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pp. 237. “In 1910, young Pierre Maturie 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 1914 to fight in the First World War. Like that of so many youthful pioneers, his story is one of adventure and hardship – perilous journeys, railroad construction in the Rockies, panning for gold in swift-flowing streams, transporting goods for the Hudsons Bay Company along the Athabasca River. Blessed with the rare gift of a natural storyteller, Maturie conveys his abiding nostalgia for a country he loved deeply yet ultimately had to abandon.” SIGNED and dedicated by the author
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| ISBN | 1926836553 | |
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| ISBN13 | 9781926836553 | |
| Number of pages | 237 | |
| Original Title | Man Proposes, God Disposes: Recollections of a French Pioneer (Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters Series) | |
| Published Date | 2013 | |
| Translators | Vivien Bosley | |
| Book Condition | Very Good | |
| Jacket Condition | No Dj | |
| Binding | Paperback | |
| Size | 8vo | |
| Place of Publication | Edmonton | |
| Edition | First edition | |
| Inscription | Signed by Author | |
| Category: | Canadian Studies | |
| Author: | Pierre Maturié | |
| Publisher: | Athabasca University Press |
pp. 237. “In 1910, young Pierre Maturie 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 1914 to fight in the First World War. Like that of so many youthful pioneers, his story is one of adventure and hardship – perilous journeys, railroad construction in the Rockies, panning for gold in swift-flowing streams, transporting goods for the Hudsons Bay Company along the Athabasca River. Blessed with the rare gift of a natural storyteller, Maturie conveys his abiding nostalgia for a country he loved deeply yet ultimately had to abandon.” SIGNED and dedicated by the author
| Weight | 0.85 kg |
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