The Awakening Land: I. The Trees; II. The Fields; III. The Town

The Awakening Land: I. The Trees; II. The Fields; III. The Town
ISBN-10
0394417038
ISBN-13
9780394417035
Category
Fiction / General
Pages
630
Language
English
Published
1966
Publisher
Knopf
Author
Conrad Richter

Description

As a small girl, Sayward Wheeler and her family walk from Pennsylvania to the wilderness of the Ohio valley where they suffer many hardships and witness the rapid development of the area.

Other editions

Similar books

  • THE TREES
    By Conrad Richter

    Here is the true American epic. Here is the raw adventure, swift and cruel in its episodes; but here too is the poetry of loneliness. Here is a portrait of frontier life as it really must have seemed to the pioneers.

  • The Fields
    By Conrad Richter

    Of this second novel in Conrad Richter’s great trilogy, Louis Bromfield wrote: “The Fields continues the life of Sayward after her strange marriage to the ‘educated’ New Englander Portious, through the raising of their family of ...

  • The Town
    By Conrad Richter

    The Town is part of the The Awakening Land trilogy, which traces the transformation of Ohio from wilderness to farmland to the site of modern industrial civilization, all in the lifetime of one character.

  • The Awakening: The Dragon Heart Legacy, Book 1
    By Nora Roberts

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts begins a new trilogy of adventure, romance, and magick in The Awakening.

  • The Trees
    By Conrad Richter

    Here, in the first novel of Conrad Richter's Awakening Land trilogy, the Lucketts, a wild, woods-faring family, lived their roaming life, pushing ever westward as the frontier advanced and as new settlements threatened their isolation.

  • The Awakening
    By Kate Chopin

    With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Awakening is both modern and readable.

  • Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England
    By Douglas L. Winiarski

    George Whitefield's departure from New England in October 1740 left Nathan Cole in near despair. Soon thereafter, Cole later explained in his “Spiritual Travels,” “I began to think I was not Elected.” For nearly a year he was beset by ...

  • The Light in the Forest
    By Conrad Richter

    A fifteen-year-old white boy raised by the Lenape Indians is returned to his people under the terms of a treaty.