Follow the River: A Novel

Follow the River: A Novel

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
• Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345338545

<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER € €œIt takes a rare individual not only to see that history can live, but also to make it live for others. James Thom has that gift.€€"<i>The Indianapolis News</i></b><br><br>Mary Ingles was twenty-three, happily married, and pregnant with her third child when Shawnee Indians invaded her peaceful Virginia settlement in 1755 and kidnapped her, leaving behind a bloody massacre. For months they held her captive. But nothing could imprison her spirit.<br><br>With the rushing Ohio River as her guide, Mary Ingles walked one thousand miles through an untamed wilderness no white woman had ever seen. Her story lives on€"extraordinary testimony to the indomitable strength of one pioneer woman who risked her life to return to her own people.