Bouquet for a New World Man
Say
what you will of the human condition, but biographies are often more fun, and usually
more readable, when written with an ax to grind.
David
Hackett Fischer, a marvelous writer and a great historian, takes one of America’s most likable explorers and spends over 600 pages explaining
just how magnificent Samuel de Champlain was. The result is sprawling,
convincing, and dull.
