Louis-Frédéric Rouquette (1884-1926) was a French writer and tireless traveler whose works are based on real events, places, and the lives of people he encountered. His books take the reader to the far north of Canada, wild forests, snowy wastelands, and unknown southern lands, where man experiences a real struggle for survival.
This volume includes two of his novels, linked by a common hero.
"In the Snows of Alaska" (originally "The Great White Silence") is Rouquette's best novel, written after his trips to Northwestern Canada. The main character, a young Frenchman named Freddy, sets off for the islands of the Queen Charlotte Islands in the hope of finding gold. On the way, he meets a mysterious beauty who is heading to her husband, a policeman in the Yukon. However, a few weeks later, her husband is murdered, and suspicion falls on her. In desperation, she turns to Freddy for help...
"Rebel Souls" continues the story of the fearless adventurer. But now his pursuit of the golden chimera leads not to the icy north, but to the southern latitudes, where new trials, unexpected encounters and deadly dangers await him.
Rouquette's works are the cruel truth of the frontier, where man confronts nature, loneliness, cold, but above all - the cruelty of man himself. His novels, filled with tension, the search for meaning and strength of spirit, remain classics of adventure literature.
