Canaan

Name: Canaan
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Donald McCaig
ISBN: 9781436133777

Author: Donald McCaig

Narrator: Tom Stechschulte, Alyssa Bresnahan, Carine Montbertrand

Unabridged: 14 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/22/2008

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

This sequel to Donald McCaig's award-winning Civil War novel Jacob's Ladder delivers a gripping saga of Reconstruction America from Lee's 1865 surrender at Appomattox to Custer's 1876 massacre at Little Big Horn. McCaig follows the changing fortunes of a diverse ensemble of characters, including Edward, a wartime top sergeant for the 38th Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops. Travelling west as a scout, trail cook, cattle driver, and sharpshooter, he marries a Santee Indian.

About Donald McCaig

Donald McCaig is the award-winning author of Canaan as well as Jacob’s Ladder, designated “the best Civil War novel ever written” by the Virginia Quarterly. It won the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction and the Library of Virginia Award for Fiction. He was chosen by the Margaret Mitchell estate to write Rhett Butler’s People, an authorized sequel to Gone with the Wind. He lives on a sheep farm in the mountains near Williamsville, Virginia, where he writes fiction, essays, and poetry, and trains and trials sheep dogs.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Erik on February 20, 2020

How many times can I get away with praising a historical novel as "entertaining and educational"? I guess that's the whole point of the genre. So you can just assume that for "Canaan," with gripping storytelling by Donald McCaig. I just found out it's a sequel to McCaig's Civil War novel "Jacob's Lad......more

Goodreads review by Keith on August 25, 2012

This absorbing narrative of a turbulent time in America is masterfully written and meticulously researched; the basic elements that make history come alive. The primary voice of the story is “She Goes Before” a Santee Lakota and daughter of Red Leaf who is hanged in the first chapter for a murder he......more

Goodreads review by Eileen on June 10, 2019

This book covered a number of storylines around some of the family members and former slaves in the post civil war era. Touching on everything from enfranchisement of black voters in the South, to the events leading up to Custer’s last stand, to railroad speculation and resulting bank failures, to c......more

Goodreads review by John on September 28, 2019

This is a sequel to McCaig's JACOB'S LADDER with some of the same characters but a much wider geographic sweep and covering many more years. The book covers the years from the end of the Civil War in Virginia to the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876 and has chapters ranging from Virginia to Montana.......more