The Light in the Forest - Softcover

Richter, Conrad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553268783 ISBN 13: 9780553268782

Publisher: Starfire, 1990

Synopsis

Four-year-old John Butler is captured by the Delaware Indians and is adopted by one of the tribes leaders. Suddenly, after 11 years among the Delaware people, he is forced to return to his original home and parents by the Boquet military expedition of 1765. But his deep love for and loyalty to his Indian parents and his cousin Half Arrow, is his reason for rejecting the white man's civilization.A fifteen-year-old white boy raised by the Lenape Indians is returned to his people under the terms of a treaty

About this title

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Starfire
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0553268783
• ISBN 13: 9780553268782
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 117