New France and New York in the 1690s: an English boy and a French officer, Frontenac's Canada, the Iroquois, and a feud carried across thirty years and two colonies. Parker was Canadian-born, settled in England, sat in Parliament for eighteen years and was knighted; the Canada here is the real one — snowshoes, mission stations, the long war for the fur trade. Fifty-seven plates, from Antoine Rivalz to Edvard Munch, carry the winter forest, the snowbound coast and the battle line through the same northern world the novel fights across.
New France and New York in the 1690s: an English boy and a French officer, Frontenac's Canada, the Iroquois, and a feud carried across thirty years and two colonies. Parker was Canadian-born, settled in England, sat in Parliament for eighteen years and was knighted; the Canada here is the real on...