Medienkombination, Englisch, 596 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 830 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - North American History
Or, Sketches of Transatlantic Life
Medienkombination, Englisch, 596 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 830 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - North American History
ISBN: 978-1-108-03353-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
A dynamic army officer and sportsman, Sir Richard Levinge (1811–84) was an unlikely chronicler of nature. However, service during the suppression of the French Canadian uprising of 1837–8 led to a personal fascination with the people, flora and fauna of the Canadian colonies. Published in 1846, this two-volume description of travel through eastern Canada and the United States reflects the author's passion for hunting and the outdoor life. In Volume 1, the reader accompanies Levinge on his voyage to Newfoundland before being regaled with tales of skating, sleighing, hunting for wolves and a fortnight in the bush in Nova Scotia. Volume 2 describes the American swamps, Montreal, the Great Lakes and Niagara Falls, as well the continent's exotic fauna in the form of racoons, snakes and bald eagles. This work conveys both the dangers and the attractions of the North American continent at this period.
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Volume 1: Preface; 1. Voyage out; 2. New Brunswick. Hints for emigrants; 3. New Brunswick continued; 4. Of the Milicete and Micmac Indians; 5. New Brunswick. Of the birds and beasts; 6. New Brunswick. Of the deer and woodcraft; 7. New Brunswick. Of the fish and fishing; 8. Nova Scotia. A fortnight in bush; 9. A race through the United States; Appendix. Volume 2: 10. A race through the United States continued; 11. A race through the United States continued; 12. A race through the United States continued; 13. The Atlantic. A winter's passage; 14. Of the outbreak in Lower Canada; 15. Upper Canada. Niagara; 16. Upper Canada. Lakes Erie, Huron, Michigan; 17. Second outbreak in Lower Canada, in 1838; 18. Prairies of Illinois; 19. Upper Canada. Niagara District.
