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A chi è rivolto
For readers who love Westerns, big landscapes and stories where a person is changed by wild country. It will also please anyone who has read Riders of the Purple Sage.
Che cos’è questo libro
The Rainbow Trail is a Western novel by Zane Grey, published in 1915. It is the sequel to his earlier book Riders of the Purple Sage, and it returns to the same hard country of southern Utah and northern Arizona. Grey wrote it when his Western stories were drawing a large public, and he had been to this land himself, with its red cliffs, deep canyons and long silences. He wanted readers to feel that land as a living force.
This is the story of John Shefford, a young minister from the East who has lost his certainty and goes west to find something to believe in. In the desert he meets riders, hidden valleys, a Navajo guide, and a search that gives his wandering a purpose. You get a love story, a test of loyalty, and a close look at a frontier where faith and power are mixed together. The first thing to understand is why a man of the church leaves his pulpit behind.
In questo riassunto
- 1A doubting minister heads for the desertFree
- 2The land tests the man who enters it
- 3A Navajo guide becomes a true friend
- 4A search gives the wandering a goal
- 5Faith, love and loyalty are the real subjects
- 6A rainbow of stone gives the book its name
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A doubting minister heads for the desert
The story begins with John Shefford, a young Eastern minister who is troubled in spirit. He has preached what he was taught, but he no longer feels sure of it. His body and mind are tired, and he feels that the pulpit has become a place where he must pretend.
So he leaves the comfortable world he knows and travels west. The Utah and Arizona country he enters is nothing like the towns and churches of his past. It is dry, wide and often dangerous, and the people who live in it have little patience for a stranger who has never worked with his hands.
This opening matters because the whole book rests on Shefford's change. Grey does not make him a hero at the start. He is gentle, thoughtful and a little lost, and the desert will ask more of him than any sermon ever did.
The reader meets the frontier through his fresh eyes. Every cliff, every waterhole and every hard rider looks strange to him, and so it looks strange and large to us. That is Grey's method: use an outsider to make the land new.
That’s 1 of 6 key points.
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Questions about Il sentiero dell’arcobaleno
What is The Rainbow Trail about?
It follows John Shefford, a doubting Eastern minister who goes to the desert of Utah and Arizona. He faces the harsh land, finds a Navajo friend and takes up a search that gives him purpose.
Is The Rainbow Trail a sequel to Riders of the Purple Sage?
Yes. Zane Grey wrote it as a follow-up in 1915, and it brings back people and places from the earlier novel. It can still be read on its own, though the first book adds depth.
Who is Nas Ta Bega in The Rainbow Trail?
Nas Ta Bega is a Navajo guide who knows the canyon country well. He becomes John Shefford's companion and friend, and he shows him the land as holy ground.
What does the rainbow mean in the title?
The rainbow stands for a distant, shining hope that is hard to reach. It also recalls the great natural stone bridge in Navajo country, which the Navajo hold sacred.
Is The Rainbow Trail hard to read?
No. The plot is a clear quest and the sentences are direct. The story moves along well.