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A place called freedom [electronic resource] / Ken Follett.
In 18th Century Scotland, Mack MacAsh, a rebellious youth who tried to escape from a slave mine, is caught and deported in chains to America. On the same boat is the mine owner's son, travelling to his plantation in Virginia, and with him is his fiancee, Lizzie Hallim, who helped MacAsh escape. She and MacAsh will meet again and love will bloom.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307775191 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0307775194 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (379 p.)
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2010]
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| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console |
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| Subject: | United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > Fiction. Scotland > History > 18th century > Fiction. Highlands (Scotland) > Fiction. Scottish Americans > Fiction. |
| Genre: | EBOOK. Electronic books. |
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- Baker & Taylor
In 1766, Mack McAsh and Lizzie Hallam are two restless souls searching for freedom, undertaking a turbulent journey that takes them from London to a Virginia plantation. By the author ofPillars of the Earth. Reprint. - Random House, Inc.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: the beautiful, highborn Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. Though separated by politics and position, these two restless young people are bound by their passionate search for a place called freedom.
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From the teeming streets of London to the infernal hold of a slave ship to a sprawling Virginia plantation, Ken Follett's turbulent, unforgettable novel of liberty and revolution brings together a vivid cast of heroes and villains, lovers and rebels, hypocrites and hell-raisers'all propelled by destiny toward an epic struggle that will change their lives forever. - Random House, Inc.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: the beautiful, highborn Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. Though separated by politics and position, these two restless young people are bound by their passionate search for a place called freedom.
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From the teeming streets of London to the infernal hold of a slave ship to a sprawling Virginia plantation, Ken Follettâs turbulent, unforgettable novel of liberty and revolution brings together a vivid cast of heroes and villains, lovers and rebels, hypocrites and hell-raisersâall propelled by destiny toward an epic struggle that will change their lives forever.
