Roughing It in the Bush
by Susanna Moodie
English
⏱ 18h 48m
34 chapters
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'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)
Chapters
0
Introduction to the Third Edition
15m
1
A Visit to Grosse Isle
26m
2
Quebec
31m
3
Our Journey up the Country
27m
4
Tom Wilson's Emigration
51m
5
Our First Settlement, and the Borrowing System
52m
6
Old Satan and Tom Wilson's Nose
22m
7
Uncle Joe and His Family
41m
8
John Monaghan
30m
9
Phoebe R---, and Our Second Moving
24m
10
Brian, the Still-Hunter
41m
11
The Charivari
52m
12
The Village Hotel
30m
13
The Land-Jobber
59m
14
A Journey to the Woods
31m
15
The Wilderness and Our Indian Friends (Part One)
36m
16
The Wilderness and Our Indian Friends (Part Two)
31m
17
Burning the Fallow
16m
18
Our Logging-Bee
28m
19
A Trip to Stony Lake
31m
20
The "Ould Dhragoon"
18m
21
Disappointed Hopes
29m
22
The Little Stumpy Man
46m
23
The Fire
39m
24
The Outbreak
45m
25
The Whirlwind
20m
26
The Walk to Dummer
56m
27
A Change in our Prospects
25m
28
Adieu to the Woods
27m
29
Canadian Sketches (Part One)
34m
30
Canadian Sketches (Part Two)
39m
31
Appendix A: Advertisement to the Third Edition
2m
32
Appendix B: Canada: a Contrast (Introductory Chapter to the 1871 edition)
20m
33
Appendix C: Jeanie Burns
36m