Summary
A heartbreaking history of prejudice, family ties, and the loss of innocence.A heartbreaking history of prejudice, family ties, and the loss of innocence.When twelve-year-old Titus Sullivan decides to run away to join his Uncle Amos and older brother, Lem, he finds an alien and exciting world in Oil Springs, the first Canadian oil boomtown of the 19th century.The Enniskillen swamp is slick with oil, and it takes enterprising folk to plumb its depths. The adventurers who work there are a tough…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780887769832 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0887769837 |
| Author: | Ann Towell |
| Publisher: | Tundra Books |
| Imprint: | Tundra Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2010 |
| Weight: | 358g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 142mm x 21mm |
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About The Author
Ann Towell
ANN TOWELL was born in Chatham, Ontario, and grew up in Wallaceburg. She was co-finalist, with her husband, world-renowned photographer Larry Towell, for the Dorothea Lange/Paul Taylor Award for work on the Mennonites, a segment that appeared in the 1994 summer edition of Descant magazine. Her first children’s novel The Hollow Locust Trees was published by Black Moss Press in 1998. She has four children- Moses, Naomi, Noah, and Isaac and a granddaughter, River Annabelle. She lives near Shetland, Ontario, on a 75-acre farm.
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