Savage lands
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
Edition
1st Mariner Books ed.
Physical Desc
406 pages : map ; 21 cm
Status
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CLARK 2010
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FICTION CLARK 2010
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
Format
Book
Edition
1st Mariner Books ed.
Language
English
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"Mariner Books."
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"It is 1704 and, while the Sun King Louis XIV rules France from the splendour of Versailles, Louisiana, the new and vast colony named in his honour, is home to fewer than two hundred souls. When a demand is sent requesting wives be dispatched for the struggling settlers, Elisabeth is among the twenty-three girls who set sail from France to be married to men of whom they know absolutely nothing. Educated and skeptical, Elisabeth has little hope for happiness in her new life. It is to her astonishment that she, alone among the brides, finds herself passionately in love with her new husband, Jean-Claude, a charismatic and ruthlessly ambitious soldier. Auguste, a poor cabin boy from Rochefort, must also adjust to a startlingly unexpected future. Abandoned in a remote native village, he is charged by the colonys governor with mastering the tribes strange language while reporting back on their activities. It is there that he is befriended by Elisabeths husband as he begins the slow process of assimilation back into life among the French. The love Elisabeth and Auguste share for Jean-Claude changes both of their lives irrevocably. When in time he betrays them both, they find themselves bound together in ways they never anticipated. With the same compelling prose and vividly realized characters that won her widespread acclaim for THE GREAT STINK and THE NATURE OF MONSTERS, Clare Clark takes us deep into the heart of colonial French Louisiana."--,Provided by Amazon.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Clark, C. (2010). Savage lands (1st Mariner Books ed.). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Clark, Clare. 2010. Savage Lands. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Clark, Clare. Savage Lands Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Clark, Clare. Savage Lands 1st Mariner Books ed., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
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