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Reviewed by Karen Pirnot for Readers' Favorite
Author Benjamin Farley gives the reader a brilliant history lesson in his latest book entitled Three Thousand Days and Nights. The book details the years preceding the French-Indian wars and it is so well researched and presented that the characters literally spring to life. We meet Francois-Philippe, a French soldier and his loyal Algonquin scout Yellow Hawk. There is French frontiersman Francois and his scout Handsome Dog, and British soldier Sir William Graham Tillman, a man torn between the love of two women. Tillman befriends Langdon who is also British and his fondest desire is to marry and start a family on a land grant. He has an adopted son named Blue Hatchet. The four men interact throughout the novel is such a manner that the reader cannot wait to see who will survive and who will succumb to the brutal frontier life and the constant strife between the French and British armies.
As a reader I abhor brutality and yet, the book is so well written that the reader can absorb the reality of frontier strife and still relate to the humanity of the presentation. There are many poignant moments in which the reader understands that, apart from government intervention, humankind is innately capable of working through differences and loyalties via one-to-one interaction. The character of Pontiac and his relationship with the captive Tillman is brilliant. This is a book for all who want to know history from a human standpoint, in all its promise and its failures.
