by Michel Peyramaure · ISBN 9782266008228
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«Les tambours sauvages» is the historical novel by Michel Peyramaure, published by Pocket in paperback (585 pages, in French).
In 1635, Catherine and Denis, two teenagers from the Périgord, cross the Atlantic to New France, a hostile territory where the French, allied with the Hurons and Algonquins, suffer Iroquois attacks. She falls under the influence of an unscrupulous adventurer and he becomes a coureur des bois; years later, with other settlers, they try to found an empire in the Laurentides.
The work was originally published in 1993 by Presses de la Cité; this Pocket edition dates from 1994.
A read for those seeking a historical adventure novel with a romantic backdrop, centered on the French colonization of Canada.
Michel Peyramaure was a French writer. He received the 1979 Grand prix de littérature de la SGDL.
