Acadia [Paperback]

"If piecing together a story out of history is like puzzling out the doings of nocturnal creatures by the tracks left to the morning, the civil war that founded Acadia is a few smudgy pawprints in melted snow," writes Silver in the author's note following his tale of Acadia, the fur-trading colony in 17th-century Nova Scotia. Drawing from vague shadows of history, Silver (The Red River Trilogy) recreates an era of deadly violence and lusty romance as Charles de La Tour and his bride Francoise squabble with Charles and Jeanne d'Aulnay over the governorship of Acadia. France's attempt to solve the probelm by drawing a line down Baye Francoise (now the Bay of Fundy) only made the battle more bitter. This is a fine novel filled with historical fact and detail but it is also proof that Silver is a master storyteller as well.
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" a rollicking read about the escapades of those larger-than-life characters who dominated the early days of European thirst for dominance in the New World…" Atlantic Books Today Acadia is based on the true story of the blood feud that founded the French colony and the two very different married couples at the centre of it.

Winner of the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize, Alfred Silver has published nine novels. The author grew up in various places across the Canadian prairies. He now lives with his wife in a farm house at Ardoise, Nova Scotia, and devotes his time to researching and writing historical novels or anything else someone will pay him to write.