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Description edit
Weaving a tapestry of fact and fiction, Sara Donati's epic novel sweeps us into another time and place...and into the heart of a forbidden affair between an unconventional Englishwoman and an American frontiersman. It is December of 1792. Elizabeth Middleton leaves her comfortable English... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Elizabeth Middleton: School teacher, abolitionist, forward thinking, feminist
- Nathaniel Bonner: Backswoodman, white man
- Richard Todd: Doctor
- Dan'l "Hawkeye" Bonner: Backswoodman, white man
- Hannah Bonner: Daughter to Nathaniel
- Judge Middleton: Father to Elizabeth
- Julian Middleton: Elizabeth's brother
- Kitty: Daughter of Reverend Weatherspoon; has no mother; and is involved with Richard Todd and Julian.
- Aunt Merriweather: Add a description of this character.
- Curiousity
- Galileo
First Sentence edit
Elizabeth Middleton, twenty-nine years old and unmarried, overly educated and excessively rational, knowing right from wrong and fancy from fact, woke in a nest of marten and fox pelts to the sight of an eagle circling overhead, and saw at once that it could not be far to Paradise.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 6 in The Wilderness Series. (standard series)
Followed by Dawn on a Distant Shore.
This is book 80 of 145 in Whitcoulls Top 100 (2011). (authoritative list)
This is book 41 of 121 in Whitcoulls Top 100 (2012). (authoritative list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Sara Donati (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1998
ISBN: 0553107364
Page Count: 705
Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1998
ISBN: 0553107364
Page Count: 705
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- Dewey: 813
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