A Bond forged in Whitewater
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From the rapids of the Winnipeg to the Nile expedition to Khartoum to save General Gordon, a British officer and an Ojibwe bowsman forge an unlikely friendship as they battle wild rivers, war, and the forces of empire. Inspired by true events and drawn from the writings of W. F. Butler, this brilliantly imagined novel follows two men whose extraordinary bond was forged in the world's most unforgiving waters.
In 1870, as the Red River Expedition under General Wolseley pushed through Canada's northwest, a British officer, Lieutenant W.F. Butler, struggled through the whitewater of the Winnipeg River to bring important intelligence to the general in the company of Prince, an Ojibwe bowsman whose mastery of the river was unchallenged. Bound together by danger and endurance, they travelled the continent as far as the Rocky Mountains to report on the native tribes struggling against the smallpox epidemic and the extermination of the buffalo.
Fourteen years later, fate brought them together again-this time on the Nile. In 1884, Butler and Prince joined a remarkable contingent of Canadian voyageurs and boatmen recruited by Britain for its desperate attempt to rescue General Gordon, besieged at Khartoum by the Mahdi. Fighting their way through the Nile's treacherous cataracts under the relentless desert sun, they faced a journey as perilous as any they had known in Canada. A Bond Forged in Whitewater is an epic historical novel of courage, loyalty, and survival.
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