Dawn's Early Light
by:
Elswyth Thane (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780553225815 (0553225812)
Publish date: September 28th 1982
Publisher: Bantam Books
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Series: Williamsburg (#1)
What a good book! It's been a while since I've read an older book like this and I think I had been missing this style of writing, where the merit is based on the writing as much as the story (these days I've been focusing solely on the story).The book is packed with history. At times it did feel lik...
12/2012 ** I first read this book more than 30 years ago when I was in middle or high school. It's historical fiction about a family living in Colonial Williamsburg in the decade before and during the American Revolution. To make the series more interesting, its copyright is 1943, so has an intere...
Julian Day arrives in Williamsburg, Virginia in 1774. His father died on the voyage, but Julian soon makes friends including the Sprague family who take him under their wing. JuliaN finds himself torn between his loyalty to King George and his new friends who want freedom from the crown at all costs...