This has got to be one of the most powerful and amazing set of books I've ever read. I love the storyline and the era and the characters. Elizabeth Middleton is a fictional heroine of mine and her journies through the endless forests have inspired me in my own life. That doesnt mean I'll be packing up my job as a full time Receptionist and head into the bush, but her determination and strength of will help me solve some of my own small problems and difficulties in life. I'm currently in the middle of reading the whole set through for the third time - such an amazing story.
A few lines from the first few pages of Into the Wilderness:
December 1792 "Elizabeth Middleton, twenty-nine years old and unmarried, overly educated and excessively rational, knowing right from wrong and fancy from fact, woke in a nest of marten and fox pelts to the sight of an eagle circling overhead and saw at once that it could not be far to Paradise. All around her was a world of intense green and severe white mountains, a wilderness of deep and bountiful silence, magnificent beyond all imagining. This was not England, that was clear enough."
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