Flesh and Grass (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781451512885)

Seventeenth-century Holland is a major power with a large, wealthy middle class built on spices and slavery. Dutch schemes to colonize the New World attract few interested parties, but Pieter Cornelissoon Boom, an early Mennonite with a dream of communal living, brings a few families to Delaware Bay in 1663. Their "Little Common-wealth" is just getting started when the bloody economic rivalry between Holland and England unleashes violence on the coast of Delaware. The Nieuw Netherland colonies swing between Dutch and English ownership in a series of Anglo-Dutch wars. Cornelis, Boom's blind son, tells the story of the community (based loosely on the ill-fated Delaware settlement of Pieter Plockhoy) in its various forms of existence, relying on his exquisite memory of scent.

Author: Libby Cone
ISBN-10: 1451512880
ISBN-13: 9781451512885
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 06/10/2011
Pages: 174
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.24w x 0.37d