And Tomorrow the Stars (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Kay Hill
- First Published: 1968
- Time of Work: 1459–1498
- Setting: Genoa, Venice, England, and the North Atlantic
- Principal Characters: John Cabot, Luigi Romano, Fra Andrea, Robert Thorne, Michieli Ferari, Gabriel Duchesne, Mattea Cabot
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, Voyages, Ships, Fifteenth century, Explorers, Biography, Discoveries, Geography
- Locales: England, Oceans, Venice, Italy, Genoa, Italy
Form and Content
As she makes clear in her introduction, And Tomorrow the Stars, Kay Hill’s biography of John Cabot, is highly fictional because of the scarcity of primary source material. Only a handful of documents that reference the fifteenth century explorer exist, and many of these are ambiguous, frequently referring to Cabot by different names. In order to make Cabot a “living person,” Hill decided to create a historical fiction “firmly set in the period,” detailing a narrative that might have happened, given the historical background and allusions in the...
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