Provencher : last of the coureurs de bois
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0887680712
ISBN 13
9780887680717
Category
General Library Collection
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Publication Year
1976
Publisher
Pages
287
Subject
Paul Provencher -- 1902-
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Abstract
"Paul Provencher, "the last of the coureurs de bois", is a man who has spent his life in the forests of Quebec, surveying, travelling, hunting and trapping.
In these memoirs, illustrated with his own photographs and sketches, he shares his adventures and his unique knowledge of the Canadian wilderness.
We learn hunting from a man who stalked bears and moose with bow and arrow, and we are taught trapping by a woodsman who was chosen to teach wilderness survival to Canadian Army commandoes.
With Provencher as our guide we meet many engaging and memorable individuals, both Indians and Whites - characters who show us how they survived hardships which would have proved fatal to most city-dwellers.
Above all, we came to know Provencher himself - a man at once courageous, colourful and full of joie de vivre." -- Back cover.
In these memoirs, illustrated with his own photographs and sketches, he shares his adventures and his unique knowledge of the Canadian wilderness.
We learn hunting from a man who stalked bears and moose with bow and arrow, and we are taught trapping by a woodsman who was chosen to teach wilderness survival to Canadian Army commandoes.
With Provencher as our guide we meet many engaging and memorable individuals, both Indians and Whites - characters who show us how they survived hardships which would have proved fatal to most city-dwellers.
Above all, we came to know Provencher himself - a man at once courageous, colourful and full of joie de vivre." -- Back cover.
Description
287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Number of Copies
1
