Light in the Forest - Softcover

Richter, Conrad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553234021 ISBN 13: 9780553234022

Publisher: Bantam Books, 1983

Synopsis

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Fifteen year old John Cameron Butler, kidnapped and raised by the Lenape Indians since childhood, is returned to his people under the terms of a treaty and is forced to cope with a strange and different world that is no longer his.

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From the Back Cover

"Rebellion, glowing vitality. . . . The spirit of the wild frontier. . . . An absorbing story, marked by Richter's uncanny skill in recapturing the atmosphere of the past." - The New York Times Book Review

"Memorable . . . Richter tells the story with [a] glowing passion for unspoiled nature. . . . It is impossible to doubt the detailed . . . accuracy of the picture." - New York Herald Tribune

"Good reading for anyone curious about the past of our country." - The Yale Review

From the Inside Flap

Though reared as a Lenni Lenape Indian, fifteen-year-old True Son, once called John Camera Butler, was ordered back to the white man. It was impossible for True Son to believe that his people were white and not Indian. He had learned to hate the white man. And now he learned to hate his new father, his new house, his new family. He hated the name John Butler. Where did he belong now--and where could he go?
From the Paperback edition.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0553234021
• ISBN 13: 9780553234022
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English