Madame Godin, Love and Tragedy in the Amazon
Book Details
Author(s)Sandra Gross
ISBN / ASINB004QOB7N0
ISBN-13978B004QOB7N1
Sales Rank1,768,029
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Madame Godin is the true eighteenth-century love story of Isabel Godin who treks across the Amazon to search for her husband, Jean Godin, after a twenty-year separation.
Isabel hears a rumor that the King of Portugal has sent a galliot to take her to her husband in French Guiana. In her entourage are Indians, three young servants, two brothers, a nephew, and a French physician and his assistant. In October 1769, she leaves her home to reach the Amazon River where the galliot awaits her. A wishful journey soon decays into an ordeal as catastrophes besiege them. Lost in the mesh of jungle, tormented by hunger and thirst, Isabel witnesses the deaths of her beloved family and waits for her own, believing each breath is the last.
Isabel hears a rumor that the King of Portugal has sent a galliot to take her to her husband in French Guiana. In her entourage are Indians, three young servants, two brothers, a nephew, and a French physician and his assistant. In October 1769, she leaves her home to reach the Amazon River where the galliot awaits her. A wishful journey soon decays into an ordeal as catastrophes besiege them. Lost in the mesh of jungle, tormented by hunger and thirst, Isabel witnesses the deaths of her beloved family and waits for her own, believing each breath is the last.
