The Ballad of Jacob Peck

by Debra Komar

Book Overview

Shortlisted, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing On a frigid February evening in 1805, Amos Babcock brutally murdered Mercy Hall. Believing that he was being instructed by God, Babcock stabbed and disembowelled his own sister, before dumping her lifeless body in a rural New Brunswick snowbank. The Ballad of Jacob Peck is the tragic and fascinating story of how isolation, duplicity, and religious mania turned impoverished, hard-working...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 086492903X
• ISBN13: 9780864929037
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"