David Farland is an award-winning, international bestselling author with over 50 novels in print. He has won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Special Award for “Best Novel in the English Language” for his science fiction novel On My Way to Paradise, the Whitney Award for “Best Novel of the Year” for his historical novel In the Company of Angels, and many more awards for his work. Dave Farland’s moving masterpiece echoes the drama of Gone with the Wind and the glory of Ghandi, sweeping from the green fields of Denmark to the icy peaks of the Rockies in a saga that elevates and enriches those that it touches. In the Company of Angels centers on Eliza Gadd, the feisty, sophisticated wife of a Mormon Bishop. When her husband answers his leader’s call to abandon his cottage in /5(7). Best-seller and Winner of the Whitney Award for Best Novel of the Year! In , a forty-year-old mother of twins named Eliza Gadd set off with nine-year-old Bodil Mortensen and more than three hundred immigrants to cross the American wilderness. In a bold experiment, they hoped to pull everything they owned in handcarts. They knew that they'd started far too late in the summer. They didn't.
In the Company of Angels by David Farland is excellent on many levels. Farland has carefully researched the eyewitness accounts, actual locations, and plentiful scholarship about the Willie Handcart Company to create a fascinating account of this complex event in our country's history. the company as you follow three of its members in a moving masterpiece that will take you from the green fields of Denmark to the icy peaks of the Rockies in a saga that elevates and enriches those that it touches. In the Company of Angels - David Farland - The Willie Handcart Company of was a trial and a miracle. You will feel apart. He served at times as mayor and postmaster of the town. In , Willie founded the first Sunday School in Mendon. He also served as a counselor in the bishopric and ran a co-operative store. Willie has been fictionalized in many books, including In the Company of Angels by David Farland. James G. Willie died on 09 Sept
In his book "In the Company of Angels" David Farland takes the reader on a journey as members of the Willy Handcart Company through the trials as they cross the planes in their trek to Zion. The story brings out a lot of emotion, from Anger at the way the saints were treated, to the fear of Indian attacks on the sorrow as family members are lost. David Farland’s moving masterpiece echoes the drama of Gone with the Wind and the glory of Ghandi, sweeping from the green fields of Denmark to the icy peaks of the Rockies in a saga that elevates and enriches those that it touches. In the Company of Angels tells the story of three people Eliza Gadd, Captain James Willie, and Baline Mortensen. In his book “In the Company of Angels” David Farland takes the reader on a journey as members of the Willy Handcart Company through the trials as they cross the planes in their trek to Zion. The story brings out a lot of emotion, from Anger at the way the saints were treated, to the fear of Indian attacks on the sorrow as family members are lost.
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