It is December of 1792 when she arrives in a cold climate unlike any she has ever experienced. She lives between the Cascades and Puget Sound with her husband, daughter, Jimmy Dean (a Havanese), and Max and Bella (the cats).When Elizabeth Middleton, twenty-nine yars 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 unwavering purpose: to teach school. #SARA DONATI INTO THE WILDERNESS SERIES IN ORDER SERIES#She is the internationally bestselling author of the Wilderness series ( Into the Wilderness, Dawn on a Distant Shore, Lake in the Clouds, Fire Along the Sky, Queen of Swords, and The Endless Forest) as well as The Gilded Hour, the first in a new series following the descendants of characters from the Wilderness series. Since 2000 she has been writing fiction full-time, haunting the intersection where history and storytelling meet, wallowing in nineteenth-century newspapers, magazines, street maps, and academic historical research. Exemplary historical fiction." - Kirkus Reviews "Epic in scope, emotionally intense." - BookPageĪbout the Author Sara Donati is the pen name of Rosina Lippi, a former academic and tenured university professor. 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. "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 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. About the Book After Elizabeth Middleton leaves England to join her father and brother in the remote mountain village of Paradise, New York, she does so with a strong will and an unwavering purpose: to teach school.īook Synopsis Weaving a tapestry of fact and fiction, Sara Donati's epic novel sweeps us into another time and place.
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