The Beothuk Saga - Assiniwi, Bernard

Clean, tight, unmarked; light wear to lower back corner of cover at spine edge; otherwise absolute minimal wear; appears unread; This astounding novel tells the story of the Beothuk. Beginning 1000 years ago in the time of the Vikings in Newfoundland, this epic tale is crammed with incidents of war and peace, with fights to the death and long nights of lovemaking, and with accounts of the rise of local clan chiefs and the silent fall of great distant empires. Out of the mists of the past it sweeps forward 800 years, to the capture and lonely death of the young woman who was the last of her people. Bold and humane, ambitious and deeply moving, this book brilliantly revives the story of the Beothuks in a work of rare vision and power.
Near Fine
Soft cover
McClelland & Stewart
2001
Toronto, ON