Seven Dreams Series by William T. Vollmann

4.07 · 41 ratings
  • The Ice-Shirt (Seven Dreams #1)
    #1

    The Ice-Shirt (Seven Dreams #1)

    William T. Vollmann

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 1990

    The time is the tenth century A.D. The newcomers are a proud and bloody-minded people whose kings once changed themselves into wolves. The Norse have advanced as implacably as a glacier from Iceland to the wastes of Greenland and from there to the place they call Vinland the Good. The natives are a bronze-skinned race who have not yet discovered iron and still see themselves as part of nature. As William T... more

  • Fathers and Crows (Seven Dreams #2)
    #2

    Fathers and Crows (Seven Dreams #2)

    William T. Vollmann

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1992

    With the same panoramic vision and mythic sensibility he brought to The Ice-Shirt, William T. Vollmann continues his hugely original fictional history of the clash of Indians and Europeans in the New World. It is 400 years ago, and the Black Gowns, French Jesuit priests, are beginning their descent into the forests of Canada, eagerly seeking to convert the Huron--and courting martyrdom at the hands of the rival Iroquois... more

  • Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith (Seven Dreams #3)
    #3

    Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith (Seven Dreams #3)

    William T. Vollmann

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2001

    From the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central - a hugely original fictional history of Pocahontas, John Smith, and the Jamestown colony in VirginiaIn Argall, the third novel in his Seven Dreams series, William T... more

  • The Dying Grass: A Novel of the Nez Perce War (Seven Dreams #5)
    #5

    The Dying Grass: A Novel of the Nez Perce War (Seven Dreams #5)

    William T. Vollmann

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2015

    In this new installment in his acclaimed series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans and European colonizers, William T. Vollmann tells the story of the Nez Perce War, with flashbacks to the Civil War. Defrauded and intimidated at every turn, the Nez Perces finally went on the warpath in 1877, subjecting the U.S. Army to its greatest defeat since Little Big Horn as they fled from northeast Oregon across Montana to the Canadian border... more

  • The Rifles (Seven Dreams #6)
    #6

    The Rifles (Seven Dreams #6)

    William T. Vollmann

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 1994

    The story of John Franklin’s doomed 1845 attempt to discover a Northwest Passage, from the National Book Award-winning author of Europe CentralVaulting through time to another flashpoint in the long struggle between Indians and Europeans, William T. Vollmann's visionary fictional history now focuses on the white explorers of the mid-1800s, desperately dreaming of forging a Northwest Passage... more

  • The Cloud Shirt (Seven Dreams #7)
    #7

    The Cloud Shirt (Seven Dreams #7)

    William T. Vollmann

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings · published 2025

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