Flight of the sparrow
Subtitle: a novel of early America
By: Amy Belding Brown
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780451466693
Subjects: Indian captivities; Fiction; History
Description: A historical novel based on the life of Mary Rowlandson. Even before she was captured by Indians on a winter day of violence and terror, Mary Rowlandson  sometimes found herself in conflict with her rigid Puritan community. Now, her home destroyed, her children lost to her, she has been sold into the service of a powerful woman tribal leader and made a pawn in the ongoing bloody struggle between English settlers and native people. Battling cold, hunger, and exhaustion, Mary witnesses harrowing brutality but also unexpected kindness. To her confused surprise, she is drawn to her captors' open and straightforward way of life.