" a rollicking read about the escapades of those larger-than-life characters who dominated the early days of European thirst for dominance in the New World…" Atlantic Books Today Acadia is based on the true story of the blood feud that founded the French colony and the two very different married couples at the centre of it.
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"If piecing together a story out of history is like puzzling out the doings of nocturnal creatures by the tracks left to the morning, the civil war that founded Acadia is a few smudgy pawprints in melted snow," writes Silver in the author's note following his tale of Acadia, the fur-trading colony in 17th-century Nova Scotia. Drawing from vague shadows of history, Silver (The Red River Trilogy) recreates an era of deadly violence and lusty romance as Charles de La Tour and his bride Francoise squabble with Charles and Jeanne d'Aulnay over the governorship of Acadia. France's attempt to solve the probelm by drawing a line down Baye Francoise (now the Bay of Fundy) only made the battle more bitter. This is a fine novel filled with historical fact and detail but it is also proof that Silver is a master storyteller as well.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Three centuries ago on the coast of Nova Scotia intrepid Frenchmen built a wealthy fur-trading colony they called Acadia. On one side of the beautiful Baye Françoise reigned aristocratic Sicur d'Aulnay. On the other, the rebel Charles La Tour and his wife, a retired actress, held sway. There was fierce enmity between them, and in France, wily old Cardinal Richelieu was pleased that it should be so.
But to the Acadians the escalating violence brought only fear and suffering. And before long, La Tour and d'Aulnay *and everyone they each held dear *were to be trapped in the machinery of hatred they had set in motion. . . .
ACADIA is the thrilling true story of real men and women *ancestors of the Louisiana Cajuns *who gambled on a dream and an unforeseeable destiny. It is distinguished historical novelist Alfred Silver's finest work. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
But to the Acadians the escalating violence brought only fear and suffering. And before long, La Tour and d'Aulnay *and everyone they each held dear *were to be trapped in the machinery of hatred they had set in motion. . . .
ACADIA is the thrilling true story of real men and women *ancestors of the Louisiana Cajuns *who gambled on a dream and an unforeseeable destiny. It is distinguished historical novelist Alfred Silver's finest work. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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My Acadian Roots,
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This review is from: Acadia (Mass Market Paperback)
I am a genealogist who has traced her Acadian Roots back for more then 300 years. This work of historical fiction is remarkably close to the facts. I have stumbled upon many of the names of the characters used in the book in my own research. The book is very well written. It is full of excitement and drama. It is as if the Author himself was there in the midst of the early Acadian's struggle to carve out a place for themselves in this new land of Acadie, in Eastern Canada. Thank you, Alfred Silver for doing such a fine job telling the Acadian's,(forefathers of the Cajuns), story.
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I need a copy of this book. I understand it is not in print. If anyone has a copy or knows where to find a copy of Acadia written by Alfred Silver, please contact me at rocketvision@hotmail.com. Thankyou.
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So involving, very authentic! Alfred Silver fantastic!,
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This review is from: Acadia (Mass Market Paperback)
What else can I say. Alfred Silver wrote "Acadia" like he was there. He placed the characters perfectly, and flaulessly.
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