Le Sentier des âmes | Jean-Guy Soumy

EAN : 9782258201262

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 256

Size : 140 x 225 mm

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The Path of Souls

Jean-Guy Soumy

Collection : Terres de France

Release date : 01/09/2022

The “path of souls” is the one taken on the slopes of the Mont Blanc mountain range by Terence, a landscape painter in Napoleon’s army, to a hamlet threatened by a gigantic glacier, where he discovers love and human solidarity in the face of implacable nature.

The Entrève watermill is at a standstill, for lack of sufficient flow in the stream; this is what Terence, a cartographer and landscape painter in Napoleon’s army, finds when he returns to the Alps to his parents and sister at the family mill. After making a deathbed promise to his... The Entrève watermill is at a standstill, for lack of sufficient flow in the stream; this is what Terence, a cartographer and landscape painter in Napoleon’s army, finds when he returns to the Alps to his parents and sister at the family mill. After making a deathbed promise to his father that he would discover the reason why the torrent is not flowing, Terence sets off to the mountain with a comrade. At the end of a perilous journey he reaches a hamlet threatened by the progress of a gigantic glacier; here he joins a community in constant struggle. He finds both love and the cause of the drying up of the stream that feeds the valley’s mill.

As always impeccably documented, the author takes the reader to the Mont Blanc massif for an encounter with a nature that is hostile, implacable and fascinating. A historical novel set during the intensification of the little ice age at the beginning of the 19th century, a regional novel set in the Mont Blanc massif, an adventure novel with its expedition in the mountains, The Path of Souls is also a human epic, that of the struggle against the power of nature.

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EAN : 9782258201262

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 256

Size : 140 x 225 mm

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