Man Proposes, God Disposes - Recollections of a French Pioneer

Informationen zum Autor Vivien Bosley is a professor emeritus of French at theUniversity of Alberta. Her translations from the French range fromseventeenth-century feminism to Canadian political biography. Klappentext In 1910, young Pierre Maturié 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. Maturié's memoir, Man Proposes, God Disposes, 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. Zusammenfassung A crystal clear evocation of another time and place and a compelling meditation on hope and loss. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface, Gilles Cadrin and Vivien Bosley- vii Translator's Acknowledgements- xiii Introduction, Robert Wardhaugh- xv Man Proposes, God Disposes- 1 Afterword, Gilles Cadrin- 221 Preface to the Original French Edition (1972), Robert Margerit-223 Notes- 225

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• Authors: Pierre Maturi, Pierre Maturi?, Pierre Maturie, Pierre/ Cadrin Maturie, Pierre Maturié
• Assisted by: Vivian Bosley (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2011
• EAN: 9781926836553
• ISBN: 978-1-926836-55-3
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and; Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters Series; Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters Series; Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous