[bksvol-discuss] Re: Fw: History and Current Events March 2010
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 21:57:38 -0500
Birthright: The True Story that Inspired Kidnapped - by A. Roger Ekirch
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Check Library Catalog
Pub Date: 01/25/2010
ISBN-13: 9780393066159
ISBN-10: 0393066150
As an eight-year-old, James "Jemmy" Annesley, heir to several Irish estates,
was turned out of the family home to placate his father's mistress. After his
father's death when Jemmy was 12, he was kidnapped by his uncle (who had
already claimed that Jemmy was both illegitimate and dead) and shipped to
America
as an indentured servant. After more than a decade in near-slavery, Jemmy
escaped and returned to the British Isles, where he fought to regain his
birthright,
despite his lack of any real proof. His story--and the decades-long
trial--inspired many novels, including Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped. For
the
full story, don't miss historian A. Roger Ekirch's well-documented and
compelling narrative.
Table of Contents
This one was featured on NPR and was absolutely brilliant.
Shelley L. Rhodes, VRT
and Ludden Black Labrador Guide Dog
Reading a book is like rewriting it for yourself. You bring to a novel,
anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and
you read it in your own terms. -Angela Carter, novelist and journalist
(1940-1992)
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