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Nat and Richard, two orphaned thieves become passage as laborers on a merchant ship bound for the New World. What luck! The land of Virginia is rumored to be paved with gold. They will be rich! But quickly the boys learn the awful truth. The settlers at the new English colony at Jamestown are unprepared for the brutal reality of frontier life. Inadequate supplies, illness, petty squabbling, malarial summer heat and bitter winter cold and even cannibalism decimate the colony. Through it all Nat and Richard must fall back on their wits to survive.Massie, Elizabeth is the author of 'Winter of the Dead', published 2000 under ISBN 9780606196734 and ISBN 0606196730.
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