Books by Tristan Hughes (1)
1.
Boundary Waters by Tristan Hughes EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
Canada 1804, the wild frontier. Arthur journeys into the wild wilderness in a birchbark canoe, with a ‘parcel of scoundrels’ led by the erratic drunkard McLeod. There is a treasure—a lost cache of valuable furs—its riches to be won.
The tale is told to Esther, a Saulteaux woman he meets along the journey.
Voyageurs were either ‘big wigs’, mostly Scotsmen, or ‘engagés’, mostly Frenchmen, then further divided according to skill and experience. Arthur being a novice, before his first experience of rapids, he undergoes a ‘baptism&rsquo... continue