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Bezig met laden... The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion (1707)door John Williams
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Fair for its age, "S & E Kingsbury Book June 1819" "LM Boltwood" John Williams, well known gentleman, was a New England Puritan minister of the same generation as Cotton Mather (Salem Witch Trials). In 1704, in the frontier town of Deerfield, Williams and family (and 60+ others) were taken captive by Mohawk Indians and pressed into a forced march through the wilderness ultimately to Quebec. Stragglers were killed on the spot, usually with a quick chop to the head. His account is as brutal as it is proper in that 18th century way. The book was very popular in its day going through many editions and later was an inspiration for Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans. The edition I read is from 1908, available on Internet Archive. It contains a fascinating Appendix giving a detailed chronology of all the deaths that occurred in and around Deerfield over the years, each one a miniature story of conflict small and large in an alien yet familiar world. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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