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Perilous Passage
Perilous Passage
Perilous Passage
B.J. Bayle
Shortlisted for the 2009 Red Maple Award and commended in Best Books for Kids & Teens After a shipwreck in 1809, Peter finds himself the victim of amnesia. The sea captain who finds the teenager gives him the only name he knows, while others derisively dub him Peter No-Name. Eventually, Peter finds employment in a Montreal tavern where he meets a French voyageur called Boulard who changes his life irrevocably. Boulard works for fur trader David Thompson, soon to become one of the world’s most famous explorers and mapmakers. Thompson is impressed with the teenager and enlists him in his obsessive quest to establish an overland "northwest" passage to the Pacific Ocean via the Columbia River. With Thompson, Peter embarks on an amazing series of adventures that brings him face to face with hostile Natives and exposes him to the hardships and life-threatening challenges of formidable mountains and primeval forests as the intrepid outdoorsmen canoe, ride, and sled across a continent still largely untouched by European civilization.

Book Details

Genre: 

  • Adventure
  • Fiction
  • Juvenile Fiction

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
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OK... heres a basic summary of A Perilous Passage, by B. J. Bayle. This book is set in the New World between the years of 1810-1811. The main character ia a boy named Peter. He suffers from a case of amnesia, and as a result, no one knows him. He meets a man named Boulard. Boulard is an explorer who works for David Thomson. Boulard takes him on a journey to meet his boss, David Thompson, and Peter quickly gets involved with an expedition to find the Columbia River, headed by David Thompson himself.

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