Man proposes, God disposes : : recollections of a French pioneer / / Pierre Maturie ; a translation of Athabasca, terre de ma jeunesse by Vivien Bosley ; with an introduction by Robert Wardhaugh.
In 1910, young Pierre Maturié bid farewell to his comfortable bourgeois existence in rural France and travelled to northern Alberta in search of independence, adventure, and newfound prosperity. Some sixty years later, he wrote of the four years he spent in Canada before he returned to France in 191...
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Superior document: | Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters |
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Place / Publishing House: | Edmonton, Alberta : : AU Press,, 2013. ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Our lives--diary, memoir, and letters.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (273 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s). |
Notes: | Translation of: Athabasca, terre de ma jeunesse. Paris: La Pensée universelle, 1972. |
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