Lost in the Backwoods

Scots and the North American Wilderness

By Jenni Calder

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Publish Date

2013

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Language

eng

Pages

256

Description:

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.

subjects: Scots, foreign countries, Scotland, emigration and immigration, Scots, History, Immigrants, Ethnic identity, Social life and customs