A new translation of "l'Enfant perdu et retrouve ou Pierre Cholet" by J.-B. Proulx with new maps, notes, and illus. is for all readers of adventure stories and history. It is a true story of one man's perseverance despite his many hardships to return home. In 1845, five-year-old Pierre Cholet is kidnapped along with his brother and cousin from rural Quebec. The kidnapper eludes a manhunt of 400 parishioners and sells the boys to a French sea captain sailing to St. Malo, France. Thirty-six years later, Cholet alone returns home. Cholet tells his story to the author J.-B. Proulx, relating the...
A new translation of "l'Enfant perdu et retrouve ou Pierre Cholet" by J.-B. Proulx with new maps, notes, and illus. is for all readers of adventure st...