A Discovery of Strangers

by Rudy Wiebe

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394280830
• ISBN13: 9780394280837
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Vintage Books Canada
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

First-rate historical fiction

This is an excellent fictional account of Franklin's *overland* expedition to the Arctic Ocean. Through the device of multiple narration, it presents us with both the Aboriginal and European perspective on the events. Wiebe did his homework: the novel is solidly based on the first-hand accounts of Franklin, Back, Hearne, and others. The influence of Faulkner is evident in narrative style, prose style and theme. Faulkner's great story The Bear was clearly an influence