Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes

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Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes is a series of historical novels by William T. Vollmann about the conflicts between European colonists and indigenous peoples during the settlement of North America. Each volume focuses on a different episode in North American history, with most also including digressions and chronological departures. The narrator is credited throughout as William the Blind. The series will comprise seven novels; five books have been published as of 2020.

Volumes[]

  • Volume 1: The Ice-Shirt (1990) is about the arrival of the Vikings in North America (9th–10th centuries).
  • Volume 2: Fathers and Crows (1992) is about the efforts of Jesuit missionaries in Canada (16th–18th centuries).
  • Volume 3: Argall (2001), written in a 17th-century prose style, is about the settlement of Jamestown (17th century).
  • Volume 4: The Poison Shirt (unpublished), either "concerning the Puritans vs. King Philip of Rhode Island,"[1] (17th century) or Captain James Cook's voyage to Hawaii[2] (18th century).
  • Volume 5: The Dying Grass (2015) is "about the destruction of the Plains Indian tribes"[3] (18th–19th centuries).
  • Volume 6: The Rifles (1994) is about Sir John Franklin's attempt in 1845 to find the Northwest Passage to the Pacific, and also discusses Vollmann's experiences among the Inuit in the 1990s (19th–20th century).
  • Volume 7: The Cloud-Shirt (unpublished), "Navajo vs. Hopi (or possibly Navajo vs. oil company) in Arizona"[4] (20th century).

References[]

  1. ^ Hemmingson, Michael A., "William T. Vollmann: A Critical Study and Seven Interviews" (McFarland, 2009), p. 32
  2. ^ "Archived copy". www.pandemoniumofthesun.com. Archived from the original on 7 September 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ Hemmingson, p. 32
  4. ^ McCaffery/Hemmingson "Expelled from Eden: A William T. Vollmann Reader" (Thunder's Mouth, 2004), p. 450


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