By Nikki Rajala
Treacherous Waters
The Chronicles of an Unlikely Voyager
André nearly drowns in an icy St. Lawrence River. Those memories plague him when he sets out on a fur trade brigade to Indian territory west of Lake Superior, in addition to battling the harsh environment — and a man intent on killing him.
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
Waters Like the Sky
The Chronicles of an Unlikely Voyager
Book 1
Some Like It Hot
The Sauna, Its Lore and Stories
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“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
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Tracing the voyageurs’ highway: four memoirs
Four writers trace old canoe routes and share their insights after paddling the northern lakes and rivers — why they went, what they saw, what they learned and how it compared to the original journal writers and voyageurs.
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John Macdonell’s journal: part 5
John Macdonell completes the first leg of his 1793 journey, arriving at Grand Portage about 6 weeks after departing French Canada.
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John Macdonell’s journal: part 4
John Macdonell’s journal tells of his first voyagein 1793 in a birch bark canoe as a fur trade clerk. By the end of June, they finally travel downstream and reach Lake Huron, and Michilimackinac.
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