Savage lands
By: Clare Clark
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781846553516; 9780547386430
Subjects: History; Soldiers; Feral children; Mail order brides; French fiction; Fiction
Description: In 1704 the French colony of Louisiana needs wives for the struggling settlers and Elisabeth and twenty-three other girls are dispatched to satisfy the request. The skeptical bride soon falls in love with her charismatic and ruthlessly ambitious soldier-husband, Jean-Claude, a passion which is shared by an abandoned cabin boy, Auguste, who has also fallen under the spell of the dashing Jean-Claude. When in time Jean-Claude betrays them both, the two find themselves bound together in ways they never anticipated.
Notes: Maps on cover linings.