Lost in the Backwoods [electronic resource] : Scots and the North American Wilderness
Calder, Jenni.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
""CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""MAP OF NORTH AMERICA""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""1 SCOTLAND'S HARD COUNTRY""; ""2 THE NEVER-ENDING FOREST""; ""3 DESPERATE UNDERTAKINGS""; ""4 GLORIOUS INDEPENDENCE""; ""5 FUTURE PROSPECTS AND PRESENT SACRIFICE""; ""6 TREASURES OF THE FOREST, THE FIELD AND THE MINE""; ""7 REGIONS OF ADVENTURE""; ""8 THE HOPE OF THE WORLD?""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX""
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 19, 2013).
North America -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
Scotland -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
Scots -- North America.