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AUTHOR Elphinstone, Margaret. TITLE Voyageurs : a novel / Margaret Elphinstone. IMPRINT New York : Canongate U.S., c2003. DESCRIPT vii, 466 p. : map ; 22 cm. SUBJECT Women missionaries -- Fiction. Missing persons -- Fiction. Brothers and sisters -- Fiction. English -- Canada -- Fiction. Canada -- History -- 1791-1841 -- Fiction. Historical fiction. ISBN 1841955493.
"The year is 1811 and the fledgling U.S. empire is about to embark on war with Britain. Mark Greenhow, a young, peaceful Quaker, leaves northern England to find his sister, Rachel, a missionary missing and presumed dead in the wilds of wartime Canada. As a result, this thoughtful, earnest young man is thrown into a world of roughneck fur traders, British spies, and embattled Native Americans while struggling to survive in deepest Canada. Along the way, his religious convictions and familial loyalty are tested by the passion evoked in him by a beautiful young woman he encounters in his travels."--BOOK JACKET.