Quietly My Captain Waits is a thrilling novel of two lovers whose fates are sealed by the fateful clash of Empire in early eighteenth-century Acadia.
This historical romance is based on the real-life love of two bold residents of New France--the fiery Louise de Freneuse, married and widowed twice, and Pierre de Bonaventure, Captain in the French Navy. Their doomed relationship helps them endure the day-to-day struggles in the besieged frontier settlement of Port Royal.
Quietly My Captain Waits sees beyond the cold facts of history into the hearts of Acadian settlers, government officials and Native allies.
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EVELYN EATON was born in Switzerland in 1902 and educated in Canada and England. Perpetually rebellious and unconventional, she wrote many novels, many with themes drawing on Nova Scotian history.

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Barry Moody holds a BA (Hons.) degree from Acadia University and MA and PhD degrees from Queen’s University. He taught history at Acadia from 1970 to 2013. He has written extensively on the history of the New England Planters, eighteenth-century Nova Scotia, and higher education in Canada. He was a founding member of the Annapolis Heritage Society. Barry lives in Port Royal, Nova Scotia, with his wife, Sharon.

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Gwendolyn Davies is an emerita professor of English and dean of graduate studies at the University of New Brunswick. She has published or edited six books and over sixty articles and book chapters on pre-1940 Atlantic literature and on the history of the book in Canada. Books include Studies in Maritime Literary History and a scholarly edition of Thomas McCulloch’s The Mephibosheth Stepsure Letters.

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"In reissuing an affordable edition of Quietly My Captain Waits, Formac has preformed the extremely valuable service of reintroducing Canadians to an entertaining novel and intriguing writer."

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