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About this book
A dramatic, exciting and tragic book about the Irish fur trapper who held the fate of America and the British Empire in his hands.
William Johnson began life as a poor Irish Catholic peasant. After converting to Protestantism, he emigrated to America where he became the leading fur trader in the British colony and one of its richest men. He also 'went native', marrying an Indian woman and adopting the religion of her tribe, the Iroquois. When war broke out between the French and English, Johnson held the fate of the British Empire in his hands. If the Indians fought with the French, the British were doomed.
A fascinating historical biography of this adventurous man, whose reinvention in the New World made him the first modern American.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Maps
- 1: Tears, Throat, Heart
- 2: Spectres and Apparitions
- 3: Amphibians
- 4: Most Onruly and Streperous
- 5: An Outlandish Man
- 6: How the White Man Came to America
- 7: The Holy Well
- 8: Raw Head and Bloody Bones
- 9: The Power of Absence
- 10: Force, Motion and Equilibrium
- 11: The Late Emperor of Morocco
- 12: Master of Ceremonies
- 13: An Upstart of Yesterday
- 14: The Precarious Salvo of Applause
- 15: Unspeakable Perplexity
- 16: The Largest Pipe in America
- 17: Miss Molly
- 18: Rowing against the Current
- 19: Sir Willam and his Myrmidons
- 20: Niagara Falls
- 21: Barbarians
- 22: Seeds Worth Sowing
- 23: ‘Intoxicated with providential Success’
- 24: A Stop to Their Very Being
- 25: What the Great Turtle Said
- 26: Many Civil Things
- 27: An Imaginary Line
- 28: The Patriarch
- 29: Negroes Handcuffs
- 30: Irish Dreamtime
- 31: A Death Foretold
- 32: The End of the World
- 33: The Afterlife
- Acknowledgements
- Picture Credits
- Notes
- Index
- Plates
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright