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Summary: This book is so involving I could not put it down.
Review: I am amazed at this womans strength! I am an athlete and I find myself wondering if I could make this amazing treck.I live in the area where part of this book took place and my wife is from Point Pleasent West Virginia so the scene is even more amazing because I have seen part of it myself. Amazing!!!!Jeff Storch Cincinnati, Oh
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Summary: My favorite book of all time - read 5 times
Review: This book is one of those "can't put it down" ones and one I have gone back and reread several times. The author keeps you spellbound and you feel every pain the heroine suffers.
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Summary: A WELL RESEARCHED BOOK
Review: THIS BOOK ABOUT MARY INGELLS HAD ME FEELING WITH HER AND IMAGINING EVERY THING SHE DID. IT HAS MANY DETAILS AND HAS YOU CRYING AND LAUGHING.
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Summary: Very rich!!!
Review: I found this book very interesting, I couldn't put it down. You could envision the scenery and the hardships that the characters were going through and I didn't want to put it down!! I have been looking for some more books by Thom, I have printed out a list from the computer. I hope they all are as good as "Follow the River", it is one of the best books I've read, and I have read a lot of books!!
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Summary: Unforgettable! Didn't want it to end!
Review: Although I read this book when it first came out in paperback, I remember it as if I had read it yesterday. It was one of the most difinitive accounts of a pioneer captive that I've ever read. Thom is a master of just the right blend of descriptive action and bringing a little known historical figure to life. I recommend highly to all history/adventure lovers!
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Summary: This captive story makes you feel like you were there.
Review: Mary Ingles' great love for her husband was the connecting link that gave her the courage and strength to make her way home. Captured by the Shawnee, Mary walked 1,000 miles from Big Bone Salt Lick in Indiana back to Drapper's Meadow in Virgina. Everytime the weather is freezing here (Northeast Ohio), I imagine Mary walking without any protection from the elements. The Ohio River was her guide. I am not a strong swimmer and can't belive how she (a nonswimmer) had to forge many parts of the river to continue her journey. The descriptions in the book are so vivid, that while I was driving, I was able to identify cliffs and the New River in Virginia described in the story before I saw any road signs. I also was able to walk a part of the trail that Mary actually traveled. The trail was very dense and heavily wooded. I felt like I needed to be on the lookout so that I wouldn't be captured. I guarantee you won't be able to put the book down.
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Summary: Thom gives you a greater respect for the weaker sex.
Review: Follow The River needs to be the first book you read written by Thom. Thom captures your imignation of what true pioneer people must have been like. Thom also captures your soul in that when Mary Ingles is hungry you are hungry. When she is cold you are cold. When she is tired and can barely proceed due to worldly elements, Mary presses on and you continue to read forsaking everything else encouraging Mary to continue and complete her journey home. After that you will be an avid Thom fan.
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Summary: looking for teaching material over this book for jr hi schoo
Review: I'll be teaching this book next year (b/c I loved it so much and its full of historical import along w/literary richness).
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Summary: Best historical novel ever written!!!!!
Review: This book makes you feel like you are with Mary Ingles as she embarks on this seemingly impossible journey through the mountains of the Ohio river valley. You could see and feel everything she went through. This is an awesome book.
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Summary: Excellent reading Pick it up and you won't put it down!!!
Review: Graphic description of the physical and mental journey of Mary Ingles and her Dutch friend(?) This historical account describes how savage and yet how honorable the Indian population was with the captured whites. You must read the account of the return journey back to Drapper Meadows and realize what is possible when one sets their mind on completing a journey to return to loved ones.
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