Long-listed for the NBCC's John Leonard Prize A Seattle TimesBest Book of the Year
The gripping story of a dramatic eighteenth-century voyage of discovery from Naomi J. Williams
In 1785, the Laperouse expedition left Brest with two frigates, more than two hundred men, and overblown ideals and expectations, in a brave attempt to circumnavigate the globe for science and the glory of France. This astonishingly inventive novel charts the course of their adventure.
Deeply grounded in historical fact but refracted through a...
Long-listed for the NBCC's John Leonard Prize A Seattle TimesBest Book of the Year
