Ghost Fox [Hardcover]

James A. Houston (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1977

A novel that shares a time and place with The Last of the Mohicans, relating the experiences of a young woman caught in the fury of the French and Indian Wars. Seventeen-year-old Sarah Wells is taken from a New Hampshire farm by Abnaki Indians and renamed "Ghost Fox." Line drawings by the Author.

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JAMES A. HOUSTON (1921-2005) is the award-winning author and illustrator of many books that portray the striking landscape of the Arctic and its strong independent people. He also produced and directed documentary films and was a master designer for New York City's Steuben Glass Company. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 302 pages
• Publisher: Harcourt; 1st edition (January 1977)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 015135300X
• ISBN-13: 978-0151353002
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,122,489 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful book, my favorite, June 29, 1998

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This review is from: Ghost Fox (A Harvest Book) (Paperback)

Ghost Fox is the story of a young girl taken far from home by raiding Abnaki warriors. Living in a culture entirely alien from her own, she dreams of escape. She is taken into the tribe as a slave. After escaping and being returned to the tribe, she discovers she likes her new way of life, and that it is possible to hold a place in the tribe other than slave. She falls in love, has a child, and is taken again by English soldiers who slaughter the tribe. How she returns to her biological family, and subsequently her surviving Indian family, makes a great story.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of my favourite books!, April 24, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Ghost Fox (A Harvest Book) (Paperback)

It's an amazing saga about fear, hate, love and war. The heroine, Sarah, is abducted from her colonial home by Abnaki indians. At first she fears them but after a while she learns to understand them. I have read this book several times (both in Swedish and English) and now I have my own copy of it - and I love it!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE...., June 19, 2003

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This review is from: Ghost Fox (Hardcover)

This is a captivating story that will appeal to those who love well-written historical fiction. The author has a decided flair for epic storytelling, as the reader will be riveted to this wonderfully told tale of abduction, slavery, and love. It is the story of Sarah Wells, a seventeen year old settler from the colony of New Hampshire, who is forcibly captured by a party of Abnaki Indians, sympathetic to the French, during the time of the French and Indian Wars.

Taken to their village where she is made to live the life of a slave, Sarah develops a loving relationship with Taliwan, the gentle son of the old Abnaki Indian woman to whom she had been given in slavery. It is her relationship with Taliwan that would eventually become a pivotal one in her life.

The book is rich in the details of her life with the Abnaki, ground in the context of the times and the French and Indian Wars. It is the story of two worlds and the ways that Sarah Wells finds to straddle both. She ultimately must choose, however, one over the other. It is a choice that will eventually be a test her love.

This is an action packed story that will keep the reader turning the pages of the book until the very last. I loved this book when I first read it about twenty five years ago. In reading it again, time has not diminished this wonderfully told story.