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The Winnipeg Free Press reviews Perilous Passage

This past weekend, Perilous Passage by B.J. Bayle was included in the Winnipeg Free Press‘ round-up of new young-adult books. Here is what reviewer Helen Norrie had to say about the book.

“Based on the journals of 19th-century explorer David Thompson, it inserts a 15-year-old boy, Peter, into Thompson’s strenuous search for the source of the Columbia River and his efforts to follow this river to the Pacific Ocean.

Peter has survived a mysterious shipwreck, which has left him without any memory of his name or his past. When he is befriended by one of Thompson’s voyageurs and shows a talent for drawing, he is allowed to join their expedition to record plants and animals they encounter.

While the account of their journey over the Canadian Rockies in winter by this Cochrane, Alta., author is detailed and difficult, somehow Peter never seems to be in real danger and we are always sure he will not only survive but excel.

Still, this is an appealing book for history-lovers.”

- Helen Norrie, Winnipeg Free Press, January 20, 2008

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