Perilous Passage by Bj Bayle

Perilous Passage by Bj Bayle

Shortlisted for the 2009 Red Maple Award and commended in Best Books for Kids & Teens

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.

Bayle, B. J.: -

B.J. Bayle's Battle Cry at Batoche was a Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice, while Perilous Passage, about explorer and mapmaker David Thompson, was nominated for a Red Maple Award. Also the author of Shadow Riders, about the RCMP's early history, she lives in Cochrane, Alberta.

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ISBN 13	9781550026894
ISBN 10	1550026895
Titel	Perilous Passage
Autor	Bj Bayle
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Dundurn Group Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	2008-01-17
Seitenanzahl	184
Preise	Commended for Best Books for Kids & Teens 2009 (Canada), Short-listed for Silver Birch Award 2009 (Canada)
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