Northwest Passage (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Kenneth Roberts
- First Published: 1937
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: 1759-1768
- Setting: The United States and England
- Principal Characters: Langdon Towne, Robert Rogers, Sergeant McNott, Elizabeth Browne, Natty Potter, Anne Potter, John Singleton Copley, Hunk Marriner, Cap Huff
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: History, Power, personal or social, Art or artists, Marriage, 1930’s, Native Americans or American Indians, Eighteenth century, Self-confidence, Adventure, Frontier or pioneer life, Astronomy or astronomers, Intellect, Mountains, Northwest Passage, Silence
- Locales: United States, England
The Novel
Northwest Passage is divided into two parts dramatizing the career of Major Robert Rogers as the leader of Rogers’s Rangers during the French and Indian War and his subsequent failure as an explorer seeking a cross-continental northwest passage to the Pacific Ocean. Sharing focus is the novel’s single narrator Langdon Towne, a young artist from Maine who first joins Rogers in part 1, on Rogers’s 1759 military expedition against the hostile Indian village of St. Francis near the Canadian border, from which the French-supported Indians have conducted bloody...
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