false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255637455m/6626720.jpg 6626720 1 <DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV>It is 1704 and, while the Sun King Louis XIV rules France from the splendour of Versailles, Louisiana, the new and vast colony named in his honour, is home to fewer than two hundred souls. When a demand is sent requesting wives be dispatched for the struggling settlers, Elisabeth is among the twenty-three girls who set sail from France to be married to men of whom they know absolutely nothing. Educated and skeptical, Elisabeth has little hope for happiness in her new life. It is to her astonishment that she, alone among the brides, finds herself passionately in love with her new husband, Jean-Claude, a charismatic and ruthlessly ambitious soldier. <P></P><DIV>Auguste, a poor cabin boy from Rochefort, must also adjust to a startlingly unexpected future. Abandoned in a remote native village, he is charged by the colony?s governor with mastering the tribe?s strange language while reporting back on their activities. It is there that he is befriended by Elisabeth?s husband as he begins the slow process of assimilation back into life among the French. <P></P><DIV>The love Elisabeth and Auguste share for Jean-Claude changes both of their lives irrevocably. When in time he betrays them both, they find themselves bound together in ways they never anticipated. <P></P><P>With the same compelling prose and vividly realized characters that won her widespread acclaim for THE GREAT STINK and THE NATURE OF MONSTERS, Clare Clark takes us deep into the heart of colonial French Louisiana.</P></DIV> 6820991 book 2 2 2010 Savage Lands 0 0 16 0 0 0 false false Thu Nov 26 11:19:59 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 26 11:19:59 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Nov 26 09:05:29 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 26 09:05:29 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Nov 16 17:27:16 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 17:27:16 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Nov 12 06:23:35 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 06:23:35 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 11 11:36:09 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 11:36:09 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Nov 10 07:38:54 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 07:48:49 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Nov 09 13:35:29 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 13:35:29 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 30 09:29:46 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 09:29:46 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Oct 26 16:55:58 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 16:55:58 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 23 12:13:39 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 12:13:39 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Oct 19 02:32:48 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 02:32:48 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Oct 17 13:40:34 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 13:41:18 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 09 23:15:39 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 23:15:39 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Sep 28 05:17:03 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 05:17:03 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Aug 22 15:39:24 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 15:39:24 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jul 18 17:20:36 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 17:20:36 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6626720