Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters: Man Proposes, God Disposes (PDF)
Recollections of a French Pioneer
(Sprache: Englisch)
In 1910, young Pierre Maturie 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...
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In 1910, young Pierre Maturie 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, Maturie conveys his abiding nostalgia for a country he loved deeply yet ultimately had to abandon. Maturie'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.
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- Autor: Pierre Maturie
- 2013, 272 Seiten, Englisch
- Übersetzer: Vivien Bosley
- ISBN-10: 1926836561
- ISBN-13: 9781926836560
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.2013
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