Follow the River

Name: Follow the River
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.17 (12 reviews)
Author: James Alexander Thom
ISBN: 9781400189977

Author: James Alexander Thom

Narrator: David Drummond

Unabridged: 16 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/14/2010

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

Mary Ingles was twenty-three, happily married, and pregnant with her third child when Shawnee Indians invaded her peaceful Virginia settlement in 1755 and kidnapped her, leaving behind a bloody massacre. For months they held her captive. But nothing could imprison her spirit.

With the rushing Ohio River as her guide, Mary Ingles walked one thousand miles through an untamed wilderness no white woman had ever seen. Her story lives on—extraordinary testimony to the indomitable strength of one pioneer woman who risked her life to return to her own people.

About James Alexander Thom

James Alexander Thom was a U.S. Marine, a newspaper and magazine editor, and a member of the faculty at the Indiana University Journalism School. He is the acclaimed author of Long Knife, From Sea to Shining Sea, The Children of First Man, The Red Heart, Sign-Talker, and Panther in the Sky, for which he won the prestigious Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Historical Novel. He lives in the Indiana hill country near Bloomington with his wife, Dark Rain, of the Shawnee Nation, United Remnant Band.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Sharon on 2008-11-10 18:46:59

Thom is certainly the best writer of native american culture and history. The struggles of this incredible woman, MaryIngles, against all odds,are told in wonderful realism. We follow her along the river as every day becomes a fight for survival in her determination to return home...great book!

Goodreads review by Anne

I found this book incredibly interesting. The amount of research author Jim Thom put into this novel almost reveals an obsession he must have had with the harrowing experience of Mary Draper Ingles. I was educated at a very young age by my archaeologist father about the early settlements of this reg......more