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Boissoneault, Lorraine.
The last voyageurs :
retracing La Salle's journey across America : sixteen teenagers on the adventure of a lifetime /
Lorraine Boissoneault.
First Pegasus Books edition.
New York :
Pegasus Books,
2016.
New York :
Pegasus Books,
2016.
©2016.
xii, 275 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
color illustrations and photographs, map ;
24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-274).
Make no little plans -- Reconstructing the past -- The life of a voyageur -- The bonds of brotherhood -- Stuck between two worlds -- No trails but the waterways themselves -- Trapped at death's door -- "The beginning of our hardships" -- The most dangerous product the intellect has concocted -- Parallel voyages -- The green buoy.
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.
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La Salle, Robert Cavelier
sieur de
1643-1687
Travel
North America.
Historical reenactments
Mississippi River Valley.
Historical reenactments
Canada.
Mississippi River Valley
Discovery and exploration.
Canada
History
To 1763 (New France.)
United States
Centennial celebrations, etc.