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 |
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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 ...
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... 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 ...
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