Tracy Chevalier - At the Edge of the Orchard

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HarperCollins Publishers 2016

Copyright © Tracy Chevalier 2016

Tracy Chevalier asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

Cover design by Holly Macdonald © HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2019

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Apple leaves illustrations from ‘Botanical – Black and White – Tree sketches 1’, under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported licence (CC BY-NC 3.0) http://vintageprintable.com/botanical-low-color/botanical-low-color-2/#jp-carousel-38965; U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection, Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705 (apple leaves).

Sequoia cone illustration from ‘Kunstformen de Natur’, 1889 (colour litho), by Ernst Haeckel (19th century, after) © Private Collection / Prismatic Pictures / Bridgeman Images.

Map © John Gilkes 2016

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while at times based on historical figures, are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Source ISBN: 9780007350407

Ebook Edition © November 2016 ISBN: 9780007350414

Version: 2019-01-11

For Claire and Pascale

finding their way in the world

The juice of Apples likewise, as of pippins, and pearemaines, is of very good use in Melancholicke diseases, helping to procure mirth, and to expell heavinesse.

—John Parkinson, Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris , 1629

To the spirit bowed with affliction, or harrowed with cares, a pilgrimage to these shadowy shrines affords most soothing consolation. Behold the evergreen summits of trees that have withstood the storms of more than three thousand years! … While lost in wonder and admiration, the turmoil of earthly strife seems to vanish.

—Edward Vischer, The Mammoth Tree Grove, Calaveras County, California , 1862

Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.

—John Babsone Lane Soule, 1851 and Horace Greeley, 1865

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Map

Black Swamp, Ohio: Spring 1838

America: 1840–1856

California: 1853–1856

Black Swamp, Ohio: Fall 1838

Black Swamp, Ohio: 1844–1856

California: 1856

Acknowledgments

Author’s Note

About the Author

Also by Tracy Chevalier

About the Publisher

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