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Thirteen Rivers / by Ruth Davis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, Ruth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, 1643-1687--Fiction.
- La Salle, Robert Cavelier.
- La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, 1643-1687.
- Explorers--Fiction.
- Louisiana--History--17th century--Fiction.
- Louisiana.
- Local Subjects:
- La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, 1643-1687--Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource (ii, 273 p.))
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Nacogdoches, Texas : Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- "Thirteen Rivers' is a tale of pirates, hurricanes, war parties, betrayal, revenge, ship-wreck, kidnapping and murder in a chronicle of events only life itself could inspire. What became of the 208 people who left France bound for La Louisiane? In 1685, French explorer Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle and his followers arrived on the Gulf coast seeking the mouth of the Mississippi River, tis fertile farmlands and lucrative profits of a year-round seaport. Instead he found a wilderness inhabited by Karankawa Indians, feral beats and misery, five-hundred miles off course of his intended destination. Was their leader a visionary of his time or a madman? And how was La Salle to know that, in reality, thirteen broad and treacherous rivers sprawled between his fort on the Gulf of Mexico and the might Mississippi. This is their story, retold from the journal pages of First Lieutenant Henri Jontel. -- Back cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781622881994
- 1622881990
- OCLC:
- 1105446554
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