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THE MOST ADVENTUROUS, "I'M REALLY THERE" BOOKEVER!!!, Sep 16 2003
Never have I read a book that truly made me feel the freezing winter winds, the hollow pain of an empty stomach, or the bruises and scratches that a character felt as much as I did while reading Follow The River. Thom is so intimate in his vivid writing, that you can more than just picture the image, but actually live it...even if it's not the most pleasant depiction ever! The story goes as 23yr old Mary Ingles lives a happy life in the Virginia Mountains. Comfortably she lived with her loving, dear husband, and her two little boys. She is pregnant with her third baby when they come. One July day, Mary and her children are captured by Indians, leaving behind her heart-broken husband, and a terrible, bloody and gorey massacre. For several weeks they travel, all the way up the New River/Ohio (O-Y-O)River. That's about 800miles! Poor Mary suffers terrible things in Shawnee-Town, and is traded to a Frenchman, who takes her another 2-300 miles up the river, away from home. Then, with another captive named Ghetel, she escapes one day. The rest of the book depicts the terrible, awful, merciless hardships she suffers on her 1,000 mile journey home. The way Thom wrote this book, you can feel her terrors, her cuts, the starvation, and you can even taste some pretty disgusting things she had to eat. If you can't stand the most intimate details you've ever heard of, then don't read this book, for at times it may disgust you. But, overall, I couldn't have spent a better couple of days than I did while reading this, and would highly reccommend it!
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