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Moore attempts to warm this chilly view with a sense of tragedy. His Father Laforgue is a composite of the passionate and courageous priests who followed Samuel de Champlain and the early fur trappers into the region. Laforgue's assignment is to relieve a remote mission at Ihonatiria on the shores of Lake Huron. He and a young French assistant named Daniel must travel by canoe in the company of an Algonquin band that is the birchbark equivalent of a motorcycle gang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soul Trek Black Robe | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

...trail, providing the author with the simplest means of moving his story and creating suspense. The main test of wills occurs hastily in the last 50 pages and contains a solar eclipse that frightens off hostile Indians just as they are about to kill the black robes of Ihonatiria. Parkman's history tells of a priest who knew enough astronomy to impress the natives with a prediction of an eclipse. Moore turns this event into a scene that belongs in the Movie of the Week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soul Trek Black Robe | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

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