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The gripping report of a dramatic eighteenth-century voyage of breakthrough 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 objectives, in a courageous attempt to circumnavigate the globe for technology and the glory of France. Deeply grounded in historical truth but refracted through a powerful imagination, Landfalls uses the exploits and heartbreaks not only of the men on the boats but also of individuals affected by the voyage - natives and other Europeans the explorers encountered, loved ones left ready at home, and those who survived and kept in mind the expedition later. Each chapter is advised from another viewpoint and is defined in another area of the world - which range from London to Alaska, from distant South Pacific islands to Siberia, and eventually back again to France. The effect is a attractively written and absorbing story of the high seas, methodical exploration, human tragedy, and the globe on the cusp of the present day era. By converts elegiac, deep, and comic, Landfalls reinvents the maritime experience novel for the 21st hundred years.
