Into the Wilderness (#1 Wilderness)

Author(s): Sara Donati

Historical Fiction | Staff Picks

The first in Sara Donati's bestselling Wilderness series, this epic novel of love and adventure interweaves the fate of the Mohawk Nation with the destiny of two outsiders from different worlds. When Elizabeth Middleton leaves England to join her father and brother in a remote mountain village on the edge of the New York wilderness, she does so with a strong will and an unwavering purpose: to establish a school. It is December 1792 when she arrives in a cold climate unlike any she has ever experienced and meets a man unlike any she has ever encountered - a white man dressed like a Native American, tall and lean and unsettling in his honesty. He is Nathaniel Bonner, also known to the Mohawk people as 'Between-Two-Lives'. Determined to provide schooling for all the village children - white, black and Native American - Elizabeth is soon at odds with the slave owners, as well as her own father, who insists she marry local doctor Richard Todd. Such an alliance could save her father from financial ruin, but would call into question the ownership of Hidden Wolf, the mountain where Nathaniel, his father, and a small group of Native Americans live and hunt ...


'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' Diana Gabaldon


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Themes: Survival, Adventure, Love, Frontier times, Mohawk Nation

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. Interweaving the fate of the Mohawk Nation with the destiny of two lovers, Sara Donati's compelling novel creates a complex, profound, passionate portrait of an emerging America.

 

For readers who like: The Outlander Series, Historical Fiction & Adventure

Sara Donati, the pen name of Rosina Lippi, is the bestselling author of the Wilderness series. A native of Chicago, she lives with her husband, daughter, and various pets between Bellingham Bay and the Cascade Mountains in the Pacific Northwest.

General Fields

  • : 9780857989772
  • : Random House Australia
  • : Vintage (Australia)
  • : January 2015
  • : Australia
  • : July 2015
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Sara Donati
  • : Paperback
  • : 715
  • : en
  • : 912