By Great Waters: A Newfoundland and Labrador Anthology

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Patrick O'Flaherty
University of Toronto Press, 15.12.1974 - 278 Seiten
p>This anthology offers readers a selection of Newfoundland writing which will illuminate the unfolding of the province’s history and culture and at the same time command respect as literature. It is comprised of 65 selections from literary and historical sources, which range in time from an extract from the Vinland sagas to a poem written in 1968 by a Newfoundlander. The selections are arranged in four parts: Discovery and Exploration; Transatlantic Outpost; Colonial Era; Breakers Ahead (contemporary). Each selection is prefaced by a brief introduction.

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Vinland
Jacques Cartier Visits the Funks 1534
John Masons Account of Newfoundland 1620
Composed and Done at Harbour Grace
A Plymouth Surgeon in Newfoundland 1663
Here is an Innuit 1764
A Precious People 1776
A Plea for Reform The Case of James
Drowning a Dog 1846
A Parson and His People 1863
The Great Fire of 8 July 1892
Prisoners of the Wind 1903
Adrift on an IcePan 1908
The Badger Drive c 1915
An Edge for Human Grief 192332
Breakers Ahead

Shanandithit the Last of the Beothucks
Overboard with You Gaffs and Pokers 1840

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Autoren-Profil (1974)

Patrick O’Flaherty is a professor emeritus in the Department of English at Memorial University.

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