Hunting for the Mississippi

Name: Hunting for the Mississippi
Brand: Baraka Books
SKU: 9781771860734
Price: 9.99 EUR
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ISBN: 978-1-771-86073-4

de Camille Bouchard (auteur), Peter McCambridge (traduction)

Maison d'édition : Baraka Books

avril 2016

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Résumé

The year is 1684. Young Eustache Bréman leaves a life of misery begging on the streets of France for a second chance in the New World with his mom, his sweetheart Marie-Élisabeth, and Marie-Élisabeth’s family. But life is tough, with plenty more tragedy and disappointment to come on Cavelier De La Salle’s ill-fated expedition to the Mississippi. Mutinous leaders, bloodthirsty freebooters, a hostile Karankawa nation and the wild Gulf Coast bayous make for heartbreaking adventure. Weaving real historical events into the day-to-day concerns of a young boy, this action-packed novel poses some troubling questions along the way. Will God answer Eustache’s prayers? Will young love conquer all? Or will the men’s true nature be revealed and bring about their downfall?

Auteur

Camille Bouchard (auteur)

Camille Bouchard est né à Forestville en 1955. En 2002, il fait paraître au Boréal le roman qui le convaincra de vivre désormais de sa plume : La Marque des lions. Aujourd’hui auteur de plus de cent dix titres, il a été lauréat du Prix littéraire du Gouverneur général en 2005 et en a été finaliste à huit reprises, notamment pour Cicatrices (Boréal, 2020), le dernier volume de la série Le Siècle des malheurs.
Peter McCambridge (Traduit par)

Originally from Ireland, Peter McCambridge holds a BA in modern languages from Cambridge University, England, and has lived in Quebec City since 2003. He runs Québec Reads and now QC Fiction. Life in the Court of Matane was the first novel he chose for this collection and the book that made him want to become a literary translator in the first place. His translation of the first chapter won the 2012 John Dryden Translation Prize.