A time and place when life was lived according to the rules of nature only, but with civilised regimes set in place for the efficient survival of communities. So readable just as an adventure story on its own, Across the Great Sparkling Water (later to become Lake Ontario) is fascinating in that it tells so much about the customs of the time, and the day to day living - and yes, yes, it made me want to go back in time and live amongst them, as all good historical fiction should do.
It's a while since I read the first one so I had to recap, after which the two stories flowed together. I'll just mention that it's important to read the first in this series, Two Rivers, first. More than a few scholars agree that the latter day USA constitution was influenced by this Great Law of Peace. This is the second in the Peacemaker series, a fictional account based on fact, about how the Great League of the Iroquois was formed.
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