The Road to Paris: A Story of Adventure

The frontier calls, but Paris dreams. In the wilds of mid-18th century Pennsylvania, young Dick Wetheral grows up amid the rumble of Indian uprisings and settler conflicts, his family's log home a small outpost against untamed wilderness. From his first steps beyond the clearing, Dick possesses a restless curiosity that sets him apart from his hardened neighbors. When his wandering takes him too far into the forest, he discovers that the world is larger and more dangerous than his parents dare admit. What unfolds is the making of an adventurer: a boy shaped by frontier hardship, by the thrill of exploration, and by a longing he cannot name. Paris, that glittering metropolis across an ocean, represents everything the wilderness is not, refinement and civilization. Yet to reach it, Dick must first survive the wilds of his own young life. For readers who love historical frontier fiction and tales of boys who become men through trial and wanderlust.