Voyageurs

✍ Scribed by Elphinstone, Margaret

• Book ID: 110498475
• Publisher: Grove Atlantic
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 627 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781841956435

✦ Synopsis

A Quaker's faith is tested during the War of 1812 in this "stunning work of historical fiction" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

Mark Greenhow, a naive and peaceful Quaker, lands on the shores of North America on the eve of the War of 1812, thinking only of finding the missing sister, a missionary whose adventurous spirit he has always admired. His pursuit begins by hitching a ride with the voyageurs who have canoed the rivers, transporting the tons of furs that feed the trade that has made the region a battleground of the French and British empires.

Though Mark enters this brave new world with his conscience clean and his convictions sound, his encounters with a place and people he never could have imagined test his rigid upbringing. The backwoods of Canada have certainly led his sister astray; she has been excommunicated from the Society of Friends for running off with a non-Quaker. After her child is stillborn she runs again, deep into...