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Crosses in the Sky: Jean de Brébeuf and the Destruction of Huronia
By Bourrie, Mark
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- 9781771966177
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Reviewed on August 23, 2024 | Social Sciences
RBC Taylor Prize winner Bourrie (Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson) tells the dramatic story of Jean de Brébeuf, a French Jesuit priest who played an outsized role in the destruction of the Huron homeland in North America during the 1630s and 1640s. It takes the now-mythologized tale of Brébeuf and contextualizes it in the contemporaneous multidimensional crosscurrents of that violent era. Fra...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
