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A fascinating yet littleknown figure in North American history the Frenchexplorer and mapmaker Samuel de Champlain was the subject of a recent bestselling biography by historian David Hackett Fischer. The Order of Good Cheer a highly readable novel by master storyteller Bill Gaston offers abeautifully shaded fictionalized portrait of Champlain as well as a marvelouswindow into Canadian culture past and present. In 1607 Champlain and hiscompanions struggled to establish a French colony on foreign soil while wardingoff scurvy. Separated by the breadth of a continent and exactly 400 years is21stcentury bluecollar worker Andy Winslow and his friends whose urbanlandscape is threatened by encroaching environmental and economic disaster. Inalternating narratives Gaston bridges the divide across land and time in thisilluminating story about survival love feast and friendship. «
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