Savage Lands - Softcover

Clark, Clare

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0547386435 ISBN 13: 9780547386430

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2010

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date :2011-12-1 Pages: 406 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin It is 1704 and. while the Sun King Louis XIV rules France fromthe splendour of Versailles. Louisiana. the new and vast colonynamed in his honour. is home to fewer than two hundred souls. Whena demand is sent requesting wives be dispatched for the strugglingsettlers. Elisabeth is among the twenty-three girls who set sailfrom France to be married to men of whom they know absolutelynothing. Educated and skeptical. Elisabeth has little hope forhappiness in her new life. It is to her astonishment that she. alone among the brides. finds herself passionately in love with hernew husband. Jean-Claude. a charismatic and ruthlessly ambitioussoldier. Auguste. a poor cabin boy from Rochefort. must also adjustto a startlingly unexpected future. Abandoned in a remote nativevillage. he is charged by the colonys governor w...

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Review:

"The author treats the founding of French Louisiana with her signature dark realism and beautiful handling of character, plot, and pacing. Readers of Clark's earlier novels will enjoy this; it should also appeal to those interested in women's, French, New Orleans, or colonial-period history and in Native Americans." -- Library Journal "Clark's vast store of historical and geographical detail enriches the portraits of her three vibrant characters, whose destinies are inextricably, and memorably, bound." --Booklist

Book Description:

Love and betrayal among the first French settlers in the New World. Historial fiction at its absolute best - page-turning, though-provoking, heart-breaking.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0547386435
• ISBN 13: 9780547386430
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384