Reluctant Pioneer: How I Survived Five Years in the Canadian Bush - Softcover

Osborne, Thomas; Thomas, Osborne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1926577167 ISBN 13: 9781926577166

Verlag: Dundurn Group, 2013

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[Osborne's] adventures make for an exciting story full of escapades, back -breaking work, isolation and ingenuity. . . Readers will also enjoy the accounts of all the people they met during their time in the North Portage. * The Bracebridge Examiner *

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The view 16-year-old Thomas Osborne first had of Muskoka was at night, trudging alone with his even younger brother along unmarked primitive roads to find their luckless father who, in 1875, had decided to make a new start for his beleaguered family on some "free land" in the bush east of the pioneer village of Huntsville, Ontario. The miracle is that Thomas lived to tell the tale. For the next five years Thomas endured starvation, falling through the ice and freezing, accidents with axes and boats, and narrow escapes from wolves and bears. Many years later, after returning to the United States, Osborne wrote down all his adventures in a graphic memoir that has become, in the words of author and journalist Roy MacGregor, "an undiscovered Canadian classic."

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• Verlag: Dundurn Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1926577167
• ISBN 13: 9781926577166
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 266