Kurzbeschreibung von: Astoria

Washington Irving (1783 - 1859) was an American author known for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. Irving was also an essayist, historian and biographer. Irving was the first American writer to gain fame in Europe. Irving achieved international fame with the publication of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon in 1819. Irving used the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon on several occasions. Astoria Or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains is one of the most famous books ever written about the Pacific Coast, the story of John Jacob Astor, the German fur trader who died with a fortune over $20,000,000. Astoria is full of adventures and anecdotes, danger and conflict, action and history.