Northwest Passage (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
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- Author: Kenneth Roberts
- First Published: 1937
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: 1759-1768
- Setting: The United States and England
- Principal Characters: Langdon Towne, Robert Rogers, John Singleton Copley, Elizabeth Browne, Natty Potter, Ann Potter, Sergeant McNott, General Amherst, Sir William Johnson, Sir Charles Townsend, Sir Joshua Reynolds, William Hogarth, 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
NORTHWEST PASSAGE is considered by many to be the best of Kenneth Roberts’ historical novels. Certainly, it has scope, painting as it does a mural of the surging of the shorebound colonies to push westward toward the Pacific Ocean in the mid-eighteenth century. All the aspects of the story are here: the opportunists who saw in the vast country stretching to the west the chance to attain wealth and power, the dreamers who went exploring as a mountain climber climbs a mountain, because it was there; the old warriors, unable to find a place in the tamed colonies along the...
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