The last voyageurs
Subtitle: retracing La Salle's journey across America : sixteen teenagers on the adventure of a lifetime
By: Lorraine Boissoneault
Edition: First Pegasus Books edition.
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781605989761
Subjects: Travel; Discovery and exploration; Historical reenactments; Centennial celebrations; History
Description: In 1976, America's bicentennial, 24 young men set out to re-create French explorer La Salle's voyage down the entire length of the Mississippi River, abandoning their modern identities in order to live like the voyageurs of the 1600s.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-274).
Table of contents: title: Make no little plans; title: Reconstructing the past; title: The life of a voyageur; title: The bonds of brotherhood; title: Stuck between two worlds; title: No trails but the waterways themselves; title: Trapped at death's door; title: "The beginning of our hardships"; title: The most dangerous product the intellect has concocted; title: Parallel voyages; title: The green buoy.