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Title: Landfalls
Author: Naomi J. Williams
Narrator: Christopher Lane
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14 hrs
Language: English
Release date: 08-04-15
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 24 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
The gripping story of a dramatic eighteenth-century voyage of discovery
In her wildly inventive debut novel, Naomi Williams reimagines the historical La Pérouse expedition, a voyage of exploration that left Brest in 1785 with two frigates, 200 men, and overblown Enlightenment ideals and expectations, in a brave attempt to circumnavigate the globe for science and the glory of France.
Deeply grounded in historical fact but refracted through a powerful imagination, Landfalls follows the exploits and heartbreaks not only of the men on the ships but also of the people affected by the voyage - natives and other Europeans the explorers encountered, loved ones left waiting at home, and those who survived and remembered the expedition later. Each chapter is told from a different point of view and is set in a different part of the world - ranging from London to Alaska, from remote South Pacific islands to Siberia, and eventually back to France. The result is a beautifully written and absorbing tale of the high seas, scientific exploration, human tragedy, and the world on the cusp of the modern era.
By turns elegiac, profound, and comic, Landfalls reinvents the maritime adventure novel for the 21st century.
Members Reviews:
A Refreshing New Voice
Debut author Williams chronicles the ill-fated expedition of the Astrolabe and Boussole, which departed France in 1785 for the South Pacific. The fictionalized account of this map-making and territory-charting journey is an interesting read, in no small part because it is told through many charactersâ perspectives. Landfalls also is a reminder of how enormous the world once was. Travel in the Age of Enlightenment did not include a McDonalds in Moscow, or a Starbucks in Samoa.
Williams has a gift with description, and her prose shines when she takes readers through uncharted territories. She also pays attention to changing social mores, and addresses the debates and social issues in a less politically correct era.
What makes Landfalls, A Novel, really special is that in this risk-averse publishing environment, original voices are endangered species. The book is void of vampires or dystopian themes, and thereâs not a shade of grey in sight. Itâs an intelligent, well-written, painstakingly researched account of adventure. I would love to discover more authors like Williams, and I look forward to her next work.
Highly recommended.
Wow.
I wasn't sure what I'd get here. I'm not terribly into the 18th century, and the period writing is so often labored and awkward.
But this book is so different. The sentences shine like jewels, and the characters feel so real. People have real relationships, and they struggle with uncertainty. The historical research that went into this doesn't lead to pedantry at all; it is dispensed effortlessly and in perfect measure.
How interesting is it to read a novel when you know how it ends? Williams proves it can be absolutely fascinating. This isn't so much a nautical novel or a period novel. It is the most human novel I've read in years. Bravo!
âA book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.â â Franz Kafka [...]a (h
In Landfalls, author Naomi Williams traces the ill-fated expedition of the 18th century French naval officer and explorer Jean Franois de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse.
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Title: Landfalls
Author: Naomi J. Williams
Narrator: Christopher Lane
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14 hrs
Language: English
Release date: 08-04-15
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 24 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
The gripping story of a dramatic eighteenth-century voyage of discovery
In her wildly inventive debut novel, Naomi Williams reimagines the historical La Pérouse expedition, a voyage of exploration that left Brest in 1785 with two frigates, 200 men, and overblown Enlightenment ideals and expectations, in a brave attempt to circumnavigate the globe for science and the glory of France.
Deeply grounded in historical fact but refracted through a powerful imagination, Landfalls follows the exploits and heartbreaks not only of the men on the ships but also of the people affected by the voyage - natives and other Europeans the explorers encountered, loved ones left waiting at home, and those who survived and remembered the expedition later. Each chapter is told from a different point of view and is set in a different part of the world - ranging from London to Alaska, from remote South Pacific islands to Siberia, and eventually back to France. The result is a beautifully written and absorbing tale of the high seas, scientific exploration, human tragedy, and the world on the cusp of the modern era.
By turns elegiac, profound, and comic, Landfalls reinvents the maritime adventure novel for the 21st century.
Members Reviews:
A Refreshing New Voice
Debut author Williams chronicles the ill-fated expedition of the Astrolabe and Boussole, which departed France in 1785 for the South Pacific. The fictionalized account of this map-making and territory-charting journey is an interesting read, in no small part because it is told through many charactersâ perspectives. Landfalls also is a reminder of how enormous the world once was. Travel in the Age of Enlightenment did not include a McDonalds in Moscow, or a Starbucks in Samoa.
Williams has a gift with description, and her prose shines when she takes readers through uncharted territories. She also pays attention to changing social mores, and addresses the debates and social issues in a less politically correct era.
What makes Landfalls, A Novel, really special is that in this risk-averse publishing environment, original voices are endangered species. The book is void of vampires or dystopian themes, and thereâs not a shade of grey in sight. Itâs an intelligent, well-written, painstakingly researched account of adventure. I would love to discover more authors like Williams, and I look forward to her next work.
Highly recommended.
Wow.
I wasn't sure what I'd get here. I'm not terribly into the 18th century, and the period writing is so often labored and awkward.
But this book is so different. The sentences shine like jewels, and the characters feel so real. People have real relationships, and they struggle with uncertainty. The historical research that went into this doesn't lead to pedantry at all; it is dispensed effortlessly and in perfect measure.
How interesting is it to read a novel when you know how it ends? Williams proves it can be absolutely fascinating. This isn't so much a nautical novel or a period novel. It is the most human novel I've read in years. Bravo!
âA book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.â â Franz Kafka [...]a (h
In Landfalls, author Naomi Williams traces the ill-fated expedition of the 18th century French naval officer and explorer Jean Franois de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse.