Savage Lands

Name: Savage Lands
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ISBN: 9780547386430

ISBN-10: 0547386435

ISBN-13: 9780547386430

Edition: 2009

Authors: Clare Clark

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It is 1704 and, while the Sun King Louis XIV rules France from the splendour of Versailles, Louisiana, the new and vast colony named in his honour, is home to fewer than two hundred souls. When a demand is sent requesting wives be dispatched for the struggling settlers, Elisabeth is among the twenty-three girls who set sail from France to be married to men of whom they know absolutely nothing. Educated and skeptical, Elisabeth has little hope for happiness in her new life. It is to her astonishment that she, alone among the brides, finds herself passionately in love with her new husband, Jean-Claude, a charismatic and ruthlessly ambitious soldier.Auguste, a poor cabin boy from Rochefort,…

Book details

List price: $22.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/4/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 0.638

Clare Clark is the author of four highly acclaimed historical novels: The Great Stink, Savage Lands (both longlisted for the Orange Prize),The Nature of Monsters and Beautiful Lies, which was longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction in 2013. Born in 1967, she graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge with a double first in History, and now lives in London with her husband and two children.