The Backwoods of Canada: Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer (Prospero Canadian Collection)
by Traill, Catharine Parr
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 1552673588
- ISBN 13
- 9781552673584
- Seller
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Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
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About This Item
Prospero Books, 2003 Old bookshop stamp on inner leaf.
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
- Caryota Book Exchange
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011108
- Title
- The Backwoods of Canada: Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer (Prospero Canadian Collection)
- Author
- Traill, Catharine Parr
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1552673588
- ISBN 13
- 9781552673584
- Publisher
- Prospero Books
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2003
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