Abbotts Reach

Ardeana Hamlin

Description

A gripping tale of adventure and romance set in 19th century Maine, Abbott's Reach follows the rebellious "M" on her honeymoon voyage with her sea captain husband from coastal Maine around Cape Horn, to Hawaii, and back home to Maine. This is the long-awaited sequel to Hamlin's popular Pink Chimneys.

Sujets

• Historical fiction

Informations

• Publié par: Islandport Press
• Date de parution: 12 avril 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781934031568
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Abbott’s Reach

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I S L A N D P O RT P R E S S Y A R M O U T H • M A I N E

Islandport Press P.O. Box 10 Yarmouth, Maine 04096 www.islandportpress.com [e-mail]

Copyright © 2011 by Ardeana Hamlin

All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A.

First Islandport Press Edition, February 2011

ISBN: 978-1-934031-56-8 Library of Congress Card Number: 2010937802

Book jacket design by Karen F. Hoots / Hoots Design Book design by Michelle A. Lunt / Islandport Press Publisher Dean L. Lunt

For my parents, Ruth Herrick Hamlin and Floyd Hamlin, who taught me how to speak in stories.

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Table of Contents

Prologue page ix

Part 1 Alongshore page 1

Part 2 At Sea page 115

Part 3 Hawaii page 155

Part 4 At Sea Again page 217

Part 5 Alongshore Again page 239

Epilogue page 277

About the Author page 281

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Prologue

We pass this way but once in the world—or so it is said. But it can be argued that in our wake we leave hints and clues, rumors that define our paths long after we are gone from this Earth.The byways of the past echo with the stories of long ago, seeking hearts open enough to hear them. Those vibrations haunt the shores of the Penobscot River from Bangor to Searsport, Maine, emanating from names etched on the gravestones in shady cemeteries, contained in the brittle pages of leather-bound diaries, folded into yellowed envelopes addressed in copperplate script, and limned in the graceful architectural details of old houses lining the streets of villages situated along the river. Stand on the riverbank on a sweet spring day, or when a spell of deep cold has hardened the river to ice. Listen.The voices of the past speak in the rustle of the leaves, the glitter of sun on snow, the breath of the wind. And so it was with the notorious house in Bangor known as Pink Chimneys and the characters that came to inhabit it.The story began in 1814 in Bangor, when the British invaded the Penobscot region. Maude Richmond, the teenage daughter of Dr. Eli Richmond, feared for her father’s safety when he traveled to Hampden, where a battle was to take place against the British. Her father had instructed her to answer any calls for medical help that came in his absence.And when a call came, Maude walked into Bangor to do what was required, little knowing that she would find herself in direct confrontation with the British and the only female around to assist at the birth of a baby. When she and her father were reunited after the British left, Maude told him that she wanted to follow in his doctoring foot- steps. But women were not allowed to study medicine in those days, so Eli arranged for her to apprentice with the midwife Sally Cobb Robinson, who lived across the river in Orrington.

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