num_pages: 876
description: Weaving a tapestry of fact and fiction, Sara Donati's epic novel sweeps us into another time and place...and into the heart of a forbidden affair between an unconventional Englishwoman and an American frontiersman.It is December of 1792. Elizabeth Middleton leaves her comfortable English estate to join her family in a remote New York mountain village. It is a place unlike any she has ever experienced.  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. Determined to provide schooling for all the children of the village, she soon finds herself locked in conflict with the local slave owners as well as her own family.Interweaving the fate of the Mohawk Nation with the destiny of two lovers, Sara Donati's compelling novel creates a complex, profound, passionate portrait of an emerging America.
language: English
title: Into the Wilderness
titlecomplete: Into the Wilderness
characters: Julian Middleton, Elizabeth Middleton, Alfred Middleton, Richard Todd, Hannah Bonner, Runs-from-Bears, Robbie MacLachlan, Nathaniel Bonner, Chingachgook, Dan'l Bonner, Kitty Witherspoon, Falling-Day, Many-Doves
genres: Adventure, Audiobook, Historical, Historical Fiction, Adult Fiction, 18th Century, Historical Romance, Adult, Romance, Fiction
ratings_count: 40385
series: Wilderness
publisher: Bantam