Escape across the wide sea
By: Katherine Kirkpatrick.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Huguenots -- Juvenile fiction.; Huguenots -- Fiction.; Voyages and travels -- Fiction.; Slavery -- Fiction.; New Rochelle (N.Y.) -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: After escaping religious persecution in France in 1686, a young Huguenot boy and his parents travel on a slave ship to West Africa, then to the Caribbean, and finally to New York, where they help found the town of New Rochelle.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-207).