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Author:

Iagnemma, Karl.

Title:

The expeditions / Karl Iagnemma.

Publisher:

Dial Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

322 p. : map ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Fathers and sons--Fiction.
Children of clergy--Fiction.
Runaway teenagers--Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life--Michigan--Fiction.
Widowers--Fiction.
Scientific expeditions--Fiction.
United States--History--1815-1861--Fiction.
Detroit (Mich.)--Fiction.
Michigan--Fiction.
Upper Peninsula (Mich.)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Adventure fiction.

Summary:

The year is 1844. Sixteen-year-old runaway Elisha Stone has turned up in Detroit, a hardscrabble frontier town on the edge of the civilized world. A canny survivor with the instincts of a born naturalist, Elisha signs on to an expedition into Michigan's vast, uncharted Upper Peninsula. The party is led by two charismatic adventurers: Silas Brush, a ruthless, land-grabbing ex-soldier, and George Tiffin, a quixotic professor desperate to discover proof of his unorthodox theories about the origins of man. On the eve of the expedition's departure, Elisha pens a heartfelt letter to his mother in Newell, Massachusetts. But it is Elisha's estranged father, the Reverend William Edward Stone, who opens the envelope. Grief-stricken by the recent death of his wife--a death Elisha could not have known about--Reverend Stone is jolted into action: he must find his son.

ISBN:

0385335954
9780385335959

LCCN:

2007018324

Locations:

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

RZPE145 -- Carroll Public Library (Carroll)

BBPC251 -- Roy R. Estle Memorial Library (Dallas Center)

ETPD745 -- Emmetsburg Public Library (Emmetsburg)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

NOPA983 -- Grafton Public Library (Grafton)

DJPD353 -- Hampton Public Library (Hampton)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

D8PD522 -- North Liberty Community Library (North Liberty)

CQPE926 -- Washington Free Public Library (Washington)