The Backwoods of Canada; Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America
by Traill, Catharine Parr
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1552671437
- ISBN 13
- 9781552671436
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Prospero. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2000. Facsimile. Hardcover. 1552671437 . 351 p. 22.5 cm. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards. Minor wear to the corner tips. Inside pages are clean and unmarked. Dustjacket is shelf rubbed with light wear at the spine ends. A facsimile reprint of the 1836 Charles Knight of this classic account of white pioneer settlement in Upper Canada. .
Synopsis
CATHARINE PARR TRAILL was born in Surrey, England, on January 9, 1802. She was the fifth child of Thomas and Elizabeth Strickland. Her siblings were Eliza, Jane Margaret, Susanna (later Susanna Moodie), Samuel, and Agnes. In 1832 she married Lt. Thomas Traill. The couple emigrated to Upper Canada and settled near the Otonabee River close to Peterborough. Traill is the author of a number of books but is best-known for The Backwoods of Canada . She died in 1899 in Lakefield, Ontario.
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- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5146
- Title
- The Backwoods of Canada; Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America
- Author
- Traill, Catharine Parr
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- Facsimile
- ISBN 10
- 1552671437
- ISBN 13
- 9781552671436
- Publisher
- Prospero
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- 1552671437
- Bookseller catalogs
- History - Canada;
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