Wild Life
Subtitle: A Novel
By: Molly Gloss.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: May 9, 2000
Place of publication: New York City, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction; Wilderness survival -- Fiction; Women pioneers -- Fiction; Wild men -- Fiction; Washington (State) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "It is the early 1900s and Charlotte Bridger Drummond is a thoroughly modern woman. The sole provider for her five young boys, Charlotte is a fiercely independent, freethinking woman of the West who fully embraces the scientific spirit that is sweeping the nation at the dawn of the industrial age. Thumbing her nose at convention, she dresses in men's clothes, avoids housework whenever possible, and proudly supports her family by writing popular women's adventure stories.

Ready to show off her knowledge of the local flora and fauna and have an adventure of her own, Charlotte joins a search party for a child who has disappeared in the deepwood wilderness on the border between Oregon and Washington. But when she gets lost herself, she is thrust into a mysterious world that not only tests her courage but challenges her entire concept of reality.".

"Starving and half dead from exposure, Charlotte is rescued by a band of elusive, quasi-human beasts. As she becomes a part of the creatures' extended family, Charlotte is forced to reconsider her previous notions about the differences between animals and humans, men and women, and above all, between wilderness and civilization."--BOOK JACKET.
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