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Recommended historical books (1)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you are into historical here are some historical books from Saint Kitts and Nevis for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.

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Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips EN

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A Booker shortlisted novel by one of the finest writers of his generation. A voice speaking out of a distant past, describes the consequences of his desperation- his daughter and two sons are condemned to the hold of an English slave ship bound for America in 1753. Here are the stories of these children- Nash, Martha, and Travis. Yet as the narrative unfolds, we come to understand that although they are his children, they are also all of slavery's children. Nash, returning to Africa in the 1830's a Christian-educated adult, a missionary to the new territory of Liberia, slowly becoming a part o... continue
Recommended: 30 Oct 2022


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