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Author Name: Kenneth Roberts
Title: Northwest Passage
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Fair+
Publisher: Garden City Doubleday & Company 1937
Seller ID: 012794
Book in excellent, clean, unmarked and tight binding condition. Cover board spine bumped at head and tail from shelfwear. DJ in fair condition with wear to edges and minors tears. DJ price clipped. This classic novel follows the career of Major Rogers, whose incredible exploits during the French and Indian Wars are told through Langdon Towne, an artist and Harvard student who flees trouble to join the army. Kenneth Roberts' "Northwest Passage" is one of the great novels of the 1930's. Little remembered now, it is the story of Major Robert Rogers and the early Rangers of the French and Indian War. Most of the book is an accurate description of what occured during that time period, and one gets an incredible feel for the hardships and calamities that befall these men. The book is written in the first person as the narrator is one of the Major's trusted associates; the story involves both men and their lives together in the wilderness and much later when their paths cross once again near the end of the 18th Century. Rogers himself commanded the first real "commando" unit and he is the father of all subsequent outfits like the Green Berets, the Navy Seals etc. Kenneth Roberts was one of the great historical fiction writers of his day and anyone who is interested in this time period would be wise to read this book. It is truly a classic. 012794
Exploration, U.S. History, french and indian War, american History,
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