| Man Proposes, God Disposes: Recollections of a French Pioneer Contributor(s): Maturié, Pierre (Author) |
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ISBN: 1926836553 ISBN-13: 9781926836553 Publisher: Athabasca University Press OUR PRICE: $31.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - History | Canada - Post-confederation (1867-) |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2013375303 |
| Series: Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.6" W x 8.5" (0.95 lbs) 260 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1910, young Pierre Maturi 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. Maturi 's memoir, Athabasca, Terre de ma jeunesse, 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. |