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The last voyageurs : retracing La Salle's journey across America : sixteen teenagers on the Adventure of a lifetime
Edition
First Pegasus Books edition.
Publication Information
New York : Pegasus Books, 2016.
Physical Description
xii, 275 pages : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Summary
In 1976, America's bicentennial, 24 young men set out to re-create French explorer La Salle's voyage down the entire length of the Mississippi River, abandoning their modern identities in order to live like the voyageurs of the 1600s.
Contents
- Make no little plans
- Reconstructing the past
- The life of a voyageur
- The bonds of brotherhood
- Stuck between two worlds
- No trails but the waterways themselves
- Trapped at death's door
- "The beginning of our hardships"
- The most dangerous product the intellect has concocted
- Parallel voyages
- The green buoy.