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A Quaker’s faith is tested during the War of 1812 in this “stunning work of historical fiction” ( Kirkus Reviews , starred review). Mark Greenhow, a naive and peaceful Quaker, lands on the shores of North America on the eve of the War of 1812, thinking only of finding the missing sister, a missionary whose adventurous spirit he has always admired. His pursuit begins by hitching a ride with the voyageurs who have canoed the rivers, transporting the tons of furs that feed the trade that has made the region a battleground of the French and British empires. Though Mark enters this brave new world with his conscience clean and his convictions sound, his encounters with a place and people he never could have imagined test his rigid upbringing. The backwoods of Canada have certainly led his sister astray; she has been excommunicated from the Society of Friends for running off with a non-Quaker. After her child is stillborn she runs again, deep into Indian country. On this increasingly desperate search, Mark finds himself among spies and domestic warriors, displaced natives, infidels, and the pious each engaged in their own battles to maintain their particular way of life. With Elphinstone

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Author

Elphinstone, Margaret

Publisher

Grove Atlantic

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802191519

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.94 / 5 (156 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14