Calling Crow

The Southeast Series seriesbook 1 of 2Next:Calling Crow Nation(1997) →

1555. Calling Crow is haunted by his recurring dream of the Destroyer who will one day lay waste to his village. Then Spanish colonial slavers from the island of Hispaniola arrive on the shores of the Southeast, lands that have been home to the Muskogee people for generations. Calling Crow and another brave are taken and bound into slavery. Life in the gold pits and slave camps is humiliating and brutal, but Calling Crow refuses to let them break his spirit. Aided by a kindly priest, Calling Crow vows to learn the language and ways of an overwhelmingly powerful enemy in order to eventually save his own people. But first he must regain his own freedom.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 282 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked Calling Crow? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Calling Crow. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Oh, That I Had Wings Shares historical fiction, fiction
  2. The Miracle Thief Shares historical fiction, fiction
  3. Iron Branch: A Civil War Tale of a Woman In-Between Shares historical fiction, fiction
  4. Vienna Triangle Shares historical fiction, fiction

“People who read Calling Crow tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Bladesong
  2. Spirit Falls
  3. Montfort: The Early Years - 1229 to 1243
  4. Conquests: Hearts Rule Kingdoms

“If you want more of the same (historical fiction about native american), start with these.”

  1. Choctaw
  2. A Searing Wind
  3. Coming of the Storm
  4. Circles

“Readers describe these the same way.”

  1. The Wall
  2. The Other Side of the Stars
  3. Ravenscraig
  4. Blood and Blade

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Freedom's Gate
  2. Dreams of the Highlander
  3. Lakam (The Mana Series Book 1)
  4. A Mighty Big Imagining