Reluctant Pioneer
How I Survived Five Years in the Canadian Bush
Thomas Osborne delivers a gripping account of 1870s Ontario pioneer life. 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 returnin…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4597-0238-7
- EAN: 9781459702387
- Produktnummer: 20459107
- Verlag: Dundurn
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 264 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'006 KB
Über den Autor
Thomas Osborne came as a teen in the 1870s from the United States to homestead with his father in Ontario's Muskoka. After five dramatic years he returned to the United States to live and work in Pennsylvania and New York. In 1938 he was killed by an automobile in San Diego, California.
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