Voyageurs: A NovelCanongate, 2003 - 466 էջ Historisk roman. Under grænsekrigene 1812 forsvinder en engelsk kvækermissionær i den canadiske vildmark. Hendes bror drager med pelshandlerne, les voyageurs, ud på en lang rejse for om muligt at finde hende |
From inside the book
Արդյունքներ 50–ի 1-ից 3-ը:
Էջ 78
... forest of Upper Canada is not like an English wood , with its paths and clearings and villages ; it's a dense unbroken wilderness , whose compass is beyond measure , and whose depths are unfathomable . As the dark thickened , the trees ...
... forest of Upper Canada is not like an English wood , with its paths and clearings and villages ; it's a dense unbroken wilderness , whose compass is beyond measure , and whose depths are unfathomable . As the dark thickened , the trees ...
Էջ 193
... forest , beech and birch and hemlock , and a cedar swamp on the south side . There're no paths , just the dead wood lying , and where the sun gets to the edge of the forest there's the worst poison ivy you've ever seen . It's waist high ...
... forest , beech and birch and hemlock , and a cedar swamp on the south side . There're no paths , just the dead wood lying , and where the sun gets to the edge of the forest there's the worst poison ivy you've ever seen . It's waist high ...
Էջ 330
... forest between the sandhills and the inland lake . The site of the old wigwam was on rising ground , where a little creek flowed into the lake . We mended the old frame , and re - lashed the saplings together . Loic showed me how to ...
... forest between the sandhills and the inland lake . The site of the old wigwam was on rising ground , where a little creek flowed into the lake . We mended the old frame , and re - lashed the saplings together . Loic showed me how to ...
Այլ խմբագրություններ - View all
Common terms and phrases
Alan American asked bear began brother called Canada canoe clear Clemency close Company dark door dream eyes face father feet felt fire followed forest Friends gave gone half hand happened head hear heard heart hills Indians island Judith knew lake land learned leave letter light live Loic looked Mackenzie Mackinac Mark means Meeting Michigan mind Month Montreal mother moved naught never night North once paddle passed peace perhaps Quaker Rachel remember river round seemed seen shore silence sister sometimes South speak spoke stayed stood story talk tell thee There's thing thought told took trade trees turned understand village voyageurs Waase'aaban wait walked watched West winter wish woman Yonge Street young