I’m still waiting for the day that I can sit by the pool and read. You will certainly enjoy the following books which have similar themes of. This is a great series to keep you entertained throughout the summer as you sit by the pool. You will love this list of similar books like Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati. Much adventure ensues, and I can never close one book without downloading the next, eager to see what happens next. Elizabeths ultimate destiny, here in the heart of the wilderness, lies in the odyssey to come: trials of faith and flesh, and passion born amid Nathaniels own secrets and divided soul. The heroine, Elizabeth Middleton, an educated English spinster who comes to the rugged wilderness of America to teach school marries the son of the famed Dan’l “Hawkeye” Bonner, hero of the James Fenimore Cooper classic, Last of the Mohicans. These stories take place mostly in the backwoods of upstate New York State around the turn of the 19th century, and the author addresses the delicate relationship between the Americans and the Native Americans at the time. And I love how she worked in the history of the time - I actually learned a lot about the War of 1812, which is often glossed over in high school history class. The characters were engaging, if numerous. But otherwise, I found the books delightful. Unfortunately, for my comfort level, Donati crossed the line a few times on both counts. And I certainly don’t need to read about more violent encounters. This site really is about the entire Waverly Place series, currently two novels (The Gilded Hour and Where. I’m all for a little romance, but I don’t need to know the details. Select the novel in the menu above to get started.
I’m actually kind of sad to start book #6 because I don’t want the series to end!įirst, a disclaimer. I can be a bit of a prude. I have read all but the last book in the series, and I have thoroughly enjoyed them. The Wilderness book series by Sara Donati includes books Into the Wilderness, Dawn on a Distant Shore, Lake in the Clouds, and several more. The Waverly Place series: The Gilded Hour. That night, I downloaded Into the Wilderness to my Kindle, and I was hooked by page two. Last winter, my sister-in-law recommended The Wilderness Series by Sara Donati. I read a lot of informational books on health and food, but I also love historical fiction. I guess you could say I rediscovered my love of reading and made a commitment to making time for it. Last summer I did a vacation reading series of book reviews, and ever since then I’ve been reading more and more. Series: The Wilderness Series (1) 14 Outlander Diana Gabaldon pollywannabook 11 Dragonfly in Amber Diana Gabaldon pollywannabook Christy Catherine. Such an alliance could save her father from financial ruin, but would call into question the ownership of Hidden Wolf, the mountain where Nathaniel, his father, and a small group of Native Americans live and hunt. Sara Donatis Featured Books Into the Wilderness The Gilded Hour The Endless Forest Fire Along the Sky Dawn on a Distant Shore Lake in the Clouds Queen. He is Nathaniel Bonner, also known to the Mohawk people as 'Between-Two-Lives'.ĭetermined to provide schooling for all the village children – white, black and Native American – Elizabeth is soon at odds with the slave owners, as well as her own father, who insists she marry local doctor Richard Todd. In December 1792, Elizabeth Middleton, twenty-nine years old, unmarried and fiercly independent, leaves England for a remote mountain village in the. It is December 1792 when she arrives in a cold climate unlike any she has ever experienced and meets a man unlike any she has ever encountered – a white man dressed like a Native American, tall and lean and unsettling in his honesty. When Elizabeth Middleton leaves England to join her father and brother in a remote mountain village on the edge of the New York wilderness, she does so with a strong will and an unwavering purpose: to establish a school. The first in Sara Donati's bestselling Wilderness series, this epic novel of love and adventure interweaves the fate of the Mohawk Nation with the destiny of two outsiders from different worlds.
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