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Lost in the Backwoods

- Scots and the North American Wilderness

About Lost in the Backwoods

Shows how Scottish imagination was shaped by its emigre experience with wilderness and the extreme. Drawing on journals, emigrant guides, memoirs, letters, poetry and fiction, this book examines patterns of survival, defeat, adaptation and response in North America's harshest landscapes.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780748647392
  • Binding:
  • Hardback
  • Pages:
  • 256
  • Published:
  • May 12, 2013
  • Dimensions:
  • 156x235x21 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 554 g.
Delivery: 2-4 weeks
Expected delivery: December 12, 2024

Description of Lost in the Backwoods

Shows how Scottish imagination was shaped by its emigre experience with wilderness and the extreme. Drawing on journals, emigrant guides, memoirs, letters, poetry and fiction, this book examines patterns of survival, defeat, adaptation and response in North America's harshest landscapes.

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