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Mission Boy — Gilbert Byron

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Paperback editions:

  • Trade Paperback
  • Dec-2015
  • Secant Publishing
  • ISBN: 0996574433
  • ISBN13: 9780996574433

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Hardcover editions:

  • Hardcover
  • Dec-2015
  • Secant Publishing
  • ISBN: 0996574425
  • ISBN13: 9780996574426

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  • Dec-2015
  • Secant Publishing

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  • eBook (Kindle)
  • Dec-2015
  • Secant Publishing, LLC

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Description
Mission Boy tells a little known, true story of early American history. Nearly forty years before the English founded their first permanent colony in the New World, at Jamestown, a small group of Jesuit missionaries sailed north from Havana, Cuba to virtually the same location. Guided by a Native American convert to Christianity whom they called Don Luis, the Jesuits hoped to bring Christianity to the Algonquin Indians and to claim a new territory for King Phillip II of Spain.

Their mission did not go according to plan. The Indian guide they depended on slipped back into the forests. Within half a year, only one of their number remained alive. And he had to wait more than another year for rescue, in a vast, beautiful, but treacherous land.

In a manuscript written nearly 50 years ago, but not published until now, venerated Chesapeake Bay poet and novelist Gilbert Byron tells their tale.
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