Louisbourg Portraits

by Christopher Moore

Book Overview

Each year, thousands of tourists flock to the Fortress of Louisbourg on the coast of Cape Breton Island to visit the reconstruction of part of the original eighteenth-century fort and town. Using the same records, diaries, letters, and charts that were used to recreate the site, Moore restores to vivid life five people who actually walked the streets of the colony over two hundred years ago. First published in 1982, this bestselling book of fascinating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0771060912
• ISBN13: 9780771060915
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Fascinating true stories.

Amazingly detailed true stories of real people and their personal lives. Christopher Moore has obviously spent countless hours mining information from the surviving eighteenth-century documents of the colony of Ile Royale in order to reconstruct living history in a fascinating, readable format.

Five people

This is the story of five inhabitants of the colonial city of Louisbourg who lived and died. They had their dreams. They had their hopes. Some ended in tragic failure while others enjoyed great success. An interesting book to read for those interested in the period or in Louisbourg in peticular. Nicely written.