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Shows how Scottish imagination was shaped by its emigre experience with wilderness and the extreme. 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.

Lost in the Backwoods

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A Hardback by Jenni Calder

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    Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
    Publication Date: 13/05/2013
    ISBN13: 9780748647392, 978-0748647392
    ISBN10: 0748647392

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Shows how Scottish imagination was shaped by its emigre experience with wilderness and the extreme. 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.

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