Three Countries, Three Cultures, One Wish They all want to belongsomewhere, to someone. Okot (pronounced "Oh-Coat") Deng knew no other world than the African savannah where his Dinka tribesmen lived a peaceful existenceuntil he was captured and sold as a slave to the owner of a Virginia tobacco plantation. His hatred for white men and their God grows as he is punished and starved, until he knows he must be free or die. Can he find a home with other runaways in Upper Canada? Chipagawana is the proud son of Onondaga Chief Thunder Arm. He lives for the day when he will take his place beside his brothers as a brave of his tribe. He has learned to hate white man, whose whisky makes fools of the wisest braves, and whose God-houses anger the Great Spirit. But then he is mauled by a bear and finds himself lost in the bush, alone and dying. If he wants to get home, he needs helpfrom a white boy. Paul Brentwood is the son of a circuit preacher who left England to bring Gods Word to the Iroquois in Upper Canada. But Paul has begun to hate the Indians, who massacred his best friends family and now have ambushed his father. Lost and alone, Paul longs to know if his father is alive. But how can he find his way home through hostile Iroquois territory? The three would never have met but for a strange twist of fateor is it the hand of Providence?which brings them together in a way that changes their lives, and the lives of those around them, forever.
Categories:
- Children's Books
- Action & Adventure
Publisher : Loyal Publishing
Author : Bombay, Cal,Sharpe, Margaret
Language : English
Published :2003-05-31
Number Of Pages : 256
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 1929125410
ISBN-13 : 9781929125418
Item weight : 0.62 lb
Dimensions : 0.5 in x 2.5 in x 8.4 in
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