Title: Roughing it in the bush
Subtitle: or, Forest life in Canada
First published: 1852
Description: Available for the first time in enriched e-book format, this edition offers visual and historical insights into Susanna Moodie's writing via electronic weblinks. Like a full-colour footnote, select words and phrases throughout the book are links to websites that contain a wealth of additional information, pictures, definitions and historical information that gives context to the text. Now, with the click of a mouse, you can investigate the world of Moodie's Upper Canada without having to leave your screen.Roughing It in the Bush, first published in 1852, helped to destroy British illusions about life in Upper Canada. Susanna Moodie described a life of backbreaking labour, poverty, and hardship on a pioneer farm in the colonial wilderness. Her sharp observations, satirical character sketches, and moments of despair and terror were a startling contrast to the widely circulated optimistic accounts of life in British North America, written to entice readers across the Atlantic.The spontaneity, wit, and candour of Moodie's account of life on a backwoods farm give Roughing It in the Bush enduring appeal."Roughing It in the Bush" is an extraordinarily detailed record of pioneer life. It is also a journey of exploration and revelation into Moodie's own character, as we watch her grow from ill-prepared immigrant to spirited survivor."—Charlotte Gray
Subjects: Description and travel, Frontier and pioneer life, Biography, Pioneers, Women pioneers, Canadian Authors, Canadian Women authors, History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, Women authors, Canadian literature, Frontier and pioneer life in literature, Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction, History, Travel, Pionnieres, Biographies, Descriptions et voyages, Pionniers, Vie des pionniers, Frontier and pioneer life, canada, Ontario, description and travel, Pionnières, Ontario, Social life and customs
Places: Ontario, Canada
People: Susanna Moodie (1803-1885)
Time periods: 19th century