The river

In the year 1803 the young Alban Labiche, twenty, quietly lives his peasant life in his parents' farm in Normandy. When the consul Bonaparte begins to enlist provincial massively Alban finds himself in a series of dramatic situations. Always in the wrong place at the wrong time, peaceful, idealistic young man will be enlisted in the New World colonies, up to flee the authorities throughout Louisiana, beyond the Ouachita River, the Mississippi and Missouri ...

After Canoe Bay, the designer Patrick Prugne was imaged on a script by Tiburce Oger, "Frenchman" held a second story about the New World. This time Prugne is the only master on board, ensuring both parties that the written pictorial.
In full copyright of his work, this prodigious watercolorist get really stands out with honors. His scenario may well be directly less entertaining than Tiburce Oger on "Canoe Bay" (which was kind of a mix between various frames from romantic classics of English literature of the 19th century), it is much better written better cut and directed. The tone is more realistic, more mature, and ultimately more immersive.
The storyline wife scrupulously various real events of history, to convene some characters who really existed, among the top of this adventure in Indian country. The documentary concerns allows the reader to follow a solid web of historical and geographical background, vibrant and captivating.
The characterization of the characters is not enough against by developed and some narrative son and other twists are a bit far-fetched. With a bit more character, this beautiful lyrical and naturalistic trial would have been entitled to the level of excellence.

Images of view, the first part, which takes place in France, is a fairly standard invoice. It is when the plot swerves in the heart of the New World, in these wild landscapes at dizzying majesty, where the elements reign absolute master, the talented illustrator Patrick Prugne becomes dizzying, leaving us wondering about the fact the man is simply born to bring precisely these landscapes picture one, with a mesmerizing lyricism!
As for "Canoe Bay", this giant-screen edition is embellished with a sketchbook and watercolors of almost thirty pages, full of annotations and preliminary research as beautiful as the final planks.
This second work on the New World by Patrick Prugne was released in 2011. Hopefully the author we still offer many more!
4 1/2 stars ...