Wacousta or, The Prophecy
A Tale of the Canadas
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Dec 1987
- Category
- General, Historical
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773573444
- Publish Date
- Dec 1987
- List Price
- $45.95
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Description
Set on the northwest frontier during the Pontiac conspiracy of the 1760s, this story of false identity, wasted love, diabolic vengeance and unquenchable hatred articulates themes and mythologies relevant to French, British, Canadian and American history.
About the author
JOHN RICHARDSON (1796-1852) was the first man in the Canadas who attempted to live on the monetary rewards of creative writing. He wrote a considerable amount of non-fiction, some poetry, and several novels. The most famous, Wacousta; or , The Prophecy: A Tale of the Canadas, an historical romance set in the Detroit Amherstburg area, made effective use of the ‘conspiracy’ of Pontiac, the Indian uprising of 1763.