New Releases by Allan W. Eckert

A shy, lonely six-year-old wanders into the Canadian prairie and spends a summer under the protection of a badger.

The wading and marsh birds of North America north of Mexico is described and illustrated.

A young boy''s remarkable ability to transfer his consciousness at will into any living organism and to share what it experiences proves to be an exhilarating but bittersweet gift.

A shy, lonely six-year-old wanders into the Canadian prairie and spends a summer under the protection of a badger. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Based on a true but little known episode in Daniel Boone''s lide, Allan Eckert''s first full-length novel re-creates the legendary frontiersman''s severest test - the trial for his life at Boonesborough in 1778. A captain during the Revolutionary War, Boone faces court-martial and hanging for such high crimes as betraying his command to the Indians, conspiring to surrender Boonesborough, consorting with the enemy, and accepting favors from the British. And Boone pleads guilty to all of the actions detailed in the charges against him. But he also pleads not guilty to the charge of treason, and to the amazement of the court, he insists on defending himself - disregarding the advice of experienced counsel in favor of a plan only he himself knows. Strong, seemingly irrefutable evidence is added to the prosecution''s case with each witness. To a man, they corraborate the capture of Boone and his company by Shawnee Indians, Boone''s preferential treatment in the Indian camp.

They had defeated the French and now the English possessed the vast North American Empire. Soldiers, traders, settlers--all began the trek across the wilderness to claim the land and its riches. Against this relentless tide Indian warriors rose up in bitter fury exploded in the bloody battle for the conquest of the Northwest territory.

In the year 1771, a white boy named Marmaduke Van Swearingen was captured by Shawnee Indians in what is now West Virginia, but was then the edge of the American frontier. Impressed with his bravery, he was not killed but instead was taken to Ohio where he was adopted into the tribe and given the name Blue Jacket, from the blue shirt he was wearing at the time of his capture. The boy grew to excel as a warrior and leader and became the only white to be made a war chief of the Shawnee Nation. And the name Blue Jacket became famous throughout the Northwest Territory. The characters in this book were real people who lived the life and did the things herein recounted. Much of the dialogue is taken directly from historical records. Allan W. Eckert, author of The Frontiersmen and 39 other notable books, has taken all of the known facts of Blue Jacket''s life and has woven them into a narrative of compelling interest, with a very different perspective on the way America was settled.

Maps on lining papers. A narrative account of the eighteenthcentury struggle of England and France in the Iroquois territory for dominance.

Allan Eckert has taken all of the known facts of Blue Jacket''s life and has woven them into a narrative with a very different perspective on the settling of America.

A story of a boy maturing, experiencing his first real loneliness, the first stirings of sex, and the first awareneww of nature.

Accounts of typical experiences and activities of animals native to Louisiana''s bayou country: Louisiana heron, armadillo, raccoon, water moccasin, snakebird, spadefoot toad, hognose snake, alligator snapping turtle, dragonfly, spotted skunk, and alligator.

Reconstructs the story of the Dayton flood in March, 1913.