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A Discovery of Strangers shows of the meeting of two cultures – the first experience of the nomadic Dene individuals with Europeans – within an ingenious reconstruction of Steve Franklin’s first chart-building journey in 1819—21 in what's now the Northwest Territories. In the centre of the book is just a love story between twenty-two-year-old midshipman Robert Hood, the Franklin expedition’s performer, and a fifteen-year-old Yellowknife woman as Greenstockings recognized to the British. A national best-seller, printed also in Germany and China, Wiebe’s first book in eleven years and his twelfth function of fiction gained him his next Governor General’s Prize for Fiction in the age of sixty, over strong opposition from Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro.It is just a tale of love, murder, greed and enthusiasm within an unforgiving Arctic scenery. French canadian voyageurs exercise the little English journey in to the property of the Yellowknives to find the legendary Northwest Passage.