1 comments about Across the Keewatin Icefields: Three Years Among the Canadian Eskimos, 1913-1916.

1. I recently bought this book second hand thinking I might enjoy looking at some of the pictures. Travel journals are not my thing.

   I only read a few paragraphs and I was hooked. It's a fantastic adventure story by an 'ordinary' guy. He frequently gets the wrong end of the stick (and thanks to editor's notes you'll be able to tell when), but his warmth and humanity always show through.

   This is less a story about Inuits than it is about a man who finds himself in an alien culture and a harsh environment. The narrative is often funny, always entertaining, and occasionally moved me to tears.

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3 comments about Court Lady and Country Wife: Two Noble Sisters in Seventeenth-Century England.

1. This tale of two sisters in the Baroque Court brought me back to my 11th grade history class. A chronic truant, it was one of the few classes I considered it worth my while to attend because it was the first time I learned that history was a panoramic drama to rival anything I could find in books or teenage gossip. Similarly, the lives of Lucy Percy, the Countess of Carlisle, and her sister, Dorothy, a mother of twelve in the Leicester countryside, is both a page-turning story and a unique perspective on the English Civil War.



2. This book was very good and although I cannot say I devoured it, I certainly had trouble putting it down. It was eye opening in the way that many modern readers may find their ideas of life and marriage in the seventeenth century shaken up a bit. It is amazing to see just how influential these women could be in their own circles.



3. This was an excellent scholarly work, while yet imminently readable. Betcherman follows the vastly different lives of two sisters during 17th century England, with one being immersed in Court life while the other centers her life around home matters. It is a fascinating read and very enlightening for those interesed in social history, women's history, 17th century British history, or any combination. I highly recommend it to the casual historian as well as to the more serious scholar.

No comments about Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada.

No comments about The Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney.

No comments about Summer Cousins.

No comments about Provincial Justice: Upper Canadian Legal Portraits (Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History).

No comments about Breaking Ground: Three Generations of Mennonite Women in the Canadian West.

No comments about Wild Canadian West.