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Champlain's Dream |
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| Format | Softcover | |
| Catalogue No. | 978-0-307-39767-6 | |
| Pages | 834 | |
| Language | English only | |
| Price | $24.95 | |
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| Written by David Hackett Fischer. Paperback edition published by Vintage Canada, 2009 (Hardcover edition published 2008 by Alfred A. Knopf Canada). Description: |
| Champlain's Dream brings to life a remarkable
man. It is the enthralling story of an adventurer who was also an able leader
with a rare vision for a new world founded on harmony and respect – where
Europeans and Aboriginals would cooperate for mutual benefit. A complex,
elusive man among many colourful characters, Samuel de Champlain participated
in palace intrigues, endured raging storms at sea and fought with his Indian
allies in ferocious wars. In this sweeping biography, acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winner David Hackett Fischer magnificently captures the life of a visionary adventurer who has straddled our history for 400 years. Champlain's Dream reveals, with rare immediacy and drama, the story of a remarkable man: a leader who dreamed of humanity and peace in a world torn apart by violence; a man of his own time who nevertheless strove to build a settlement in Canada that would be founded on harmony and respect. Drawing on Champlain's own exquisite drawings, maps, diaries, accounts, as well as evidence of archaeology and the natural world, Fischer shows Champlain to have been a keen observer of a vanished world. "With Fischer's Champlain's Dream, all earlier biographies … no longer serve any useful purpose. This is a massive, scholarly work, logically organized and clearly written as befits a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian … Fischer goes through the rest of Champlain's life in admirable detail." — The Globe and MailAbout the author: David Hackett Fischer is University Professor and Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University in Massachusetts. The recipient of many prizes and awards for his teaching and writing, he is the author of numerous books, including Washington's Crossing, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2005. |
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