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Michael A. Peterman & Catharine Parr Traill
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Couverture du Michael A. Peterman & Catharine Parr Traill: Backwoods of Canada (PDF)

Catharine Parr Strickland Traill (1802-1899) emigrated from Great Britain to Upper Canada in 1832 with her husband Thomas Traill, a retired army officer. The Backwoods of Canada (1836), Catharine’s epistolary narrative based on her experiences in the country north of Peterborough in the years immediately following her arrival in North America, is an important record of nineteenth-century pioneering and a rich personal memoir of a woman. It has become a foundation work of Canadian Iiterature.

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Langue Anglais ● Format PDF ● Pages 408 ● ISBN 9780773574038 ● Maison d’édition MQUP ● Publié 1997 ● Téléchargeable 3 fois ● Devise EUR ● ID 5836415 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM

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