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Frontier and pioneer life -- fiction

  • River thieves
    Author:
    Crummey, Michael
    Summary:

    With a poetic eye and a gift for storytelling, Crummey vividly depicts the stark Newfoundland backcountry. He shows the agonies of the men toiling towards the caribou slaughtering yards of the Beothuk; of coming upon the terrible beauty...
  • Men of men
    Author:
    SMITH, Wilbur
    Summary:

    After the prospectors and hunters had opened the way to the African interior, the miners and adventurers followed. Here we see Cecil Rhodes forging an empire based on diamonds and land, and the tragedy of a tribe dispossessed by greed...
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