Follow the River

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!

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

I chose to read "Follow the River" by James Alexander Thom not so much to be entertained and inspired by the story of Mary Ingles’s escape in 1755 from Indian captivity and her torturous return from the Ohio River to her family’s frontier settlement west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. I had read about......more

I absolutely loved the first 40% or so. It was full of action, suspense, drama and had me glued to the book. But then it plateaued hard. Like really hard. And stayed that way until the end. It was such an abrupt change I had a difficult time keeping my full attention on the story. So it started as a......more

This is one of the best books I've ever read. I read it once when I was a young teen, and again last year as an adult. The book stayed with me all these years. It's a true story about a young woman during the French and Indian War who witnesses much of her family and village massacred and then is ta......more