Acadia
- Publisher
- Pottersfield Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2004
- Category
- Historical
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781895900620
- Publish Date
- Apr 2004
- List Price
- $22.95
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Description
" a rollicking read about the escapades of those larger-than-life characters who dominated the early days of European thirst for dominance in the New World..." Atlantic Books Today Acadia is based on the true story of the blood feud that founded the French colony and the two very different married couples at the centre of it.
About the author
Alfred Silver has been a playwright, an actor and a songwriter,as well as a short-order cook, nude model and day labourer.He grew up in various places across the Canadian prairies. Heis the author of seventeen previous books including Acadia (seepage 15), which won the Thomas Raddall Award for Fiction.He lives with his wife in a farmhouse at Ardoise, Nova Scotia,and devotes his time to researching and writing historicalnovels.