Ghost Fox
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded, (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Set against the violent backdrop of eighteenth-century colonial New England, Ghost Fox chronicles the harrowing ordeal of Sarah Wells, a young woman captured by an Abenaki war party and forced to endure a brutal journey deep into the wilderness. James Houston draws on his unparalleled knowledge of Indigenous cultures and the natural world to craft a narrative that pulses with tension, authenticity, and raw human resilience. The novel immerses the reader in a world where survival depends on understanding the land, the enemy, and the fragile boundaries between two irreconcilably different civilisations. Houston's prose carries the stark, elemental quality of the frontier itself — spare yet vivid, never flinching from the realities of captivity, cultural clash, and the enduring will to survive. Long celebrated for his intimate portrayals of North American Indigenous life, Houston here turns his lens on the collision between colonial settlers and Native peoples with a novelist's empathy and an anthropologist's precision. Ghost Fox stands as a gripping testament to the human spirit at its most tested — one that will leave the reader questioning where civilisation truly begins and ends.
Author: James Houston
Format: Hardback
Published: 1977, Collins
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded, (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Set against the violent backdrop of eighteenth-century colonial New England, Ghost Fox chronicles the harrowing ordeal of Sarah Wells, a young woman captured by an Abenaki war party and forced to endure a brutal journey deep into the wilderness. James Houston draws on his unparalleled knowledge of Indigenous cultures and the natural world to craft a narrative that pulses with tension, authenticity, and raw human resilience. The novel immerses the reader in a world where survival depends on understanding the land, the enemy, and the fragile boundaries between two irreconcilably different civilisations. Houston's prose carries the stark, elemental quality of the frontier itself — spare yet vivid, never flinching from the realities of captivity, cultural clash, and the enduring will to survive. Long celebrated for his intimate portrayals of North American Indigenous life, Houston here turns his lens on the collision between colonial settlers and Native peoples with a novelist's empathy and an anthropologist's precision. Ghost Fox stands as a gripping testament to the human spirit at its most tested — one that will leave the reader questioning where civilisation truly begins and ends.