New PDF release: The Canoe and the Saddle: A Critical Edition

By Theodore Winthrop

ISBN-10: 0803298633

ISBN-13: 9780803298637

In 1853, with cash in his pocket and chic outfits in his saddlebags, a twenty-four-year-old New Englander of aristocratic Yankee inventory toured the territories of California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. The Canoe and the Saddle recounts Theodore Winthrop’s Northwest journey. A novelized memoir of his travels, it turned a bestseller whilst it was once released presently after the author’s premature demise within the Civil War.This severe version of Winthrop’s paintings, the 1st in over part a century, bargains readers the unique textual content with a story evaluation of the character and tradition of the Pacific Northwest and reflections at the ecological and racial turmoil that gripped the zone on the time. It additionally presents a clean viewpoint at the aesthetic, ancient, cultural, anthropological, social, and environmental contexts within which Winthrop wrote his occasionally aggravating, occasionally enlightening, and regularly riveting account. even if providing pictures of local American culture—in specific, commenting at the Chinook Jargon—making willing and sometimes prescient observations on nature, or deploying transcendental, animist, or Hudson River tuition aesthetics (likely realized from his good friend Frederick Church), Winthrop develops a transparent and compelling photograph of a time and position nonetheless resonant and suitable this day.

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