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"History reveals itself when, in the seventeenth century, a Jesuit missionary ventures into the Canadian wilderness in search of converts-the defining moment of first contact between radically different worlds. What unfolds over the next several years is truly epic, constantly illuminating and surprising, sometimes comic, always entrancing and ultimately all too human in its tragic grandeur. Christophe has been in the New World only a year when his...

In 1535, thirteen-year-old Samuel de la Loire, from a wealthy and aristocratic family in St. Malo, France, yearns for adventure. He stows away on one of Jacques Cartier's ships, which is returning to the New World in search of gold and the mythical Kingdom of Saguenay. What he finds instead is a struggle for survival--especially after he is left behind when the ships sail back to France.