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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... passed a day and a night together out of the society of Friends . At first William protested that the distance was greater than I knew , the winter in Upper Canada far worse , the lake would soon be frozen & c & c & c . To distract my ...
... passed a day and a night together out of the society of Friends . At first William protested that the distance was greater than I knew , the winter in Upper Canada far worse , the lake would soon be frozen & c & c & c . To distract my ...
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... passed . The mide's lodge lay far enough past the lake to escape the worst of the mosquitoes , in a little glade surrounded by basswood trees , which made the wigwam look small as an anthill , a tiny excrescence of the forest floor ...
... passed . The mide's lodge lay far enough past the lake to escape the worst of the mosquitoes , in a little glade surrounded by basswood trees , which made the wigwam look small as an anthill , a tiny excrescence of the forest floor ...
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... passed . But she was not ugly , nor evil . She had no magic of that kind - this I know well , for she was my mother - and since only two years ago she is dead . And that is the story of my father , Martin Kerners , whom you know ...
... passed . But she was not ugly , nor evil . She had no magic of that kind - this I know well , for she was my mother - and since only two years ago she is dead . And that is the story of my father , Martin Kerners , whom you know ...
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