Louisbourg Portraits by Christopher Moore (2000, Trade Paperback)

McClelland & Stewart

0771060912

9780771060915

1953519

Louisbourg Portraits

288 Pages

English

Canada / General, Cultural Heritage, Canada / Pre-Confederation (To 1867), Canada / Atlantic Provinces (NB, Nl, ns, Pe), Adventurers & Explorers, Social History

2000

Yes

Travel, Biography & Autobiography, History

Christopher Moore

Trade Paperback

0.6 in

8.4 Oz

9 in

6 in

Trade

"As diverting as any novel." Calgary Herald "If any single book can develop an interest in Canadian history…this is surely the one. Quite simply, [this] is a tour de force." Atlantic Provinces Book Review

19

971.6/95

Each year, thousands of tourists flock to the Fortress of Louisbourg on the coast of Cape Breton Island to visit the reconstruction of part of the original eighteenth-century fort and town. Using the same records, diaries, letters, and charts that were used to recreate the site, Moore restores to vivid life five people who actually walked the streets of the colony over two hundred years ago. First published in 1982, this bestselling book of fascinating true stories represents what historian Desmond Morton calls "social history as it should be written."