A novel set in Portugal follows a romance that begins with an implausible relationship between a peasant girl and a Jewish boy and will stretch across six centuries as it reoccurs at different times and places.

Product Description: Spice and the Devil's Cave is a book by Agnes Hewes that was published in 1930. This piece of historical fiction is a retroactive winner of the Newbery Honor award. The setting is Lisbon, Portugal in the late 1490s, as Vasco de Gama, Bartholomew Diaz, and Ferdinand Magellan discuss their plans to find the elusive sea route around the Cape of Good Hope, which would enable Portugal to access the spice-rich countries of the Far East...read more

A young boy forms a remarkable friendship with an African mystical healer called Midnight, until a terrible betrayal forever changes the course of John Zarco Stewart's life, sending him on a quest that takes him from Africa to the turbulence of nineteenth-century Europe to the plantations of America's Deep South in search of truth, redemption, and love. Reprint.