Set in upstate New York during the Revolution, and divided into chapters that focus on one captive at a time, carrying them through the period of the raid during which they are taken, their flight, their later lives in Indian country, and, for some, their eventual (and far from uncomplicated) return to the community from which they had been seized, this is a book of many surprises and virtues, and I find myself recommending it, as I recommend what else of Edmonds's I have written about above, with real warmth. - Daniel Traister's Home Page, Touts 1998 http://www.english.upenn.edu/~traister/touts-1998.html