Author: William Douglas Fraser. Published by Amethyst Publications, Toronto, ON., 1978, 1st Edition. SIGNED by the Author. Printed in Canada by Haynes Printing Company, Cobourg, Ontario. Very Good Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with minor wear, and top right front cover damage from an old sticker. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 9 x 6 inch, 229 pages.
NOR'EAST FOR LOUISBURG, by William Douglas Fraser, is an adventure tale of sweeping grandeur...
It's the personal history of a youth who volunteered for war as a loyal subject of George II when New England rose against the French fortress of Louisburg commanding the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the approaches to Quebec and menacing the Boston fishery. And it's a romance in the true sense, as it tells of the fears and awareness of a vast world opening to the mind of a young soldier and mariner early away from home and toughened by the cruelty and challenge of armed conflict and the harsh reality of the elements.
The novel is based on a single page of pencil-written journal left behind by a young volunteer from Massachusetts: the author has not been able to determine the boy's name or where he lived but only that he served in Pomeroy's regiment at the capture of Louisburg in 1745.
