A Discovery Of Strangers Paperback by Rudy Wiebe

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage Canada (1995-09-26)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 336 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780394280837
• Item Weight: 277.83 grams
• Dimensions: 7.98 x 5.18 x 0.89 cm

A Discovery of Strangers is a story—based on true events—of love and innocence, murder, greed and passion set within the terrifying, fragile Arctic landscape. In 1820, John Franklin’s small group of British officers and Canadian voyageurs, on their first Expedition to search for a route through the incomprehensible North, encountered the Yellowknife Indians—and Greenstockings, fifteen-year-old daughter of Keskarrah, elder of the Yellowknife, met young Robert Hood, son of a Lancashire clergyman. Wordless, they devise a language of their own as their two worlds clash.

About the Author

RUDY WIEBE's novels, stories and essays stand at the forefront of Canadian literature. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada. He has won the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction twice, for The Temptations of Big Bear and for A Discovery of Strangers. He is also the co-author of Stolen Life, which won the Viacom Canada Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize, the Saskatchewan Book Award for Non-Fiction and the Alberta Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction. His memoir, Of This Earth, won the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction and was a national bestseller.