Voyageurs

Voyageurs is the title of the 2003 novel by Scottish writer Margaret Elphinstone. It sets a young Quaker farmer from from rural England in search of his missing missionary sister; he must work as a voyageur to have any hope of finding her.

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Margaret Elphinstone

Margaret Elphinstone (born 1948 in the county of Kent, England) is a Scottish novelist. Margaret Elphinstone was born in Kent. She studied at Queen's College in London and Durham University. She was until recently, Professor of Writing in the Department of English Studies at the University of...
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