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Sto caricando le informazioni... Hudson Bay (1848)di R. M. Ballantyne
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I expected a “boys' adventure” story and was delighted to discover that this, Ballantyne's first book, is actually a memoir of his six years with the Hudson Bay Company in the mid-19th century. The description is first-rate and the narrative interesting. My late-Victorian reprint (Thomas Nelson & Sons) was illustrated in colour by someone who apparently thought that a “dog-cariole” (dogsled) looked like a fur-covered bathtub pulled by four border collies and had the oddest ideas of voyageur clothing, so I'm finding it amusing as well as instructive. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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In 1841, aged just sixteen, the intrepid young Scotsman Robert M. Ballantyne (1825-94) joined the Hudson's Bay Company. Posted immediately to North-Eastern Canada, he spent five years traversing the region's inhospitable terrain by sleigh and canoe. His journal and letters home were so evocative that, upon his return, he was persuaded to publish an account of his experiences. Combining anthropological observations with descriptions of landscapes, plants, and animals, the account was applauded by the Dundee Courier for 'opening up a mine of information to the curious' and 'describing the everyday life of a novel and singular existence' with 'buoyancy and animation'. Appearing within a year of the first edition in 1848, the second edition reproduced here is illustrated throughout with views and vignettes. 'Free from tedious details and unnecessary wordiness', Ballantyne's fast-moving and readable narrative challenges many misconceptions about nineteenth-century Canada and its indigenous peoples. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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