Claudine Fisher

Southbound French Settlers Claudine Fisher

Southbound French Settlers, book 2, recounts how Mathurin Guégan, involved in the Paris 1848 Revolution, emigrates to the new French colony of Algeria. He and his family undertake the arduous river trip from Paris to Marseilles by barge under military escort. Crossing the Mediterranean Sea on a steamboat, the voyagers reach Algiers, travel through the wilderness and settle at the budding colony of Castiglione (1848-1852.) This historical novel is the continuing saga of The Reluctant Paris Rebel, book 1, as Mathurin and his friends participate in the Revolution of 1848.