Lost in the Backwoods : : Scots and the North American Wilderness / / Jenni Calder.
How the American wilderness shaped Scottish experience, imagination and identityHow is the Scottish imagination shaped by its émigré experience with wilderness and the extreme? Drawing on journals, emigrant guides, memoirs, letters, poetry and fiction, this book examines patterns of survival, defeat...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Map of North America
- Introduction
- 1 Scotland’s Hard Country
- 2 The Never-ending Forest
- 3 Desperate Undertakings
- 4 Glorious Independence
- 5 Future Prospects and Present Sacrifice
- 6 Treasures of the Forest, the Field and the Mine
- 7 Regions of Adventure
- 8 The Hope of the World?
- Bibliography
- Index