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A young French boy narrates episodic adventures while traveling the continent's great river with early voyageurs and traders, offering vivid sketches of exploration and daily life on the frontier. The stories recount canoe voyages and mapping, encounters and trade with Indigenous communities, hunting and ritual moments, dangers of rapids and wrecks, skirmishes with raiders, and visits to forts and settlements. Each chapter presents a self-contained episode that blends practical travel detail with atmospheric scenes of riverine mystery and hardship.

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Title: Strange Stories of the Great River: The Adventures of a Boy Explorer

Author: Abbie Johnston Grosvenor

Illustrator: Walt Louderback

Release date: February 17, 2015 [eBook #48295]
Most recently updated: October 24, 2024

Language: English

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STRANGE STORIES OF THE
OF THE GREAT RIVER


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HE HAD THE UNCANNY FEELING OF BEING WATCHED


STRANGE STORIES
OF THE
GREAT RIVER

THE ADVENTURES OF A BOY EXPLORER

BY
JOHNSTON GROSVENOR

ILLUSTRATED

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON


Strange Stories of the Great River


Copyright, 1918, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America
Published May, 1918