Lost in the Backwoods: Scots and the North American Wilderness

by Jenni Calder

How the American wilderness shaped Scottish experience, imagination and identity. How is the Scottish imagination shaped by its migr experience with wilderness and the extreme? Drawing on journals, emigrant guides, memoirs, letters, poetry and fiction, this book examines patterns of survival, defeat, adaptation and response in North America's harshest landscapes. Most Scots who crossed the Atlantic in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries encountered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748647384
• ISBN13: 9780748647385
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"