Roughing It in the Bush

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Memoirs

Authors: Susanna Moodie In Year : 1852

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Roughing It in the Bush

Introduction to the Third Edition
A Visit to Grosse Isle
Quebec
Our Journey up the Country
Tom Wilson's Emigration
Our First Settlement, and the Borrowing System
Old Satan and Tom Wilson's Nose
Uncle Joe and His Family
John Monaghan
Phoebe R---, and Our Second Moving
Brian, the Still-Hunter
The Charivari
The Village Hotel
The Land-Jobber
A Journey to the Woods
The Wilderness and Our Indian Friends (Part One)
The Wilderness and Our Indian Friends (Part Two)
Burning the Fallow
Our Logging-Bee
A Trip to Stony Lake
The "Ould Dhragoon"
Disappointed Hopes
The Little Stumpy Man
The Fire
The Outbreak
The Whirlwind
The Walk to Dummer
A Change in our Prospects
Adieu to the Woods
Canadian Sketches (Part One)
Canadian Sketches (Part Two)
Appendix A: Advertisement to the Third Edition
Appendix B: Canada: a Contrast (Introductory Chapter to the 1871 edition)
Appendix C: Jeanie Burns

'Roughing It In the Bush' is Susanna Moodie's account of how she coped with the harshness of life in the woods of Upper Canada, as an Englishwoman homesteading abroad. Her narrative was constructed partly as a response to the glowing falsehoods European land-agents were circulating about life in the New World. Her chronicle is frank and humorous, and was a popular sensation at the time of its publication in 1852. (Summary by Moira Fogarty)