Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes
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Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes is a cycle of novels by William T. Vollmann. The overall theme of the cycle is the settlement of North America, and the ensuing conflicts between natives and settlers. Each volume of the cycle focuses on a different historical expedition in North America. Eventually the cycle will encompass seven novels, although as of 2006, only four volumes have been published, and the books have not been published in order:
- Volume 1: The Ice-Shirt (1990) deals with the arrival of the Vikings in North America.
- Volume 2: Fathers And Crows (1992) is a mammoth-length look at the efforts of Jesuit Missionaries in North America.
- Volume 6: The Rifles (1994) involves Sir John Franklin's attempt to find the Northwest Passage to the Pacific in 1845, and also focuses on the life of modern-day Inuit in the 1990s.
- Volume 4: Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith (2001) concerns the settlement of Jamestown and is written in 17th-century prose.
