THE WILDERNESS WAY

by Merritt Parmelee Allen ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 1, 1954

The story of LaSalle's journey down the Mississippi is told by this practiced hand in sturdy narrative befitting the toughness of the times and the precarious life of the voyageurs. Eighteen year old Laurent, the young hero who rejects his brother's questionable fur dealings to join LaSalle as a greenhorn, provides a focus for the many contrasting, conflicting motives for the journey. LaSalle's determination, in the end revealed as a kind of fanaticism, has ironically similar ends to those of the priests who went along with him; there are the envious fur traders who try both to dissuade government support and to set Indian against Indian in order to further their own ends. Laurent lives through these conflicts personally, has them heightened by battle and tests of endurance that ultimately see the beginning of the realization of the dream of colonization. Substantial rapid shooting and shooting rapids fare.

Pub Date: March 1, 1954

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Longmans, Green

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1954

Categories: FICTION