The Last Crossing

By Vanderhaeghe, Guy ISBN: 9780771087387 format: Paperback pages: 400 publisher: McClelland & Stewart pub. date: 2003-09-23

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Winner of CBC's Canada Reads 2004.

Set in the second half of the nineteenth century, in the American and Canadian West and in Victorian England, The Last Crossing is a sweeping tale of interwoven lives and stories. Charles and Addington Gaunt must find their brother Simon, who has gone missing in the wilds of the American West. They set out for British Columbia with a half Blackfoot, half Scottish guide, an American journalist and a woman searching to avenge her sister's murder. This unlikely posse becomes entangled in an unfolding drama that forces each of them to come to terms with their own demons. Vanderhaeghe links the hallowed colleges of Oxford and the pleasure houses of London to the treacherous Montana plains; and the rough trading posts of the Canadian wilderness to the heart of Indian folklore. At the novel's centre is an unusual and moving love story.

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