Lost in the Backwoods
Lost in the Backwoods
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Résumé
How is the Scottish imagination shaped by its émigré experience with wilderness and the extreme? Drawing on journals, emigrant guides, memoirs, letters, poetry and fiction, this book examines patterns of survival, defeat, adaptation and response in North America's harshest landscapes.
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Lost in the Backwoods by Jenni Calder
Most Scots who crossed the Atlantic in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries encountered the practical, moral and cultural challenges of the wilderness, with its many tensions and contradictions. The author explores the effect of these experiences on the Scots imagination.
Jenni Calder worked in Scotland with the National Museum of Scotland from 1978 to 2001 (including Head of Publications and script co-ordinator for the Museum of Scotland exhibitions), since when she has worked as a freelance writer and lecturer. She is a well-known author of many books on Scottish literature and history, including: Stevenson and Victorian Scotland (EUP 1980); The Robert Louis Stevenson Companion (Harris 1980); The Wealth of a Nation (NMS 1989); No Ordinary Journey: John Rae, Arctic Explorer (NMS 1993); Scots in the USA (Luath Press 2006). She has authored and edited many other collections on Scottish literature and history.
| SKU | Non disponible |
| ISBN 13 | 9780748647385 |
| ISBN 10 | 0748647384 |
| Titre | Lost in the Backwoods |
| Auteur | Jenni Calder |
| État | Non disponible |
| Type de reliure | Paperback |
| Éditeur | Edinburgh University Press |
| Année de publication | 2013-06-14 |
| Nombre de pages | 256 |
| Note de couverture | La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier. |
| Note | Non disponible |