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Echoes from the Backwoods - Or, Sketches of Transatlantic Life (Paperback)
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Echoes from the Backwoods - Or, Sketches of Transatlantic Life (Paperback)
Series: Echoes from the Backwoods 2 Volume Set, Volume 1
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A dynamic army officer and sportsman, Sir Richard Levinge (1811 84)
was an unlikely chronicler of nature. However, service during the
suppression of the French Canadian uprising of 1837 8 led to a
personal fascination with the people, flora and fauna of the
Canadian colonies. Published in 1846, this two-volume description
of travel through eastern Canada and the United States reflects the
author's passion for hunting and the outdoor life. In Volume 1, the
reader accompanies Levinge on his voyage to Newfoundland before
being regaled with tales of skating, sleighing, hunting for wolves
and a fortnight in the bush in Nova Scotia. The American stage of
his travels is lightened by anecdotes of 'Yankees shaving' and
'frigid Baptists'. Illustrated with dramatic lithographs of moose
and salmon spearing, this work conveys both the dangers and the
attractions for the hunter and traveller of the North American
continent at this period.
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