Knopf 1994, First Edition , Hardcover , Near Fine in Fine dust jacket . Hardcover & jacket in excellent condition. - wear is very light. Interior clean & tight except for small inscription on first blank pages. 317 pages. A Discovery of Strangers tells of the meeting of two civilizations - the first encounter of the nomadic Dene people with Europeans. In an imaginative reconstruction of John Franklin's first map-making expedition in 1819-21 in what is now the Northwest Territories. At the heart of the novel is a love story between twenty-two-year-old midshipman Robert Hood, the Franklin expedition;s artist, and a fifteen-year-old Yellowknife girl known to the British as Greenstockings. ; 000923; 8vo - over 7" to 9.5" tall.

Dene, Yellowknife, Historical fiction