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Your session has expired. Please sign in again so you can continue to borrow titles and access your Loans, Wish list, and Holds pages. If you're still having trouble, follow these steps to sign in. Soon Lord John and Jamie are companions on the road to Ireland, a country whose dark castles hold dreadful secrets, and whose bogs hide the bones of the dead.
For Jamie Fraser, paroled prisoner-of-war in the remote Lake District, life could be worse. But his quiet existence changes when Lord John Grey shows up with a summons that will take him away from everything he loves, again.
Lord John finds himself in possession of a packet of documents that exposes a damning case of corruption against a British officer. Soon Lord John and Jamie are unwilling companions on the road to Ireland. Historical mystery. A Common Man's Survival After Being Captured at the Battle of Dunbar and Sold into Servitude in America In the winter of , one hundred fifty ragged and hungry Scottish prisoners of war arrived at Massachusetts Bay Colony, where they were sold as indentured laborers for 20 to 30 pounds each.
Among them was Thomas Doughty, a common foot soldier who had survived the Battle of Dunbar, a forced marched of miles without food or water, imprisonment in Durham Cathedral, and a difficult Atlantic crossing.
An ordinary individual who experienced extraordinary events, Doughty was among some Scottish soldiers who were captured during the War of the Three Kingdoms, transported to America, and sold between and Their experiences offer a fresh perspective on seventeenth--century life.
The Involuntary American: A Scottish Prisoner's Journey to the New World by Carol Gardner describes Doughty's life as a soldier, prisoner of war, exile, servant, lumberman, miller, and ultimately free landowner. It follows him and his peers through critical events: the apex of the Little Ice Age, the War of the Three Kingdoms, the colonization of New England, the burgeoning transatlantic trade in servants and slaves, King Philip's and King William's wars, and the Salem witch crisis.
First-person accounts of individuals who lived through those events--Scottish, English, Puritan, Native American, wealthy, poor, working class, educated or not-- provide rich period detail and a variety of perspectives. The Involuntary American demonstrates how even indi-viduals of humble circumstances were swept into the mael-strom of the First Global Age.
It expands our understanding of immigration to the colonies, colonial servitude, the link-ages and tensions between Europe, Massachusetts Bay, and America's northeastern frontier, and of New England socie-ty in the early colonial period. Claire Randall is a British ex-combat nurse on a postwar second honeymoon with her husband in the Scottish Highlands.
Walking alone one afternoon, she passes through a circle of standing stones and is hurled back in time to a Scotland simmering with war in the year of our Lord Thus begins a series of unrivaled storytelling that has become a modern classic. The pages practically turn themselves. Her use of historical detail and a truly adult love story confirm Gabaldon as a superior writer. From the international bestselling author of the Outlander series, the terrific new novel featuring the ever-popular Lord John.
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