The Eden Hunter: A Novel - Softcover

Horack, Skip

 
9781582436098: The Eden Hunter: A Novel
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1582436096 ISBN 13: 9781582436098
Verlag: Catapult, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

In 1816, five years after being captured and sold into slavery, Kau, a pygmy tribesman, flees south into the Spanish Florida wilderness, determined to find a place where he can once again live in harmony with nature. Both haunted and driven by his memories of Africa, he embarks on an epic quest through the treacherous pinewoods, swamps, and river bottoms of the Southern frontier. He encounters renegades and thieves, traitors and mercenaries, and the dark prophetic magic of the forest before he finally finds himself within the walls of a remote fort on the Apalachicola River. There, he becomes the reluctant companion of several hundred runaway slaves once recruited by the British to fight in the War of 1812, then abandoned to fend for themselves against the American forces intent on destroying their remarkable stronghold.


Inspired by actual events, and at times both violent and beautiful, The Eden Hunter provides a fascinating glimpse at a forgotten, bloody chapter in our nation's history through the eyes of one truly remarkable hero.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Skip Horack is the author of the story collection The Southern Cross. He is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford, where he was also a Wallace Stegner Fellow. A native of Louisiana, and a graduate of Florida State University, he now lives in San Francisco.

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Verlag
Catapult
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1582436096
ISBN 13 
9781582436098
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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