Catharine Parr TraillRezensionen
Autor von Briefe aus den Wäldern Kanadas
27+ Werke 341 Mitglieder 6 Rezensionen Lieblingsautor von 1 Lesern
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The backwoods of Canada: being letters from the… von Catherine Parr Strickland Traill
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MaggieFlo | 3 weitere Rezensionen | Jan 17, 2014 | An interesting novel about some teenagers lost in the woods and surviving over the winter. Besides the author's botanic intrusions, and her habit of saying "This happened where the ---town Methodist Church now stands," the story is fairly realistic (it was based on actual cases of survival), and doesn't pull punches regarding the fate of a young Indian woman among her tribe's enemies.
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Georges_T._Dodds | Mar 30, 2013 | After reading Susannah Moodie's memoir of settling in Canada and absolutely hating it, I was dubious about committing myself to reading her sister's published letters on the same subject. I need not have worried, Catherine Parr Traill comes over as a much more pleasant person and I found myself agreeing wholeheartedly with many of her views of life in her new country. I share her obsessions with the wildlife and flora of Ontario and am equally fascinated by the weather and the formations of ice on waterways in the winter.Traill's attitude towards the native population was rather patronising, but typical of the time. It was interesting to read about Canada at a time less than 200 years ago when nearly everyone was a new immigrant and when buying land carried with it obligations as to clearing a certain proportion of it and maintaining or creating a road. It was a time when the main signs of civilisation in a new community were the presence of a grist mill and saw mill, followed by a store and, eventually, a place of worship.
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AJBraithwaite | 3 weitere Rezensionen | Aug 7, 2012 | (Originally published in 1853 - the Alcuin Society's edition is based on an 1855 edition) 450 numbered copies in two parts folded and gathered loose folio sheets, both housed in green cloth double slipcase. The Society has 37 sets of Part One & Part Two which are contained in paper envelopes. Ideal for binding. Part One - 67 + colophon. Part Two - 55 + colophon.
A pioneer writer and botanist, Mrs. Traill wrote the Guide, based on her personal experiences, to provide essential information to English emigrants for a successful adjustment to Canada.
A pioneer writer and botanist, Mrs. Traill wrote the Guide, based on her personal experiences, to provide essential information to English emigrants for a successful adjustment to Canada.
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alcuinsociety | May 11, 2008 | Excellent account of pioneer life in Upper Canada in the 1830's.
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Tony_A20 | 3 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 13, 2006 | The Backwoods of Canada: Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America
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chp | 3 weitere Rezensionen | Oct 19, 2006 | Links
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