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''Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes'' is a series of novels by William T. Vollmann about the settlement of North America and the conflicts between natives and settlers. Each volume focuses on a different episode in North American history, with most also including digressions and chronological departures. The narrator is credited throughout as William the Blind. The series will comprise seven novels; five books have been published so far. *Volume 1: ''The Ice-Shirt'' (1990) is about the arrival of the Vikings in North America (9th-10th centuries). *Volume 2: ''Fathers and Crows'' (1992) is about the efforts of Jesuit missionaries in Canada (16th-18th centuries). *Volume 3: ''Argall'' (2001), written in a 17th-century prose style, is about the settlement of Jamestown (17th century). *Volume 4: ''The Poison Shirt'' (unpublished), either "concerning the Puritans vs. King Philip of Rhode Island,"〔Hemmingson, Michael A., "William T. Vollmann: A Critical Study and Seven Interviews" (McFarland, 2009), p. 32〕 or Captain Cook's voyage to Hawaii〔http://www.pandemoniumofthesun.com/?p=354〕 (17th or 18th century). *Volume 5: ''The Dying Grass'' (2015), "about the destruction of the Plains Indian tribes"〔Hemmingson, p. 32〕 (18th-19th centuries). *Volume 6: ''The Rifles'' (1994) is about Sir John Franklin's attempt in 1845 to find the Northwest Passage to the Pacific, and also discusses Vollmann's experiences among the 1990s Inuit (19th-20th century). *Volume 7: ''(The Cloud-Shirt )'' (unpublished), "Navajo vs. Hopi (or possibly Navajo vs. oil company) in Arizona"〔McCaffery/Hemmingson "Expelled from Eden: A William T. Vollmann Reader" (Thunder's Mouth, 2004), p. 450〕 (20th century). ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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