Barkskins av Annie Proulx

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<b>Now a television mini-series airing on National Geographic May 2020!<BR> A <i>Washington Post</i> Best Book of the Year & a <i>New York Times </i>Notable Book</b><BR><BR><b>From the Pulitzer Prize–­­winning author of <i>The Shipping News</i> and ';Brokeback Mountain,' comes the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling epic about the demise of the world's forests: ';<i>Barkskins</i> is grand entertainment in the tradition of Dickens and Tolstoy…the crowning achievement of Annie Proulx's distinguished career, but also perhaps the greatest environmental novel ever written' (<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>).</b><BR><BR>In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord, a ';<i>seigneur</i>,' for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters—barkskins. René suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. He is forced to mar