Historical Figures - Fiction, Native American Peoples - Fiction & Literature, Character Types - Fiction, Historical Fiction
Great River
Glen Pitre, Michelle Benoit
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Overview
This historic novel shows how La Salle and his crew paved the way for others to settle the new frontier.Editorials
Publishers Weekly -
On April 9, 1682, Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, planted the French flag in the Mississippi delta, thereby extending the empire of New France from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico . Like La Salle's heady dreams of empire, this historical novel falls short. Pitre ( Belizaire the Cajun ) and Benoit fall into the familiar trap of telling too much and showing too little. While the narrative is not quite as dry as a high school history text, the reader is presented with a string of anecdotes chronicling La Salle's early dealings in Canada; his rivalry with his older brother Jean, a Sulpician priest; his return to France to present his plan to the devious Louis XIV; and his adventures on the Mississippi River. Though the Native American viewpoint with which the authors imbue the narrative is new and welcome, it nevertheless fails to animate the novel. In the end, the story and the characters remain remote. (Sept.)Book Details
Published
October 1, 1993
Publisher
Pelican Publishing Company
Pages
224
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780882897837