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Caleb's Crossing Audiobook by Geraldine Brooks

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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Caleb's Crossing Author: Geraldine Brooks Narrator: Jennifer Ehle Format: Unabridged Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins Language: English Release date: 06-09-11 Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 49 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Caleb Cheeshateaumauk was the first native American to graduate from Harvard College back in 1665. Caleb's Crossing gives voice to his little known story. Caleb, a Wampanoag from the island of Martha's Vineyard, seven miles off the coast of Massachusetts, comes of age just as the first generation of Indians come into contact with English settlers, who have fled there, desperate to escape the brutal and doctrinaire Puritanism of the Massachusetts Bay colony. The story is told through the eyes of Bethia, daughter of the English minister who educates Caleb in the Latin and Greek he needs in order to enter the college. As Caleb makes the crossing into