A review by chalicotherex
Black Robe by Brian Moore

4.0

A Jesuit priest heads upriver in New France with Algonquin guides in a desperate attempt to make contact with a mission that hasn't been heard from in some time. The land is brutal and so are the people who live in it: French, Huron, Algonquin and Iroquois alike. There is distrust on all sides and understanding of the disease that's killing the natives and originating from the French is centuries away from these people. There is only the slightest hint of sentimentality, in the closing pages of the novel. Partially based on the Jesuit Relations, early chronicles from missionaries in New France.