Description - The Bastard Boy by James Wilson
On a quest for his lost nephew an eighteenth-century Englishman journeys across America, before finally discovering the startling truth about the 'bastard boy'.Ned Gudgeon is asked to find the bastard child his brother Daniel, fathered in America during the Seven Years War. Following the few clues he has, he travels first to a Carolina plantation, where he helps two slaves to escape; to Mount Vernon, to see Daniel's former brother-officer, George Washington; and then across the Appalachians, into the wild 'back country' of the frontier - where he has a series of perilous adventures with settlers and bandits, visionaries and murderers, land-speculators and American Indians. As he is confronted with the upheavals of history, he is forced to question his most fundamental ideas about liberty and slavery, savagery and civilisation.
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The Inclosure of the Moors, Commons, and Waste Lands of Dalston, Cumberland ... Edited by J. Wilson.
