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Hubert Evans (1892–1986)

Autor von Derry...Airedale of the Frontier

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Beinhaltet die Namen: Hubert Evens, Hubert R. Evans

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Geburtstag
1892
Todestag
1986
Geschlecht
male
Nationalität
Canada
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Hubert Evans was born in Vankleek Hill, Ontario in 1892 and raised in Galt, Ontario. He worked as a reporter before enlisting in 1915. He married in 1920 and built his permanent seaside home at Roberts Creek, BC. His first novel, The New Front Line (1927) is about a pioneering World War One veteran in BC. He and his wife also lived in northern BC Indian villages, resulting in his acclaimed second novel, Mist on the River (1954). His 0 Time in Your Flight (1979), written in his late eighties despite near blindness, recounts a year in the life of an Ontario boy in 1899. Revered by Margaret Laurence as "the elder of our tribe," the Quaker outdoorsman also published two hundred short stories, sixty serials, twelve plays, three juvenile novels, three books of poetry and one biography. Hubert Evans died in 1986, after seven decades of professional writing. Harbour Publishing

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I really enjoyed this book. The book concerns the inhabitants of an upriver Skeena Indigenous village and their sometimes brushes with white society. The main character, Cy Pitt, is a young man who is wonderfully conflicted about what he should do. The other persons in the book run the gamut from Paul Leget, a stern upholder of ancient ways, to those dissolutely lost in Prince Rupert's large town. Hubert Evan's evocation of the Indigenous mindset is compelling, although now inappropriate because the author is white. One criticism (they were hard to find) is that assimilation is seen as a good outcome, but it's more complex than that since the characters are often unsure of what to do. I liked many details from native life, like how to smoke fish, build a canoe, or make snowshoes. Recommended.… (mehr)
 
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19
Mitglieder
64
Beliebtheit
#264,968
Bewertung
½ 3.6
Rezensionen
1
ISBNs
11

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