A Discovery of Strangers

Rudy Wiebe

ISBN 10: 0394280504 / ISBN 13: 9780394280509

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Toronto, Canada, 1994

About this Item

12mo-over 6¾-7¾" tall. In mint condition, book and jacket, this Governor General's Award Winner is set in 1820 when John Franklin's first Expedition encountered the Yellowknife Indians, on whom the explorers would depend for their survival in the search for a route through the Arctic. A must read novel for those following the Franklin saga, based on historical journals of young Robert Hood, son of a Lancashire clergyman."Weibe weaves a novel of mesmerizing intensity around their story and around the men and women-the Yellowknife families, British officers and Canadian voyageurs-caught up so strangely and inextricably together, enmeshing us ina world that will swiftly change forever.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Discovery of Strangers
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Toronto, Canada
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394280504
• ISBN 13: 9780394280509
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Publisher
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New in As New jacket

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Synopsis

A Discovery of Strangers is a story--based on true events--of love and innocence, murder, greed and passion set within the terrifying, fragile Arctic landscape. In 1820, John Franklin's small group of British officers and Canadian voyageurs, on their first expedition to search for a route through the incomprehensible North, encounter the Yellowknife Indians -- and Greenstockings, fifteen-year-old daughter of Keskarrah, elder of the Yellowknife, meets young Robert Hood, son of a Lancashire clergyman. Wordless, they devise a language of their own as their two worlds clash.