Scott O’Dell Knihy

V románě se rozvíjí dobrodružný příběh z dob španělských výbojů v Novém světě v polovině 16. století. Popisuje život a zvyky Indiánů. Citlivě zachycuje vývoj citových vztahů mezi donem Estébanem a mladičkou indiánskou průvodkyní...

Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast.

It is spring of 1877 when fourteen-year-old Sound of Running Feet, daughter of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, sees white people panning gold in the little creek that feeds the Wallowa River, and brings word of them to her father."They are the first, but more are on the way," he says. "We are few and they are many. They will devour us."It is Sound of Running Feet who narrates the story of her tribe's fate. Readers will be gripped as she shares with us her respect for her father, her love for handsome Swan Necklace, and her destiny.

When Bright Morning takes her sheep to pasture, she gazes across the beautiful valley that is the home of her Navaho tribe and sees Spanish slavers riding straight toward her.

A young Indian woman, accompanied by her infant and cruel husband, experiences joy and heartbreak when she joins the Lewis and Clark Expedition seeking a way to the Pacific.

While awaiting trial for murder and withholding from the king the obligatory fifth of the gold found in Cibola, Esteban, a seventeen-year-old cartographer, recalls his adventures with a band of conquistadors.

Left alone after the deaths of her father and brother, who take opposite sides in the War of Independence, Sarah Bishop flees from the British who seek to arrest her and struggles to shape a new life for herself in the wilderness.