Sparrowhawk.

Alternate Titles

• Caxton

Description

"The time is 1766, the Stamp Act has been introduced, and discontent is again running rampant. News of the unrest reaches the British Parliament as merchants successfully plead with the government to repeal the act before the nation is ruined. Although the act is repealed, Parliament is not going to relinquish powers to the colonies that easily, and Jack Frake and Hugh Kenrick are forced to stand up against a new wave of taxes and censorship imposed in the colonies"--Publisher description.

Description

The third book in the Sparrowhawk series of historical novels in which Jack Frake (Book One) and Hugh Kenrick (Book Two) meet in Colonial Virginia, as young men seeking their own fortunes and moral independence. Jack is a successful planter with a lifetime of experience between the day he was brought to Virginia as an indentured felon and years later when he meets Hugh. Hugh, after completing his education in Philadelphia, decides not to return to England immediately, but to purchase a plantation and turn it into something of his own. Both take extraordinary actions to preserve their lives and fortunes in the turbulent period following the French and Indian War.

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Genres

• Fiction.

Series Statement

• Sparrowhawk series ;

Other Editions

• Sparrowhawk.: a novelMacAdam/Cage Pub.2003-01-01
• SparrowhawkMacAdam/Cage2001-01-01
• Sparrowhawk.MacAdam/Cage2004-01-01
• Sparrowhawk.MacAdam/Cage2005-01-01