The Red Heart

James Alexander Thom

ISBN 10: 0345390040 / ISBN 13: 9780345390042

Published by Ballantine Books, NY, 1997

About this Item

454 pp, the book and contents are very clean and solid, the author has penned and signed a short inscription on the second front free endpaper, the dust jacket has virtually no wear and some very light scuffing, a very nice INSCRIBED copy of this tale about early Indiana frontier.

Seller Inventory # 006891

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Red Heart
• Publisher: Ballantine Books, NY
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345390040
• ISBN 13: 9780345390042
• Binding: Cloth and Paper Covered Boards
• Condition: VG
• Dust Jacket Condition: VG-
• Signed: Author Signed Inscription

About this title

Synopsis

Abducted during the Revolutionary War by the Lenape, five-year-old Frances Slocum is transformed into Maconakwa, the Little Bear Woman of the Miami Indians, and grows up among her adoptive tribe, in a historical novel based on the real-life experiences of Frances Slocum.

About the Author

James Alexander Thom lives in the Indiana hill country near Bloomington with his wife, Dark Rain of the Shawnee Nation, United Remnant Band. He has been a U.S. Marine, a newspaper and magazine editor, and a member of the faculty at the Indiana University Journalism School. Thom is the author of Follow the River, Long Knife, From Sea to Shining Sea, Panther in the Sky, for which he won the prestigious Western Writers of America Spur award for best historical novel, and The Children of First Man.