Chita

Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Winslow Homer, George Catlin and J. M. W. Turner. The tidal wave of 1856 takes a Louisiana island resort in one night, and a Spanish fisherman's family finds a child alive in the wreckage — whose own father is still alive, and looking. Hearn was born on a Greek island to an Irish surgeon, abandoned by both parents, blinded in one eye, and worked...