Algonquin
April 2016
On Sale: April 5, 2016
Featuring: Jonah Williams
ISBN: 1565126270 EAN: 9781565126275 Kindle: B013JBH89C Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
In his latest historical novel, bestselling author Robert
Morgan brings to full and vivid life the story of Jonah
Williams, who, in 1850, on his eighteenth birthday, flees
the South Carolina plantation on which he was born a slave.
He takes with him only a few stolen coins, a knife, and the
clothes on his back--no shoes, no map, no clear idea of
where to head, except north, following a star that he prays
will be his guide.
Hiding during the day and running
through the night, Jonah must elude the men sent to capture
him and the bounty hunters out to claim the reward on his
head. There is one person, however, who, once on his trail,
never lets him fully out of sight: Angel, herself a slave,
yet with a remarkably free spirit.
In Jonah, she
sees her own way to freedom, and so sets out to follow
him.
Bristling with breathtaking adventure,
Chasing the North Star is deftly grounded in
historical fact yet always gripping and poignant as the
story follows Jonah and Angel through the close calls and
narrow escapes of a fearsome world. It is a celebration of
the power of the human spirit to persevere in the face of
great adversity. And it is Robert Morgan at his considerable
best.
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