O Beulah Land: Book II of the Beulah Quintet

By Mary Lee Settle

Book Overview

O Beulah Land, the second volume of The Beulah Quintet--Mary Lee Settle's unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture, class, and identity and the meaning of freedom--is a land-hungry story. It follows the odyssey of Johnny Church's descendants as they leave England in search of freedom and land. One of those descendants, Jonathan Lacey, settles in the backcountry of Virginia, where he battles both Native Americans and white frontier bandits and builds the beginning of a flourishing estate named Beulah. The novel closes shortly before the commencement of the Revolutionary War, with Lacey elected to the House of Burgesses and his family line firmly established in what is to become the state of West Virginia.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570031150
• ISBN13: 9781570031151
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

What historical fiction should be!

Charlottesville, VA, home of Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe and of the University of Virginia, now offers up a new contribution: Mary Lee Settle. This book is a thrilling read, yet it's so evocative of the time in which it is set that Prof. Stephen Innes of UVa assigns it to his undergrad's (of whom, by the way, I've never been one). Try it, you'll like it!