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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... learned enough of the Ottawa tongue to take part in the meetings , instead of being dragged hither and thither like a tailor's dummy . Loic patiently taught me words and phrases as we sat by the campfire in the evening . He didn't laugh ...
... learned enough of the Ottawa tongue to take part in the meetings , instead of being dragged hither and thither like a tailor's dummy . Loic patiently taught me words and phrases as we sat by the campfire in the evening . He didn't laugh ...
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A Novel Margaret Elphinstone. wind and water . I learned to change my stroke before we were off course , rather than correct it . I learned to read the lake and the sky , in the same way as I read the land and weather on my own hills ...
A Novel Margaret Elphinstone. wind and water . I learned to change my stroke before we were off course , rather than correct it . I learned to read the lake and the sky , in the same way as I read the land and weather on my own hills ...
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... learned to tell lies , to fight , to keep my religion secret , and to speak Lowland Scots . ( No one spoke my language , and they used to laugh at the literary English I'd learned from my grandfather . They didn't listen to what I said ...
... learned to tell lies , to fight , to keep my religion secret , and to speak Lowland Scots . ( No one spoke my language , and they used to laugh at the literary English I'd learned from my grandfather . They didn't listen to what I said ...
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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