Books by Clare Clark
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review 1: This followed the lives of Elisabeth Savaret, essentially a mail-order bride for the new French colony of Louisiana, and Auguste, a young Frenchman, as they try to adjust to their new lives and the Louisiana wilderness. I liked the first chapter where we are introduced to Elisab...
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review 1: French Louisiana in 1704 was a vast, mostly unexplored wilderness, with fewer than 200 colonists living there. Clark's book really gives a vivid and realistic picture of the environment settlers of Mobile and New Orleans faced: constant sickness, with hordes of insects, rats, and...