The Refugees

Complete and unabridged, with 54 full-page plates by Nicolas de Largillière, Edvard Munch and Adam Frans van der Meulen. A Huguenot family flees Louis XIV's France after the Revocation and ends up in the forests of Canada among Iroquois and coureurs de bois — Versailles in the first half, the wilderness in the second. Conan Doyle published it in 1893, the year he tried to kill Sherlock Holmes; his...