Canadian Exploration LiteratureGermaine Warkentin Dundurn, 2007 - 599 էջ First published by Oxford University Press in 1993, Exploration Literature is a groundbreaking collection of early writing inspired by the opening of a continent.With maps, notes, and thumbnail biographies of these early writers, Exploration Literature is an entry point for both the casual reader and the student of Canadian literature into the beginnings of a literate response to the awe and wonder inspired by an unfolding geography and the literary fundamentals of new nationhood. |
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Samuel Hearne journeys across the Barren Lands | 166 |
Alexander Mackenzie from Canada by land | 349 |
Captain George Vancouver carries out an Imperial agenda | 396 |
Simon Fraser descends a perilous river | 417 |
Captain John Franklin is bested by the Arctic | 440 |
George Nelson encounters the Dreamed | 483 |
Frances Simpson travels west | 497 |
Governor George Simpson satirizes fur trade personalities | 513 |
Letitia Hargrave the Factors wife | 530 |
Peter Fidler spends a winter with the Chipewyans | 219 |
Edward Umfreville considers The Present State of Hudsons Bay | 241 |
Peter Pond describes a traders life in the Mackinac region | 257 |
David Thompson imagines the Great Plains | 268 |
Saukamapee describes native life on the plains | 317 |
Daniel Harmon tries to make an Eden in the wilderness | 328 |
Professor Henry Youle Hind visits a civilization on the wane | 546 |
Captain John Palliser considers prairie settlement | 562 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 585 |
New Suggestions for Further Reading | 590 |
Index | 593 |
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Էջ 169 - were made for labour; one of them can carry, or haul, as much as two men can do. They also pitch our tents, make and mend our clothing, keep us warm at night; and, in fact, there is no such thing as travelling any considerable distance, or for any length of time, in this country, without their assistance.
Էջ 33 - The antechapel where the statue stood Of Newton with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.
Էջ 133 - The door was unlocked and opening, and the Indians ascending the stairs, before I had completely crept into a small opening which presented itself at one end of the heap. An instant after four Indians entered the room, all armed with tomahawks, and all besmeared with blood, upon every part of their bodies.
Էջ 32 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Էջ 132 - Langlade, my next neighbor, there was only a low fence, over which I easily climbed. At my entrance, I found the whole family at the windows, gazing at the scene of blood before them. I addressed myself immediately to M. Langlade, begging that he would put me into some place of safety, until the heat of the affair should be over; an act of charity by which he might perhaps preserve me from the general massacre; but, while I uttered my petition, M.
Էջ 134 - In the ardor of contest, the ball, as has been suggested, if it cannot be thrown to the goal desired, is struck in any direction by which it can be diverted from that designed by the adversary. At such a moment, therefore, nothing could be less liable to excite premature alarm than that the ball should be tossed over the pickets of the fort, nor that having fallen there, it should be followed, on the instant, by all engaged in the game, as well the one party as the other, all eager, all struggling,...
Էջ 141 - Wawatam thanked the assembled chiefs, and taking me by the hand, led me to his lodge, which was at the distance of a few yards only from the prison lodge.
Էջ 134 - Langlade that they had not found my hapless self among the dead, and they supposed me to be somewhere concealed. M. Langlade appeared, from what followed, to be, by this time, acquainted with the place of my retreat ; of which, no doubt, he had been informed by his wife. The poor woman, as soon as the Indians mentioned me, declared to her husband, in the French tongue, that he should no longer keep me in his house, but deliver me up to my pursuers ; giving as a reason for this measure, that, should...
Էջ 124 - Long-boat, and draws little water ; and so light that two men can carry one several miles with ease ; they are made in the same form and slight materials as the small ones ; only a thin board runs along their bottom ; & they can sail them when before the wind, but not else. The French talk Several Languages to perfection : they have the advantage of us in every shape ; and if they had Brazile tobacco, which they have not, would entirely cut off our trade.
Էջ 131 - Each party has its post, and the game consists in throwing the ball up to the post of the adversary. The ball, at the beginning, is placed in the middle of the course, and each party endeavours as well to throw the ball out of the direction of its own post, as into that of the adversary's.