The long way home
By: Robert J. Conley
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Real people; bk. 5
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Soto, Hernando de, ca. 1500-1542 -- Fiction.; Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans -- Fiction.; Discoveries in geography -- Fiction.; Cherokee Indians -- Fiction.; Explorers -- Fiction.; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In 16th Century Florida, an Indian holy man by the name of Deadwood Lighter is captured by the Spaniards, sold into slavery and taken to Cuba. Years later his master joins De Soto's expedition to Florida and Lighter accompanies him. He escapes and rejoins his people, but finds they are not his people any more, time having wrought its changes. By the author of The Way South.