Determined not to sell, her father tries to persuade Elizabeth to marry Dr. There is a dispute over the land on which Paradise, the community Elizabeth’s father founded, is built, and the Mahicans want to buy back Hidden Wolf Mountain from Judge Middleton. To him, she appears to be the kind of woman a man should have by his side. He doesn’t care that English society has placed her on the shelf. Nathaniel is handsome, intelligent, sexy, and admires Elizabeth for the very traits for which her own culture has virtually ostracized her. While her father and brother want her to marry well-to-do doctor Richard Todd, Elizabeth finds herself attracted to Mohawk-raised Nathaniel Bonner, a white man who’s Mahican (Mohican) wife died several years ago, and who finds Elizabeth a woman worth noting. The premise of the story rests with educated, independent, feisty, purposeful spinster Elizabeth Middleton, who has recently arrived in 1792 New York state, intending to open a school which will offer an education to the settlement’s children of all races – white, black, Indian. So how does a reviewer evaluate a historical that’s being marketed as a romance? As a historical, however, it succeeds rather well. So, is this novel a romance at all, or is it more historical fiction with a love story interwoven within? Thus my confusion. While most full-length historical romance novels total around 120,000 words (give or take), Into The Wilderness is a whopping 355,000 words (give or take), making it 3-times longer than the average romance you will read this month. It is on characters introduced in The Last of the Mohicans that Sara Donati has based her ambitious first novel. Such, it seems, is Into The Wilderness, and I don’t mean that as an insult.
They were lengthy, flowery in their verbiage, slow-moving in their action, and filled with protracted descriptions intended to decorate the reader/listener’s head with images. Books of this ilk were often meant to be read aloud, before the hearth, for the benefit of the entire family. An audience where its readers lived in isolation, far apart from neighbors, who had long evenings to fill with some kind of entertaining distraction. It was written for a different readership, one without television, movies, radio, often without newspapers or access to many books. Have you read James Fenimore Cooper’s, The Last of the Mohicans? Voluntarily? Or did you study only parts of it in the tenth grade, as I did? This classic piece of American literature is from a far different era, one we today would not recognize. But, if you’re willing to stay with me here, I’m willing to take a stab at it. We hope they will enrich your experience of this mesmerizing novel.I frankly don’t know what to say about this book. The questions and discussion topics that follow are intended to enhance your reading of Sara Donati’s Into the Wilderness. A saga of adventurous new beginnings, Into the Wilderness is a breathtaking journey through the heart and soul of one couple’s epic fate-and the destiny of a young nation. Soon Elizabeth realizes that Nathaniel is the only match for her. The only man who seems to speak the truth to her is Nathaniel Bonner, a fiery outsider known to the Mohawk people as Between-Two-Lives. Elizabeth has always treasured her independence, valuing her freedom and integrity above all else. He has a scheme to give Elizabeth substantial property-if she agrees to marry Richard Todd, a man to whom he owes substantial debts.
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Into the Wilderness takes us to late eighteenth-century America, where Elizabeth Middleton arrives from England to fulfill her dream of creating a schoolhouse, serving all the children of a remote New York mountain village, regardless of sex or skin color. Capturing the imagination of readers worldwide, the novels of Sara Donati bring to life compelling chapters in history, woven with tales of courage and passionate devotion.
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