Caleb's crossing / Geraldine Brooks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brooks, Geraldine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cheeshahteaumuck, Caleb, approximately 1646-1666--Fiction.

Cheeshahteaumuck, Caleb.

Wampanoag Indians--Massachusetts--Martha's Vineyard--Fiction.

Wampanoag Indians.

Indian college graduates--Fiction.

Indian college graduates.

Indian scholars--United States--Fiction.

Indian scholars.

Physical Description:

306 p. : map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Viking, 2011.

Summary:

In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American graduate of Harvard College. From the few facts that survive of this extraordinary life, Brooks creates a luminous tale of passion and belief, magic and adventure. When Bethia Mayfield, a spirited twelve-year-old living in the rigid confines of an English Puritan settlement-- and the daughter of a Calvanist minister-- meets Caleb, the young son of a Sampanoag chieftain, the two forge a secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. As Bethia's father feels called to convert the Wampanoag to his own strict faith, he awakens the wrath of the medicine men. Caleb becomes a prize in a contest between the old ways and new, eventually taking his place at Harvard, studying Latin and Greek alongside the sons of the colonial elite. Bethia becomes entangled in Caleb's struggle to navigate the intellectual and cultural shoals that divide their two cultures. Once again, this Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist brings to vivid life a shard of little-known history, and explores the intimate spaces of the human heart.

ISBN:

9780670021048

0670021040

OCLC:

679930983