The Great Death
By: John Smelcer.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780805081008
Subjects: Sisters -- Fiction; Survival -- Fiction; Voyages and travels -- Fiction; Orphans -- Fiction; Death -- Fiction; Epidemics -- Fiction; Indians of North America -- Alaska -- Fiction; Alaska -- History -- 1867-1959 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: As their Alaskan village's only survivors of sickness brought by white men one winter early in the twentieth century, sisters Millie, aged thirteen, and Maura, ten, make their way south in hopes of finding someone alive.