Man Proposes, God Disposes: Recollections of a French Pioneer

• मुख्य लेखक: Pierre Maturi (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Athabasca University Press 2013
• श्रृंखला: Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
• विषय: History of the Americas; memoir; francophone; homesteading; Northern Alberta
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

सारांश

In 1910, young Pierre Maturié bid farewell to his comfortable bourgeois existence in rural France and travelled to northern Alberta in search of independence, adventure, and newfound prosperity. Some sixty years later, he wrote of the four years he spent in Canada before he returned to France in 1914 to fight in the First World War. Like that of so many youthful pioneers, his story is one of adventure and hardship-perilous journeys, railroad construction in the Rockies, panning for gold in swift-flowing streams, transporting goods for the Hudson's Bay Company along the Athabasca River. Blessed with the rare gift of a natural storyteller, Maturié conveys his abiding nostalgia for a country he loved deeply yet ultimately had to abandon. Maturié's memoir, Man Proposes, God Disposes, appeared in France in 1972, to a warm reception. Now, in the deft and marvellously empathetic translation of Vivien Bosley, it is at long last available in English. As a portrait of pioneer life in northern Alberta, as a window onto the French experience in Canada, and, above all, as an irresistible story-it will continue to find a place in the hearts of readers for years to come.

भौतिक वर्णन

1 electronic resource (273 p.)

आईएसबीएन

9781926836553
9781926836560
9781926836577

अभिगमन

Open Access