Latest by Nikki Rajala
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.
Author
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
Sing. Paddle. Repeat—How voyageurs turned hard work into harmony
The simple act of singing helped voyageurs paddle in synchrony and MUCH more.
Ste. Anne–and old lore–protected the voyageurs
As a first stop, brigades of voyageurs prayed to Ste. Anne at a shrine. And (in case they needed more), they blended other traditions to help them cope with the dangerous journeys.
Cash or credit: New way to pay offered by fur trade
The fur trade introduced paying by credit–a new system of commerce. Until this past January, Hudson’s Bay Company was the longest-operating business in North America.







