Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes
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Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes is a series of novels by William T. Vollmann about the settlement of North America and the conflicts between natives and settlers. Each volume focuses on a different historical expedition in North America. The series will be seven novels long; four books have been published so far.
- Volume 1: The Ice-Shirt (1990) is about the arrival of the Vikings in North America.
- Volume 2: Fathers and Crows (1992) is about the efforts of Jesuit Missionaries in North America.
- Volume 6: The Rifles (1994) is about Sir John Franklin's attempt in 1845 to find the Northwest Passage to the Pacific and also about the 1990s Inuit.
- Volume 3: Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith (2001), written in the style of seventeenth-century prose, is about the settlement of Jamestown.
