Barkskins

Adapted into a major TV series, Barkskins is an epic, dazzling, dramatic work by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx. The story begins with two penniless young Frenchmen, Rene Sal and Charles Duquet, who in the late seventeenth century arrive in New France (present day Eastern Canada) bound to a feudal lord. Tied into an arrangement where they must work for three years in exchange for land, the men become woodcutters, or barkskins. Both suffer extraordinary hardship, but it is Rene, oppressed by the forest he clears, who is forced to marry a Mi’Kmaw woman in a match that will leave their descendants trapped between two hostile cultures. Meanwhile Duquet, the more cunning and ruthless of the two, escapes to become a fur trader and then timber businessman. Over three hundred years, the descendants of both men will travel across North America, Europe, China, and New Zealand enduring brutal conditions; accidents; pestilence; Indian attacks; and cultural annihilation. A mentality of seizing what you can when you can, along with a mistaken belief in the limitlessness of all resources, leaves the modern-day characters to face the consequences of a possible ecological collapse.

Format: Kindle Edition, Audiobook (with membership), Paperback & Hardcover

Hardcover: 736 Pages

Language: English