objective on a better future, lay out western from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven a few months later, after becoming a member of a party of pioneers led by George Donner, they reached the Sierra Nevada Mountains as the first weighty snows of the season closed the pass before them. In early December, starving and eager, Sarah and fourteen others set out for California on snowshoes, and, over the next thirty-two days, endured nearly unfathomable hardships and horrors.

Within this gripping narrative, NY Times bestselling author Daniel James Brown sheds new light on one of the most legendary occasions in American background. Following every painful footstep of Sarah’s journey with the Donner Party, Brown produces a tale both spellbinding and richly informative.