Lost in the Backwoods
Subtitle: Scots and the North American Wilderness
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780748647392
Subjects: Scots, foreign countries; Scotland, emigration and immigration
Description: 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.