Mission Boy
A Novel of Spanish Jesuits in Chesapeake Bay
Kids, Fiction, Historical, Action/Adventure, Teen
| Author: | Gilbert Byron | ISBN: | 9780996574440 |
| Publisher: | Secant Publishing, LLC | Publication: | December 1, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Secant Publishing, LLC | Language: | English |
| Author: | Gilbert Byron |
| ISBN: | 9780996574440 |
| Publisher: | Secant Publishing, LLC |
| Publication: | December 1, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Secant Publishing, LLC |
| Language: | English |
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 land in 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 2015, venerated Chesapeake Bay poet and novelist Gilbert Byron tells the tale of this lost and long-forgotten Jesuit mission.
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 land in 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 2015, venerated Chesapeake Bay poet and novelist Gilbert Byron tells the tale of this lost and long-forgotten Jesuit mission.
