Barkskins

By Annie Proulx

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Barkskins is Annie Proulx's epic novel tracing three centuries of logging and forest destruction in North America and beyond. It begins in 1693 with two poor Frenchmen who arrive in New France to work as woodcutters. Their descendants, the Sels and the Duquets, follow very different paths, from Native life to a timber empire spanning the world. Proulx, author of The Shipping News, shows how people transformed the land and depleted its forests across generations.

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