Louisbourg Portraits - Softcover

Moore, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0771060912 ISBN 13: 9780771060915

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, 2000

Synopsis

Each year, thousands of tourists flock to the Fortress of Louisbourg on the coast of Cape Breton Island to visit the reconstruction of part of the original eighteenth-century fort and town. Using the same records, diaries, letters, and charts that were used to recreate the site, Moore restores to vivid life five people who actually walked the streets of the colony over two hundred years ago. First published in 1982, this bestselling book of fascinating true stories represents what historian Desmond Morton calls “social history as it should be written.”

About this title

From the Back Cover:

“As diverting as any novel.”
–Calgary Herald

“If any single book can develop an interest in Canadian history...this is surely the one. Quite simply, [this] is a tour de force.”
–Atlantic Provinces Book Review

About the Author:

Christopher Moore may be Canada’s most versatile writer of history. His first book, Louisbourg Portraits, won a Governor General’s Award and continues to delight readers, and his Loyalists: Revolution, Exile, Settlement won the Secretary of State’s Prize for Excellence in Canadian Studies. He co-authored the authoritative Illustrated History of Canada, and his history of Canada for young people, The Story of Canada (co-authored with Janet Lunn), was a bestseller and won the Mister Christie Award for Children’s Books. He has also written The Law Society of Upper Canada and Ontario’s Lawyers, Canada: Our Country (co-authored with Mark Kingwell), and 1867: How the Fathers Made a Deal. He has made many radio documentaries for CBC-Radio’s “Ideas” and writes a column for The Beaver.

Christopher Moore lives in Toronto.

About this edition

• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0771060912
• ISBN 13: 9780771060915
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288