Updates on the Alma Powell Branch Library can be found on kpl.gov/pow

Book

1 of 1 Copy Available

  • CENTRAL: Second Floor

1 Copy for in-library use

  • CENTRAL: Local History
Log In to Place HoldAdd Author AlertMore Details

The last voyageurs : retracing La Salle's journey across America : sixteen teenagers on the Adventure of a lifetime

Call Numbers

  • 977.01 B6845 (CEN)
  • H 977.01 B6845 (CEN)

Browse similar titles by call number

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.

Share: Facebook Twitter