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"Based on the real journal kept by French explorer Jacques Cartier in 1534, Encounter imagines a first meeting between a French sailor and a Stadaconan fisher. As they navigate their differences, the wise animals around them note their similarities, illuminating common ground." -- publisher
Themes
Genres: Fiction
Categories: Cross Group
Content: Bi/multilingual
Settings: Northern America
Ethnicity: French
Tribal Affiliation/Homelands: Stadaconan (Laurentian)
Immigration: Immigrant/Migrant, Non-Immigrant
Gender: Boy/Man
Race/Culture: First/Native Nations/American Indian/Indigenous, White/European American/Caucasian