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La Natura Selvaggia

Questa serie immerge i lettori nella bellezza selvaggia della natura americana alla fine del XVIII secolo. Segui i viaggi di donne coraggiose che lasciano alle spalle le comodità d'Europa per forgiare nuove vite in una terra di splendore selvaggio. Queste storie intrecciano temi di amore, sopravvivenza e incontri culturali, incluso il destino della Nazione Mohawk. È un ritratto appassionato e profondo di un'America emergente, ricco di dettagli storici e personaggi avvincenti.

The Endless Forest
Queen of Swords
Fire Along the Sky
Lake in the Clouds
Dawn on a Distant Shore
Into the Wilderness

Ordine di lettura consigliato

  1. Into the Wilderness

    • 876pagine
    • 31 ore di lettura

    Weaving a tapestry of fact and fiction, Sara Donati's epic novel sweeps us into another time and place...and into the heart of a forbidden affair between an unconventional Englishwoman and an American frontiersman.It is December of 1792. Elizabeth Middleton leaves her comfortable English estate to join her family in a remote New York mountain village. It is a place unlike any she has ever experienced. And she meets a man unlike any she has ever encountered - a white man dressed like a Native American, Nathanial Booner, known to the Mohawk people as Between-Two-Lives. Determined to provide schooling for all the children of the village, she soons finds herself locked in conflict with the local slave owners as well as her own family. Interweaving the fate of the Mohawk Nation with the destiny of two lovers, Sara Donati's compelling novel creates a complex, profound, passionate portrait of an emerging America.

    Into the Wilderness1
    4,1
  2. Lake in the Clouds

    • 624pagine
    • 22 ore di lettura

    The third novel in the Wilderness series finds the Bonner family back home in the North American frontier.

    Lake in the Clouds3
    4,4
  3. In 1812, Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner mark the return of Nathaniel's daughter Hannah, while her half-brother Daniel joins the militia and his twin, Lily, falls in love with a dark and dangerous stranger, in a continuation of the saga of the Bonner family in early America

    Fire Along the Sky4
    4,3
  4. The fifth book in Sara Donati's excellent series is a departure from the main characters of Nathaniel and Elizabeth, focusing instead on Hannah Bonner, Luke Bonner, and his wife Jennet and their trials after the abduction of Jennet at the end of Book 4. Picking up with the party finding Jennet, we are thrown into the world of New Orleans as the group attempts to discover the whereabouts of the infant son of Luke and Jennet. The British are plotting to take the city but that is only one small part of the separate world the Bonners face far from home and the ones they love

    Queen of Swords5
    4,4
  5. A rich, passionate, multilayered portrayal of family strength and endurance from bestselling author Sara Donati In the spring of 1824, in the remote village of Paradise on the New York frontier, Nathaniel and Elizabeth Bonner celebrate a glorious reunion as their children return from far-off places: Lily and her husband from Italy, and Martha Kirby, the Bonners’ ward, from Manhattan. In the peace that follows a devastating flood, childhood friends Martha and Daniel, Lily’s twin brother, suddenly begin to see each other in a new light. But their growing bond is threatened when Martha’s estranged mother arrives back in Paradise. Jemima Southern is a dangerous schemer who has destroyed more than one family, and her anger touches everyone, as do her secrets. Has Jemima come to claim her daughter—or does she have other, darker motives? Whatever transpires, Martha, Daniel, and all the Bonners must stand united against the threats to both heart and home.

    The Endless Forest6
    4,5