Perilous Passage

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Price: $11.99
ISBN13: 9781550026894

Width:  5.25  Inches
Height:  8.25  Inches
Pages:  176
Format:  Paperback
Publication Date:  June 30, 2007
Illustrations:  None
Publisher:  Dundurn Press

Description

After a shipwreck in 1809, Peter finds himself the victim of amnesia. The sea captain who finds the teenager gives him the only name he knows, while others derisively dub him Peter No-Name. Eventually, Peter finds employment in a Montreal tavern where he meets a French voyageur called Boulard who changes his life irrevocably.

Boulard works for fur trader David Thompson, soon to become one of the world‘s most famous explorers and mapmakers. Thompson is impressed with the teenager and enlists him in his obsessive quest to establish an overland “northwest” passage to the Pacific Ocean via the Columbia River.

With Thompson, Peter embarks on an amazing series of adventures that brings him face to face with hostile Natives and exposes him to the hardships and life-threatening challenges of formidable mountains and primeval forests as the intrepid outdoorsmen canoe, ride, and sled across a continent still largely untouched by European civilization.

Author

B.J. Bayle‘s first children‘s novel, Mystery at Meander Lake, made Canadian Living‘s Recommended Reading List. Her second book, Trail of Fire, was shortlisted for the Alberta Writing for Children Competition. Battle Cry at Batoche, her bestselling novel about the 1885 North-West Rebellion, is also available from Dundurn. She lives in Cochrane, Alberta.

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