"My favorite kind of book is the sort you live in, rather than read. Exemplary historical fiction." - Kirkus Reviews "Epic in scope, emotionally intense." - BookPage This book delivers on that promise." -Amanda Quick "A beautiful tale of both romance and survival.Here is the beauty as well as the savagery of the wilderness and, at the core of it all, the compelling story of the love of a man and a woman, both for the untamed land and for one another." -Allan W. I can think of no better adventure than to explore the wilderness in the company of such engaging and independent lovers as Elizabeth and her Nathaniel." -Diana Gabaldon "Each time you open a book you hope to discover a story that will make your spirit of adventure and romance sing. Into the Wilderness is one of those rare stories that let you breathe the air of another time, and leave your footprints on the snow of a wild, strange place. ![]() Praise for Into the Wilderness "My favorite kind of book is the sort you live in, rather than read. Interweaving the fate of the Mohawk Nation with the destiny of two lovers, Sara Donati's compelling novel creates a complex, profound, passionate portait of an emerging America. ![]() Determined to provide schooling for all the children of the village, Elizabeth soon finds herself locked in conflict with the local slave owners as well as with her own family. And she meets a man unlike any she has ever encountered-a white man dressed like a Native American: Nathaniel Bonner, known to the Mohawk people as Between-Two-Lives. It is a place unlike any she has ever experienced. Elizabeth Middleton leaves her comfortable English estate to join her family in a remote New York mountain village. and into a breathtaking story of love and survival in a land of savage beauty. As the judge brings pressure to bear against his daughter, she is faced with a choice between compliance and deception, a flight into the forest, and a desire that will bend her hard will to compromise and transformation.Weaving a tapestry of fact and fiction, Sara Donati's epic novel sweeps us into another time and place. Judge Middleton plans to marry Elizabeth to local doctor Richard Todd. He is Nathaniel Bonner, also known to the Mohawk people as Between-Two-Lives.ĭetermined to provide schooling for all the children of the village, Elizabeth soon finds herself at odds with the local slave owners as well as her own father. ![]() ![]() And she meets a man different from any she has ever encountered-a white man dressed like a Native American, tall and lean and unsettling in his blunt honesty. It is December 1792 when she arrives in a cold climate unlike any she has ever experienced. When Elizabeth Middleton, twenty-nine years old and unmarried, leaves her Aunt Merriweather's comfortable English estate to join her father and brother in the remote mountain village of Paradise on the edge of the New York wilderness, she does so with a strong will and an unwavering purpose: to teach school. Here is an epic of romance and history that will captivate readers from the very first page. Weaving a vibrant tapestry of fact and fiction, Into the Wilderness sweeps us into another time and place.and into the heart of a forbidden, incandescent affair between a spinster Englishwoman and an American frontiersman. Inside, there is bumping to the spine and a dry crack between the front endpaper and the title page however the rest of the book is tightly bound and the pages are clean and unmarked. Into the Wilderness by Sara Donatiis a 692-page hardcover published by Bantam Books, 1998.
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