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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780553582796
ISBN number: 0553582798
Label: Bantam
Manufacturer: Bantam
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 672
Printing Date: April 29, 2003
Publishing house: Bantam
Release Date: April 29, 2003
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In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, award-winning writer Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilderness of late-eighteenth-century New York and the trials and triumphs of the Bonner family. Now Donati takes on a new and often overlooked chapter in our nation’s past—and in the life of the spirited Bonners—as their oldest daughter, the brave and beautiful Hannah, comes of age with a challenge that will change her forever. Masterfully told, this passionate story is a moving tribute to a resilient, adventurous family and a people poised at the brink of a new century.
It is the spring of 1802, and the village of Paradise is still reeling from the typhoid epidemic of the previous summer. Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner have lost their two-year-old son, Hannah’s half brother Robbie, but they struggle on as always: the men in the forests, the twins Lily and Daniel in Elizabeth’s school, and Hannah as a doctor in training, apprenticed to Richard Todd. Hannah is descended from healers on both sides—one Scots grandmother and one Mohawk—and her reputation as a skilled healer in her own right is growing.
After a long night spent attending to a birth, Elizabeth and Hannah encounter an escaped slave hiding on the mountain. She calls herself Selah Voyager, and she is looking for Curiosity Freeman—a former slave herself, one of the village’s wisest women and Elizabeth’s closest friend. The Bonners take Selah, desperately ill, to Lake in the Clouds to care for her, and with that simple act they are drawn into the secret life that Curiosity and Galileo Freeman and their grown children have been leading for almost ten years. The Bonners will do what they must to protect the Freemans, just as Hannah will protect her patient, who presents more than one kind of challenge. For a bounty hunter is afoot—Hannah’s childhood friend and very first love, Liam Kirby.
While Elizabeth and Nathaniel undertake a treacherous journey through the endless forests to bring Selah to safety in the north, Hannah embarks on a very different journey to New-York City, with two goals: to learn the secrets of vaccination against smallpox, a disease that threatens Paradise, and to find out what she can about Liam’s immediate past and what caused him to change so drastically from the boy she once loved. The obstacles she faces as a woman and a Mohawk make her confront questions long avoided about her place in the world.
Those questions follow her back to Paradise, where she finds that the medical miracle she brings with her will not cure prejudice or superstition, nor can it solve the problem of slavery. No sooner have the Bonners begun to rebound from their losses—old and new—than they find themselves confronted by more than one old enemy in a battle that will test the strength of their love for one another. Hannah faces the decision she has always dreaded: will she make a life for herself in a white world, or among her mother’s people?
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For anyone that wants to "get away" without having to pay for a plane ticket - this is the subsequent best thing! This series is wonderful!
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I enjoyed Hannah's story and some of the subplots in this novel which is the 3rd in the Wilderness series. Hannah is one of my favorite characters and she faces many decisions and challenges for a young lady in 1800. She has always seemed mature and confident for her age, but she really becomes an adult in this book. This story takes place in Paradise and New York city. There are some weaknesses which have been mentioned by other reviewers. It is not a perfect story and several people are killed off by an epidemic, but I still would like to continue reading the series to follow certain characters. I have never been a big fan of Elizabeth, so I am glad Ms. Donati is concentrating on other characters now. I particularly enjoy everything about the Mohawk and other Indian charachers.
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This is the third in the series by Sara Donati. All three are excellant books and she follows the story line extremely well from the beginning of the series. Having lived and grown up in the area in which the story takes place, I am familiar with locales, etc. Very well done!
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Since reading Sara Donati's Lake in the clouds i have been astounded once again with how well she can write. During reading the book I would sometimes find myself lost in the book and losing track of time. I felt like i was actually their with them. Not as one of the characters but just being around them all. At other times i would be mad as an ox at the deception of jemima southern kuick, Never knew i could want to throttle someone through a book :D. And sometimes i would nearly cry for hannah when it seemed the scarlet fever attack on the town would never end and the heartbreak that it brought her and Elizabeth back from her memeorise from when robbie died from a different sickness that hit the town a while back. Anyways any one who is going to read this book i give a huge thumbs up but you really must start from into the wilderness otherwise your going to be very confused. Beautiful work by Sara Donati canr't wait to read the 4th book and for the 5th one to come out!
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Though I know this was the third in her series, it was the very first one I've read, and I LOVED it. For me, it was accurate enough historically, regarding people's views of other people. I'm afraid I just could not become attatched to characters who looked down on others because of their ethnicity, etc. And if I don't care about the characters, the story won't interest me. It seemed to me that the "heroes" of this story tend to demonstrate many qualities to which we should all aspire; treating people fairly, whether we agree with their morals or not.
I found the story itself to be extrememly interesting and diverting. It was so wonderfully complex I don't even have the words to describe it, although I have been known to compare it to the novels of Pat Conroy, another favorite author of mine.
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