Baree, Son of Kazan

6 hrs. 21 min.

Language Russian

Author James Oliver Curwood

Narrator Ilya Akintyev

Description

In James O. Cаrwood’s adventure novel, the war between France and England in North America in the second half of the 18th century is depicted. “The warriors didn’t rush. They walked with calm, confident steps, and no sound broke from anyone’s lips. A surge of fire approached. The warriors with scalps were ahead by about three hundred paces; when they came level with the oncoming Indians, Tioga stopped to let them pass the entire line of torches in a parade. Tuanetta felt some incomprehensible weakness coming over her, freezing every member. Suddenly she remembered everything she had heard in childhood about the Indians—stories that made her entire body tremble, stories from which all the inhabitants of the colonies shook in terror. Wild tales about dreadful revenge—about torture—and about burning people alive at the stake. She had heard these from her father, from foreign guests; they were passed from mouth to mouth, from seigneury to seigneury. She even recalled the name of the tortures awaiting all prisoners—‘The Fiery Path.’”