Name: Follow the River
Rating: 4 (5 reviews)

James Alexander Thom

Mary Ingles was twenty-three, married, and pregnant, when Shawnee Indians invaded her peaceful Virginia settlement, killed the men and women, then took her captive. For months, she lived with them, unbroken, until she escaped, and followed a thousand mile trail to freedom--an extraordinary story of a pioneer woman who risked her life to return to her people. "From the Paperback edition.

Follow the River

Follow the river

Laura Mauler

I read it as a teenager and remember more details about it than I do for some books I read just last year. I also remember that once she escapes and makes her way back toward home the story becomes weighed down with tedious descriptions of the landscape. Many many many pages had to be skipped (is he still talking about trees? damn. is he still talking about trees? damn.) in order to make it through to the end, where we finally got the payoff that the first part of the book promised.

Michael Cowell

Jaymie Lemke

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “It takes a rare individual not only to see that history can live, but also to make it live for others. James Thom has that gift.”—The Indianapolis News Mary Ingles was twenty-three, happily married, and pregnant with her third child when Shawnee Indians invaded her peaceful Virginia settlement in 1755 and kidnapped her, leaving behind a bloody massacre. For months they held her captive. But nothing could imprison her spirit. With the rushing Ohio River as her guide, Mary Ingles walked one thousand miles through an untamed wilderness no white woman had ever seen. Her story lives on—extraordinary testimony to the indomitable strength of one pioneer woman who risked her life to return to her own people.

Follow the River

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