Labrador Odyssey

Name: Labrador Odyssey
Brand: McGill-Queen's University Press
SKU: 9780773518704
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The Journal and Photographs of Eliot Curwen on the Second Voyage of Wilfred Grenfell, 1893

Автор: Ronald Rompkey

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: McGill-Queen's University Press

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In 1892, after receiving complaints about working conditions in the Labrador fishery, the London-bas...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Ronald Rompkey

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

1996

страници

272

EAN

9780773518704

ISBN

0773518703

Enbook ID

04917732

Издател

McGill-Queen's University Press

Теглоt

580

Размери

215 x 218 x 14

Пълно описание

In 1892, after receiving complaints about working conditions in the Labrador fishery, the London-based Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen sent an expedition led by Wilfred Grenfell to distribute food and clothing to residents of the Labrador coast and to treat sick and disabled fishermen. This expedition unofficially marked the beginning of what would become known as the Grenfell Mission. Eliot Curwen, a young medical doctor, joined Grenfell on the second Labrador voyage. His journal and photographs provide a record of the expedition and of social conditions in Newfoundland and Labrador a century ago. A religious, well-educated Victorian, Curwen takes us into the heart of the colonial society he encountered, revealing the pervasive sectarianism, the tawdry political world of St John's, the rudimentary conditions aboard the fishing schooners, and the poverty of the Labrador "livyers", and the permanent White settlers who had intermarried with the Inuit.

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