La très catastrophique visite du zoo

Joël Dicker

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Christine Patterson was born in New York's Hudson Valley Frontier. Her father, Robert, was the founder and Lord Mayor f heir settlement of Patterson, New York. She was raised with frontiersmen like Robert Rogers and the Mohican Indians. She could out shoot, out ride, and out think all the boys, both white and red in the Hudson Valley. Just as everything was going well for the settlement, the most horrible incident of her life occurred. The Abenaki and Huron Indians, along with French Trappers, attacked the valley. She was forced to watch the murders of her family before her eyes and taken captive carrying her father's scalp on her long march north to Canada. Held captive and physically abused for five years, she endured the worst possible life.

Miraculously, she was rescued by her younger brother, Pip, and twenty-two Mohicans set out to rescue Christine and destroy the Abenaki village that held her captive. Pip brought her and four other captive girls back to their maternal grandfather, James Farrell, to live in his house in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. It took time for her and the other girls to recover from their ordeal. They had been beaten and starved. Christine, the eldest of the group, was sexually abused. Once she was able to walk about the town as she acclimated to living in a civilized setting. Her grandparents gradually reintroduced her to society by taking in the theater, concerts and, of course, church. Even though no one asked about her captivity, it was the topic of speculation and gossip. She knew that this was the case as she would come up to a group and they would stop talking and smile at her. She tried hard, but she could not endure this life.

After years in Elizabethtown, Christine could face all the questioning faces of the people in Elizabeth. So, she and her fellow captive friend, Janet Best, sailed to back to the Old World. Her new life begins with a coach hold-up by the notorious Captain Jack Osborne. Coming to the defense of her friend, Janet, from the abuse of one highwayman, Christine's skills of Indian fighting enabled her to kill the man. She was pistol whipped to unconsciousness. Lady Julia Fenton, the Baroness of Tunbridge, befriends Christine. Julia was a young woman near the same age as Christine. She would bring her to London and introduce her to the Countess, Lady Elizabeth Farthington. These three ladies would become close friends attending and giving parties. She has left her past in the New World and start anew in the Old World.

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