In 1751, Johannes Christian Welde sailed from an island in the English Channel to America. Two hundred and fifty years later, Natalie Welde boards a plane bound for the country her ancestor left behind. But for those intervening years, their paths might have crossed—she on a Delta plane flying at 38,000 feet, he in steerage on a ship bound for America.Natalie's brother, Billy, dreamed of visiting the land of his ancestors, but it was never possible. Though he always greeted life wi...