then live like a beggar.“
Overview:
Not many people live a life as rich and as full of peril as the explorer Pierre Radisson. Fortunate to have found the six journals he wrote in 1665 and 1685 after 200 years of being forgotten in the Bodelien Library at Oxford University, his exploits in the New World come alive in this new work written as a biographical novel. For nearly 100 years scholars and historians have struggled to understand and enjoy his life journey across the Great Lakes and into Hudson Bay because the English translation of his journals were so terrible and difficult to understand, but now in this work readers can enjoy his incredible feats, such as being the first European to meet the Plains Indians in modern-day Wisconsin, his kidnapping and torture by the Mohawks, as well as the mind-blowing perseverance and struggles through starvation during the winters of 1654 and 1655. Once the first page is read, the reader will be impelled to read every page of this true story…
- The Life Story of Pierre Radisson: A Novel (Read on a webpage on this site)
- Life Story of Pierre Radisson: A Novel (Part 2)
- Life Story of Pierre Radisson: A Novel (Part 3)
- Life Story of Pierre Radisson: A Novel (Part 4)
More about THE LIFE STORY OF PIERRE RADISSON: UNSUNG HERO OF THE NEW WORLD…
Following the original journals throughout the novel, the work has over 400 footnotes, often using Radisson’s own descriptions of the peoples, their customs the rigors of the travel and the untouched beauty of the world as it was west of Montreal. The great struggle for control of the beaver trade between England and France played out in the early years between 1625 and 1685 when they fought against each and against the natives for profits and power. But there was one man, along with his brother-in-law Groseilliers, who were instrumental in the outcome that saw the founding of the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1670 and the struggle for control of the trading posts in the great sea of the north as well as the pursuit for the Northwest Passage to India. The Great Game in the New World was indeed a thrilling showdown between different factions, and it was Pierre Radisson who held all the cards…
243 pages (105993 words)
Author’s note: This biographical novel is an incredible true life story of a true explorer…