Northwest Passage

by Kenneth Roberts

Book Overview

An American ranger commander leads an expedition against an Indian town and dreams of finding an overland passage to the Pacific. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1582882665
• ISBN13: 9781582882666
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Madison Park Press
• Length: 709 Pages
• Weight: 1.91 lbs.

Customer Reviews

How did I miss this for so long?

I've spent a lot of time on the history surrounding the actual events of Rogers Rangers raid on the Abenaki village of Odanak in 1758. But here is a book that throws back the curtain and hurls us out the window into the midst of 18th Century America and Britain. This is simply one of the finest historical novels out there; closely rivalling LeGrand Cannon's Look To the Mountain. Good historical escapist fun and drama.

Northwest Passage

Kenneth Roberts is my favorite novelist so this review may be somewhat biased, but Northwest Passage truly is a book people should read. It is gripping, a book I had a difficult time setting down. Roberts had a style that was unique in that the reader can many times feel the sensations he is describing. When the soldiers were hungy and were failing at hunting, Roberts could create a sensation of hunger and frustration. When he described the streets of London, the reader feels like he/she is actually there.This book is wonderful. It's full of lively, intelligent characters and solid story plots. It is as good a represtation of colonial America as was ever done in the form of a novel. Hopefully it will remain a timeless classic forever.

A gripping read and a standout historical novel.

Set in Colonial America during the French and Indian War, historical novelist Kenneth Roberts' Northwest Passage is an epic work about the larger-than-life Major Rogers and the artist Langdon Towne who joins Rogers' Rangers. As Langdon gradually draws strength, wisdom, and experience from adversity, Major Rogers slowly crumbles before hardship. A powerful story of enduring the fire for better or ill, Northwest Passage is a gripping read and a standout recommendation on the historical fiction shelf.

Excellent historical fiction of an early American hero.

Kenneth Roberts' "Northwest Passage" is one of the great novels of the 1930's. Little remembered now, it is the story of Major Robert Rogers and the early Rangers of the French and Indian War. Most of the book is an accurate description of what occured during that time period, and one gets an incredible feel for the hardships and calamities that befall these men. The book is written in the first person as the narrator is one of the Major's trusted associates; the story involves both men and their lives together in the wilderness and much later when their paths cross once again near the end of the 18th Century. Rogers himself commanded the first real "commando" unit and he is the father of all subsequent outfits like the Green Berets, the Navy Seals etc. Kenneth Roberts was one of the great historical fiction writers of his day and anyone who is interested in this time period would be wise to read this book. It is truly a classic.