The River of Kings by Taylor Brown Published by St. Martin's Press on March 21st 2017
Pages: 336
Genres: Historical Fiction
Format: Hardcover
Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository
Goodreads
Also by this author: Fallen Land
“The most exciting literary adventure fiction I've read since Deliverance.” –Howard Frank Mosher, author of God's Kingdom
Two brothers travel a storied river’s past and present in search of the truth about their father’s death in the second novel by the acclaimed author of Fallen Land.
The Altamaha River, Georgia’s “Little Amazon,” has been named one of the 75 “Last Great Places in the World.” Crossed by roads only five times in its 137-mile length, the blackwater river is home to thousand-year-old virgin cypress, descendants of 18th-century Highland warriors, and a motley cast of rare and endangered species. The Altamaha has even been rumored to harbor its own river monster, as well as traces of the most ancient European fort in North America.
Brothers Hunter and Lawton Loggins set off to kayak the river, bearing their father’s ashes toward the sea. Hunter is a college student, Lawton a Navy SEAL on leave; both young men were raised by an angry, enigmatic shrimper who loved the river, and whose death remains a mystery that his sons hope to resolve. As the brothers proceed downriver, their story is interwoven with that of Jacques Le Moyne, an artist who accompanied the 1564 expedition to found a French settlement at the river’s mouth, which began as a search for riches and ended in a bloody confrontation with Spanish conquistadors and native tribes, leaving the fort in ruins and a few survivors fleeing for their lives.
In The River of Kings, SIBA-bestselling author Taylor Brown artfully weaves three narrative strands—the brothers’ journey, their father’s past, and the dramatic history of the river’s earliest people—to evoke a legendary place and its powerful hold on the human imagination.
About Taylor Brown
Taylor Brown is a recipient of the Montana Prize in Fiction, and he's been a finalist for the Press 53 Open Awards, Machigonne Fiction Contest, and Doris Betts Fiction Prize. He is the author of In the Season of Blood and Gold (Press 53, 2014),Fallen Land (St. Martin's, 2016), and The River of Kings. He lives in Wilmington, North Carolina, where he is the founder and editor of BikeBound, a custom motorcycle blog.
Brown’s debut, Fallen Land, was an impressive read and this one sounds even more fascinating. And could his covers be any more gorgeous??
What are you waiting on this Wednesday?
I think I’ll pass on this one but I do hope you love it. I have to admit to having a fondness for creature on the cover though.
Barb (boxermommyreads) recently posted…Can’t Wait Wednesday (96) – Booker T is Back!
This actually sounds really good, and I don’t usually go for historical fiction. But that cover definitely is eye-catching!
Tammy @ Books, Bones & Buffy recently posted…Waiting on Wednesday [238] – RUIN OF ANGELS (CRAFT SEQUENCE #6) by Max Gladstone
What a nice lil cover this has!
It sounds interesting. I am most curious about the narrative that deals with the history of the river.
Hmmm..I’ve never heard of this book before, but it sounds interesting!
Ronyell (a.k.a Rabbitearsblog) recently posted…Waiting on Wednesday #29: The Thing About Love by Julie James
Wow that’s a gorgeous cover. I am not too sure that this kinda plot is for me but the coverlust is strong enough that I might try it anyway, haha.
Jessie recently posted…Review: These Ruthless Deeds by Tarun Shanker & Kelly Zekas