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![]() ![]() Then there was Joseph La France, a "French Canadese Indian" who convinced Michael Lok there was a Northwest Passage on the strength of a map he drew on the floor of a London Tavern. Alan Twigg's account of his career is like an epic novel compressed into a couple of pages. ![]() history buffs who still don't know or won't admit the man was an unstoppable rogue, not Spanish at all but a Greek, his real name Apostolos Valerianos. Ronsdale Press, 230 pp, $21.95, softcover.įirst Invaders is a fascinating literary exploration of what are generally accepted to be our beginnings, and as with every other halfway interesting voyage of discovery, there is excitement, mayhem, and a cast of rogues and scalawags. ![]()
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