Le Grand Silence Blanc: Roman vécu d'Alaska

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Le Grand Silence Blanc: Roman vécu d'Alaska

by Louis-Frédéric Rouquette

FR·~4 hours·24 chapters

Chapters

24 total

LOUIS-FRÉDÉRIC ROUQUETTE

0:01

Le Grand Silence Blanc

0:26

PRÉFACE

4:48

I UNE VISITE EN MANIÈRE DE PRÉSENTATION

12:20

II LES TROIS RENCONTRES DE JESSIE MARLOWE

50:18

III LA SUPRÊME SAGESSE OU LE SECRET DU BONHEUR

12:41

IV LES «POURQUOI» DE KOTAK, ESQUIMAU INNUIT

4:43

V LA CITÉ DES PHOQUES

8:46

VI DE L'UTILITÉ DU PARAPLUIE CHEZ LES THLINKITS

11:03

VII SUR LE TRAIL

4:53

Description

In the opening pages, a solitary voice introduces us to Tempest, a loyal Alaskan dog whose quiet devotion steadies a weary wanderer. The narrator, a French traveler far from the cafés of Paris, finds himself immersed in the stark, snow‑bound wilds where every breath seems to echo inside the endless white. Through crisp, observant prose the listener is drawn into the harsh beauty of the landscape and the simple, unspoken pact between man and beast.

The story progresses as the protagonist ventures deeper into the frozen frontier, confronting both the relentless elements and the fleeting moments of human connection that surface along the way. Light humor surfaces amid the bleakness, revealing a tender irony that softens the solitude. As the first act unfolds, the narrative invites you to feel the profound silence of the North while pondering the universal ties that bind us, even in the most remote places.

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Language

fr

Duration

~4 hours (259K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

Release date

2020-09-22

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

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Louis-Frédéric Rouquette

1884–1926

A restless French travel writer with a taste for faraway frontiers, he turned the snows of Alaska and the Canadian North into vivid adventure stories. Best known for Le Grand Silence blanc, he was once praised as a French-language answer to Jack London.

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