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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: Cambridge Library Collection - North American History, Volume 2
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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 2
readers are introduced to the American swamps, Montreal, the Great
Lakes and Niagara Falls, as well as the continent's exotic fauna in
the form of racoons, snakes and bald eagles. Illustrated with a
dramatic lithograph of a caribou hunt, this work conveys both the
dangers and the attractions for the hunter and traveller of the
North American continent at this period, and includes a sardonic
account of the military activity which caused Levinge to be there.
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