Marguerite De LA Roque: A Story of Survival

by Elizabeth H. Boyer

Book Overview

Marguerite De LA Roque: A Story of Survival This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0915964015
• ISBN13: 9780915964017
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Veritie Pr
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.3" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Haunting

This is probably one of the best books that I have ever read. Because it was based on a true story, it haunted me for months after reading it. This is one that I will definitely reread some time in the future.

Fascinating

A Story of Survival is definitely a must read. I read thisbook of almost 400 hundred pages in a span of a couple ofnights. I could not put it down. I was totally unaware ofthis historical fact. I found the soiled paperback book on saleat the library for ten cents. I am surprised that we weretaught nothing about this in school. I cannot relate how Ireally fell about this book.

"Survival" shows the harsh nature of new world in the 1540s

Elizabeth Boyer's superb historical novel is based on an actual survivor's story. Marguerite and her elderly nurse are left to die on a island off the coast of Canada. Her guardian announces that she had disgraced him and is no longer a virgin. No one appeals her unjust sentence on trumped up charges. The young man who had hoped to marry her shares her exile. Together the three people, none of them trained in farming or house building struggle to erect shelter, and plant crops before winter comes. Thye must survive the harsh deadly cold. Boyer makes you feel the brutal cold, the heavy snows, the despair that sometimes afflicts the isolated trio. "Peggy's Cove" in Canada is a tourist attraction today- a testament to the courage of Marguerite, her Hugueneot suitor, their love and courage. Both Marguerite and her husband are French Huguenots who marry themselves from the Bible. (apparently this was a custom at the time when French Protestants faced persecution from the King and Catholic church). It is a story of ma,n/woman against nature, the against the absolutist corrupt royalist system, against depression. Boyer's book celebrate human courage, integrity, and love. This is the finest historical novel I have ever read. Elizabeth Boyer also authored the book A Colony of One that attempts to unravel Marguerite's identity. Conspiracy, records destroyed by her uncle made this a fascinating exercise in detection