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Uncharted Waters
The Chronicles of an Unlikely Voyager – Book 3
It’s 1805 and André, now 16, desperately wants to paddle with French-Canadian canoe brigades-maybe his last chance. But choosing to tend to his ailing foster parents, he relinquishes his clerk’s position at a fur trade post in the vast Canadian wilderness.
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Nikki Rajala
Nikki Rajala delights in creating fiction and nonfiction alike, and especially enjoys rewriting. But that hasn’t always been so. For years she struggled with “writing phobia.” After she married Bill Vossler, a full-time freelance writer, he encouraged her to find her authentic voice. She and her husband live in Rockville, Minnesota.
Other Books by Nikki Rajala
“Fans of Book 1 of Waters Like the Sky can set forth with André Didier on new adventures. They won’t be disappointed. Treacherous Waters, the second book in the series, is even more nail-bitingly perilous than the first. In addition to being a cracking good adventure story, Treacherous Waters is also a well-researched portrait of life on the Minnesota frontier in early decades of the nineteenth century.”
– Wayne Backman
Nikki Rajala’s Official Voyager’s Blog
Follow Along
How point blankets morphed …
Coats made from point blankets —capotes — were used by the British in the War of 1812, and then morphed into Mackinaw jackets, winter wear now preferred by outdoorsmen.
A short course on point blankets
Those Hudson’s Bay blankets (point blankets, with threads sewn in from selvage to indicate size) have a rich history, dating to before the fur trade.
And heeeere’s Greg Ingram, fur trade re-enactor!
Learn about re-enactor Greg Ingram who’s also a collector and carver, and shares his long-time passion for the fur trade era.