Book 2004
Escape across the wide sea
4.01 12 readers shelved it
- Publisher
- Holiday House
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Huguenots -- Juvenile fiction.
- Huguenots -- Fiction.
- Voyages and travels -- Fiction.
- Slavery -- Fiction.
After escaping religious persecution in France in 1686, a young Huguenot boy and his parents travel on a slave ship to West Africa, then to the Caribbean, and finally to New York, where they help found the town of New Rochelle.