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Now a television mini-series airing on National Geographic May 2020!
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year & a New York Times Notable Book

From the Pulitzer Prize-­­winning author of The Shipping News and ';Brokeback Mountain,' comes the New York Times bestselling epic about the demise of the world's forests: ';Barkskins is grand entertainment in the tradition of Dickens and Tolstoy…the crowning achievement of Annie Proulx's distinguished career, but also perhaps the greatest environmental novel ever written' (San Francisco Chronicle).

In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord, a ';seigneur,' for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters—barkskins. René suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. He is forced to marry a

Barkskins

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      Publisher Scribner Book Company
      Published 14 June 2016
      ISBN-13 9780743288781
      978-0743288781
      ISBN-10 0743288785

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Now a television mini-series airing on National Geographic May 2020!
      A Washington Post Best Book of the Year & a New York Times Notable Book

      From the Pulitzer Prize-­­winning author of The Shipping News and ';Brokeback Mountain,' comes the New York Times bestselling epic about the demise of the world's forests: ';Barkskins is grand entertainment in the tradition of Dickens and Tolstoy…the crowning achievement of Annie Proulx's distinguished career, but also perhaps the greatest environmental novel ever written' (San Francisco Chronicle).

      In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord, a ';seigneur,' for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters—barkskins. René suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. He is forced to marry a

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