Call of a Distant Shore edition by Corinne Hoebers Literature Fiction eBooks
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Call of a Distant Shore follows the travails of Elisabeth Heber and her family as they struggle under the rule of a tyrannical Prince in 1750s Germany and their subsequent journey to be among the first settlers of Nova Scotia. Unmarried, pregnant, and only sixteen years old, Elisabeth faces emigration with her family with one goal—to find her lover, Peter, who had abandoned her months before when his own family emigrated. When her secret is revealed, she takes her vows with an unwilling heart and weds the village doctor, yet swears to never consummate the marriage. As she boards the Snow Pearl to her new homeland, all her hopes are pinned on finding Peter and changing the circumstances of her life.
Elisabeth and her family scrape to survive within the confines of the palisade in Dartmouth amid threats of Indian attacks and starvation. Like many others, they labour to pay off their passage debts. For two years they struggle, then follow the colony to Lunenburg in the vain hope that it will be better. Misfortune follows the colony as they find themselves no better off as heavy rains spread dysentery and dampen their spirits amid discontent and lies.
But time does not stand still for Elisabeth as she stubbornly holds on to a deep-seated love, and almost lets her own life slip through her fingers.
Call of a Distant Shore edition by Corinne Hoebers Literature Fiction eBooks
Call of a Distant Shore is a 2012 B.R.A.G.Medallion Honoree. This wonderful historic novel is based on the true life of German immigrants to Nova Scotia and is well worth a readers time and money!Product details
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Call of a Distant Shore edition by Corinne Hoebers Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
This was such a moving and heart wrenching account of a family leaving Germany for a promised better life to only find hardships that were unimaginable. Being based on the true accounts of the authors family make it ever more poignant.
I stumbled across this novel while looking for books about colonial Nova Scotia and couldn't put it down once I'd read the first few pages. As I waded through constant character point of view switches and the wordiness of the narrative, I wondered why I liked the story so much. About a third of the way through I realized it was because of the plot and the characters.
Hoebers has plotted a historically and personally compelling tale in this novel. She begins with the troubles experienced by German farmers under their selfish, young prince. The Herber family and their neighbors are fed up with constantly increasing taxes that impoverish them. However, it is family trouble that pushes the family patriarch, Michael, to decide to emigrate to Nova Scotia. He buried his favorite daughter a few months back, his eldest son is in trouble with the law, his younger son has run away from his apprenticeship, and his elder daughter has gotten herself pregnant. Michael forces the pregnant Elizabeth to marry the local doctor and packs his family up for the long journey to Canada. The pacing of the narrative is very well done. Hoebers neither belabors a scene or rushes through one.
Hoebers's characters are intriguing, complex, and likable. Even though it seemed odd to me at first to be in everyone's head as the POV changed, I grew to enjoy the understanding of each character offered in this writing style. In addition, Hoebers's historical detail, both the politics and the aspects of daily life, create a rich story. The novel reminded me a lot of Bernice Morgan's Random Passage which was made into a TV miniseries in 2002.
I'd love to see more from this author, particularly a sequel.
This is a horribly written book with stock characters and plot lines that go nowhere, not to mention a naive Euro-centric notion of native North Americans as being "savages."The only reason I slogged through the whole thing is because I was traveling through Nova Scotia at the time.
Call of a Distant Shore is a 2012 B.R.A.G.Medallion Honoree. This wonderful historic novel is based on the true life of German immigrants to Nova Scotia and is well worth a readers time and money!
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