The image I am posting below forms the bottom half of the cover art on my forthcoming third novel, entitled Crossings (and coming from Cape Breton University Press in the fall of 2015). The top half of the cover is a terrific rendering of Thomas Pichon by Cathy MacLean. The basic information on the image is there to read, but it was obtained for use on the cover of the book through the Granger Historical Picture Archive, New York. All rights reserved. La Rochelle figures in the story as the port from which Thomas sets sail for Louisbourg.

FRANCE: LA ROCHELLE, 1762.
View of the harbor of La Rochelle, France. Copper engraving, 1767, after a painting, 1762, by Joseph Vernet.