Caleb's Crossing - Geraldine Brooks - Other - Blackstone Audiobooks - 9781441790217 - May 3, 2011
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Caleb's Crossing

Geraldine Brooks

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Caleb's Crossing

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.

Media Other     N/A   (Unknown format)
Released May 3, 2011
ISBN13 9781441790217
Label Blackstone Audiobooks
Dimensions 137 × 185 × 25 mm   ·   181 g
Language English  

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