Talking Leaf: The Nantucket Diary of Sarah Skootequary

by Phil Laughing Crow Austin

August 1763. A brig bound for New York suddenly diverts its course into shallow Nantucket waters near the entrance to the Old Harbor, which has recently shoaled over. The fever ship, local history books tell us, laden with sick and dying Irish immigrants to the New World, is forced to anchor offshore. One by one, the frightened passengers make their way to the beach and into the village. Within several days, the first islanders lie infected and dying...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1401075231
• ISBN13: 9781401075231
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Xlibris Us
• Length: 652 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"