- Mass Market Paperback: 672 pages
- Publisher: Bantam USA; Reprint edition (29 April 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0553582798
- ISBN-13: 978-0553582796
- Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 2.8 x 17.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 107,643 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Praise for INTO THE WILDERNESS:
‘Into the Wilderness is one of those rare stories that let you breathe the air of another time, and leave your footprints on the snow of a wild, strange place.’
Diana Gabaldon
‘Each time you open a book, you hope to discover a story that will make your spirit of adventure and romance sing. This book delivers on that promise.’
Amanda Quick
‘Epic in scope, emotionally intense’ BookPage
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.Amanda Quick
"Each time you open a book, you hope to discover a story that will make your spirit of adventure & romance sing."
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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35 of 39 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the third book in what I hope will be a very long series.
Donati, has a talent for drawing the reader completely into the story. All of the books concern Elizabeth (loosely based on Austen Elizabeth Bennet) and Nathaniel (son of Hawkeye from last of the Mohicans) and their extended families. The first two books were very good but in "Lake in the Clouds" the characters are so well developed you begin to feel that they must be real!
Lastly I would like to suggest that you resist the urge to read this book too quickly as you will miss it when you finally finish it. Happy reading!
Donati, has a talent for drawing the reader completely into the story. All of the books concern Elizabeth (loosely based on Austen Elizabeth Bennet) and Nathaniel (son of Hawkeye from last of the Mohicans) and their extended families. The first two books were very good but in "Lake in the Clouds" the characters are so well developed you begin to feel that they must be real!
Lastly I would like to suggest that you resist the urge to read this book too quickly as you will miss it when you finally finish it. Happy reading!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is the third book in the wilderness series. I loved the first book, found the second less enjoyable because they are away from Paradise but loved this book because the family are back on Lake in the clouds. The characters become even more real - Elizabeth and Nathaniel`s children are growing up and Hannah becomes a healer and falls in love. Nathaniel is such a loving husband - it`s lovely to read about how his relationship with Elizabeth has developed. I found the maps on the inside cover useful to help me to visualise the story and I also loved the cover! I`m now looking forward to the next book in the series.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
For me, Sara Donati is a perfect example of an author who comes up with a good idea for a book, researches thoroughly and writes well, but the end result is just dull stodge. It demonstrates that, however hard you work, there really is something called talent that you've either got or you haven't. I can't really explain it but I can recognise it - and this book doesn't have it.
It's a worthy idea for a series. Both the setting and the themes (backwoods America in the early years of independence, with white settlers, black slaves and native Americans struggling to co-exist) are interesting and important, but the characters just never came alive for me. When they speak, they all sound the same. The children are just miniature adults, the native Americans are interchangeable (and confusing, as they all seem to have more than one name). She describes strong emotions but none of the relationships really ring true, and so it's hard to care. Despite her extraordinary story the heroine, Hannah, is just plain dull.
I can't be the only one who came to this series after reading Diana Gabaldon, a hard act to follow (if you like this sort of thing), so perhaps that clouded my judgement. On paper the setting (from Voyager (Outlander 3) onwards) is very similar, but there the comparison ends. Sara Donati obviously wanted to create a much more traditional and serious type of historical novel, and in this she's succeeded - there's no fun or humour in this book at all!
Diana Gabaldon, though her books are equally well researched and seriously intended, opted for romance and adventure with a dash of the supernatural, but mixed with very believable scenes of everyday family life and relationships. Despite their soapy faults, her books are more successful because she has a great gift for creating vivid and realistic characters that you can see and hear, and you live the story through them. Donati just describes things.
It's probably a bit harsh to only give this book two stars, but I found it really hard going. I'm disappointed, as Ms Gabaldon has rather lost her way in her most recent books and I would have loved to discover a new series, but for me this definitely isn't it.
It's a worthy idea for a series. Both the setting and the themes (backwoods America in the early years of independence, with white settlers, black slaves and native Americans struggling to co-exist) are interesting and important, but the characters just never came alive for me. When they speak, they all sound the same. The children are just miniature adults, the native Americans are interchangeable (and confusing, as they all seem to have more than one name). She describes strong emotions but none of the relationships really ring true, and so it's hard to care. Despite her extraordinary story the heroine, Hannah, is just plain dull.
I can't be the only one who came to this series after reading Diana Gabaldon, a hard act to follow (if you like this sort of thing), so perhaps that clouded my judgement. On paper the setting (from Voyager (Outlander 3) onwards) is very similar, but there the comparison ends. Sara Donati obviously wanted to create a much more traditional and serious type of historical novel, and in this she's succeeded - there's no fun or humour in this book at all!
Diana Gabaldon, though her books are equally well researched and seriously intended, opted for romance and adventure with a dash of the supernatural, but mixed with very believable scenes of everyday family life and relationships. Despite their soapy faults, her books are more successful because she has a great gift for creating vivid and realistic characters that you can see and hear, and you live the story through them. Donati just describes things.
It's probably a bit harsh to only give this book two stars, but I found it really hard going. I'm disappointed, as Ms Gabaldon has rather lost her way in her most recent books and I would have loved to discover a new series, but for me this definitely isn't it.
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historical fiction-great characters, great story
of the wilderness series, this is my favorite. I like her writing style, story-telling, and character development. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Grammy J
Lake in the Cloud
I have so enjoyed all of the Sara Donati books in this series. I am about to start the last one The endless forrest. Read more
Published 19 months ago by jomac
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