Into the wilderness book review series#

Despite her father's attempts to marry her off to a wealthy landowner and the village doctor, Richard Todd, she gravitates towards Nathaniel in defiance of her father, who has his own reasons for wanting to marry her off to Dr. There, she meets Hawkeye's son, handsome backwoods man Nathaniel Bonner, a man who straddles two worlds, that of the white man and that of the native American, and finds herself falling head-over-heels in love with him.

An independent and outspoken, intelligent Englishwoman in her twenties, Elizabeth Middleton, leaves England with her brother Julian, to join their father, Judge Alfred Middleton, in the mountains of upstate New York, northwest of Albany. Moreover, the author also incorporates James Fennimore Cooper's character 'Hawkeye' from his book, 'The Last of the Mohicans', adding to the intriguing pastiche of characters, historical, literary, and imaginative, who pepper this book.The book is simple in its premise.

Into the wilderness book review series#

Gabaldon's best selling 'Outlander' series make a brief appearance nearly midway through this book. Gabaldon, there can be little doubt, as the two main characters in Ms. Moreover, that its author is herself a fan of Ms. It should be noted that Diana Gabaldon herself has warmly endorsed this book. Those readers who have enjoyed the enormously popular 'Outlander' series of novels by author Diana Gabaldon will especially enjoy this book. This is a novel that will appeal to those who love rousing historical fiction that carries with it a sense of teeming and timeless adventure. It is a story woven from the gossamer threads of history and infused with the creativity of this author, so as to produce an utterly spellbinding and ambitious, sweeping epic novel. It is a riveting, page-turning work of well-written historical fiction. Fans of Diana Gabaldon will want to watch for a cameo appearance by one of the characters of Gabaldon's stunning Outlander series.This novel is the first in a series of three such novels published to date. Although the book is long-nearly 700 words-tight pacing makes it an entertaining read. Elizabeth and Nathaniel are well-rounded and intelligent characters, and the secondary characters are also strong, three-dimensional, and often entertainingly quirky. Into the Wilderness is an intelligent and beautifully written historical novel that draws the reader into another world. Meanwhile, the attraction between her and Nathaniel grows into a love that only adds to the conflict between the whites and the Indians. The backwoodsmen and their Indian friends accept her and respect her opinions, and she soon finds herself siding with their claim to Hidden Wolf. Knowing Richard's main interest in her is her land, Elizabeth resists his attentions as she gets to know Nathaniel and his people. Her father, fearful that the sale of Hidden Wolf to the Mahicans will bring more Indians back to Paradise, favors Richard.

She soon finds herself caught between Nathaniel and the Mahicans, who want to buy back the mountain from her father as part of their hunting grounds, and Richard, who wants the land for himself and sees Elizabeth as the route to it. Nathaniel's connection to the Mohican (Mahican) people is a strong one he considers Hawkeye's adoptive father, Chingachgook, his grandfather, and his own wife was a Mahican woman who died in childbirth several years earlier.Д®lizabeth learns from her father that her inheritance is a part of his lands, a mountain known as Hidden Wolf, to be granted to her when she marries. Though Elizabeth has no intention to marry, she is immediately drawn, not to Richard, but to backwoodsman Nathaniel Bonner, son of Dan'l 'Hawkeye' Bonner, hero of the James Fenimore Cooper classic. It is his intention to find her a husband, preferably the well-respected physician, Richard Todd. Her widowed father has promised Elizabeth that she can become the schoolteacher for the local children, but on her arrival at Paradise, her father's property, she learns that he has brought her to America under false pretenses. In this ambitious and vibrant sequel to The Last of the Mohicans, Elizabeth Middleton, a well-educated spinster of 29, journeys from her home in England to her father's lands in upstate New York in 1792.