Roughing It in the Bush

Name: Roughing It in the Bush
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ISBN: 9780771034923

ISBN-10: 077103492X

ISBN-13: 9780771034923

Edition: 2007

Authors: Susanna Moodie, Susan Glickman

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Betty had plenty of potatoes, without the trouble of planting, or the expense of buying; she never kept a cow, yet she sold butter and milk; but she had a fashion, and it proved a convenient one to her, of making pets of the cattle of her neighbours.... we all looked upon Betty as a sort of freebooter, living upon the property of others. -from Chapter V: "Our First Settlement, and the Borrowing System" A classic of Canadian frontier literature, this delightful volume was devoured by readers on both sides of the Atlantic when it was first published in 1852, who turned to it for an unvarnished portrait of homesteading in the woods of Upper Canada. Though Moodie depicts a life that is harsh…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Publication date: 12/4/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 616
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



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Introduction


Canada


A Visit to Grosse Isle


Quebec


Our Journey Up the Country


Tom Wilson's Emigration


Our First Settlement, and the Borrowing System


Old Satan and Tom Wilson's Nose


Uncle Joe and His Family


John Monaghan


Phoebe H-, and Our Second Moving


Brian, the Still-Hunter


The Charivari


The Village Hotel


The Land-Jobber


A Journey to the Woods


The Wilderness, and Our Indian Friends


Burning the Fallow


Our Logging-Bee


A Trip to Stony Lake


The "Ould Dhragoon"


Disappointed Hopes


The Little Stumpy Man


The Fire


The Outbreak


The Whirlwind


The Walk to Dummer


A Change in Our Prospects


Adieu to the Woods


Canadian Sketches



Introductory Chapter to the-1871 Edition


Afterword