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Caleb's Crossing (Thorndike Core) (Large Print / Paperback)

Caleb's Crossing (Thorndike Core) Cover Image
By Geraldine Brooks
$19.79
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May 2011 Indie Next List


“Caleb's Crossing reveals how early pioneers and native inhabitants of what is now Martha's Vineyard were capable of intense friendship and a sharing of spiritual beliefs despite dissimilar backgrounds. Employing the language of the time, Brooks once again proves her prowess in this story of the education of the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Caleb, the son of a chieftain, faces criticism from his own people as well as from white society. The narrator, Bethia Mayfield, desires the same education as Caleb but is denied due to her sex. The two become lifelong friends and their story is an emotional and evocative look at a crossing of cultures.”
— Karen Briggs, Great Northern Books and Hobbies, Oscoda, MI

Description


Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure.


The narrator of Caleb's Crossing is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island's glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a tentative secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia's minister father tries to convert the Wampanoag, awakening the wrath of the tribe's shaman, against whose magic he must test his own beliefs. One of his projects becomes the education of Caleb, and a year later, Caleb is in Cambridge, studying Latin and Greek among the colonial elite. There, Bethia finds herself reluctantly indentured as a housekeeper and can closely observe Caleb's crossing of cultures.


Like Brooks's beloved narrator Anna in Year of Wonders, Bethia proves an emotionally irresistible guide to the wilds of Martha's Vineyard and the intimate spaces of the human heart. Evocative and utterly absorbing, Caleb's Crossing further establishes Brooks's place as one of our most acclaimed novelists.

Product Details
ISBN: 9781594135347
ISBN-10: 1594135347
Large Print: Yes
Publisher: Large Print Press
Publication Date: April 28th, 2012
Pages: 537
Language: English
Series: Thorndike Core
Categories
  • Literary
  • Historical - General
Related Editions (all)  
  • Kobo eBook (May 2nd, 2011): $12.99
  • Paperback (April 24th, 2012): $16.00
  • Hardcover, Large Print (May 4th, 2011): $35.99
  • Hardcover (April 1st, 2011): $38.00
  • Pre-Recorded Audio Player (May 3rd, 2011): $77.99
  • Compact Disc (May 1st, 2011): $100.00
  • Hardcover (May 3rd, 2011): $26.95
  • Paperback (May 1st, 2012): $17.75
  • Compact Disc (May 3rd, 2011): $39.95
  • MP3 CD (May 3rd, 2011): $32.95
  • Compact Disc (February 1st, 2012): $88.00
  • Paperback (April 1st, 2011): $29.00
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