22. A Ripple in Time: An Historical Novel of Survival by Victor Zugg

#1 A Ripple in Time

listened on Chirp
narrated by Sean William Doyle
Unabridged audio (7:25)
2019
350 pgs.
Adult Time Travel/Survival
Finished 3/17/2021
Goodreads rating: 4.23 - 1256 ratings
My rating: 4.5
Setting: Mostly early 1700's Charleston, SC/coast

First line/s:  "The PA system blared. "Final call for Flight seventy-three with service to Charlotte, boarding at Gate 5.  This is your final call.' "

My comments: An interesting take on time travel!  This one was fun to read because it had a lot of basic information about survival like gear needed and trying to put yourself into the right period of history with only what you have.  Clothing of the period was interesting and the last 10% of the book (spoiler alert!) trying to get back, -- was really fun.  The actual ending made me grin.  There's a sequel, will try to find it on audio.

Goodreads synopsis:    A struggle for survival in a time long past.
          It started as a routine Miami to Charlotte flight for the passengers, crew, and Federal Air Marshal Stephen Mason. But a freak storm over the Atlantic propels the airliner unexplainably back in time to the early 18th century. They find themselves on the sparsely populated coast of the Carolina Colony. Charles Town is the only English settlement of any size in the area. It’s an inhospitable place of vast plantations, slavery, hostile natives, tall ships, and marauding pirates.
          Finding a way back, if that’s even feasible, is the least of their worries. These unintended time travelers quickly find themselves ill-equipped for hardships and dangers not faced for centuries. Perils loom at every turn in this world of loss, anguish, filth, and sweat.
          Foreigners in their own land, can they survive and adapt? Is it even possible for these modern transplants to carve an existence from this foul and odorous place in time?
          Stephen Mason will find a way or die trying.

PICTURE BOOK - Christopher Newport, Jamestown Explorer - Sharon K. Solomon

Illustrated by Dan Bridy

2013, Pelican Publishing

32 pgs.

Goodreads rating: 4.0

My rating: 3.5

Endpapers: rust

Illustrations nicely compliment the story, leaving less white on many pages than some smaller publishers might have (yay!)

My comments:  I've always had a fascination with the mysterious histories of Roanoke and Jamestown, even visiting each several times.  This picture book tells the story of Christopher Newport - who after years of being a privateer (PIRATE!), was hired by the Virginia Company to be the commander of the three ships - the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery - which were to be the founders of the first permanent settlement in America: Jamestown.  According to this, Captain John Smith was a passenger and somewhat of a troublemaker, not particularly the captain/leader that my memory of history seems to make him out to be.  But, alas, since I now have more questions about these two men and their parts in this history,I now have the desire to look into things a bit more and read anew.....

Goodreads:  Christopher Newport made history when he founded the first British colony in America. Discover how the young lad from Harwich, England, came to command three ships destined to reach the New World. This biography takes readers on Newport's adventures of the high seas, full of sword fights, exotic foods, and shipwrecks. Join him on the journey to America, the quest for the elusive Northwest Passage to China, and beyond.
          In 1857, Sir Francis Drake hired Newport to capture Spanish ships and bring treasures back to England. After ten years as a privateer, Newport was chosen by King James to command three ships owned by the Virginia Company. On this voyage, Newport and his crew changed the world by founding Jamestown, the first successful English-speaking colony in America.

Anne Hutchinson's Way - Jeannine Atkins

Illustrator: Michael Dooling
Published: 2007
Rating: 4
For: Gr. 3-6
$17.00
Endpapers: Crimson

Magnificent full page oil paintings. Text usually on the sky or the ground. Lovely to look at.

I'm so glad that this story is told, but it seems just a little bit awkward at first. The story seems to begin with Anne's point of view, but then switches to Susanna's, the youngest of her many, many children. But once the point of view becomes clear, the story flows very nicely.

Anne Hutchinson and her husband arrive with their ten or eleven or twelve children in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634. Anne helps birth babies, raise her children, keep her household, and also reads scripture and "talks" with the women - and some of the men- of the community, to the disdain of Gov. Winthrop. This is not a woman's place! Within three years she is tried and told to leave. So she, with her entire family, move to an island in Narragansett Bay -- in Rhode Island.

The afterword tells of what happens to her in the years following; the story is told well and illustrated beautifully.