![]() ![]() ![]() Annie Proulx tells the stories of the descendants of Sel and Duquet over three hundred years-their travels across North America, to Europe, China, and New Zealand-the revenge of rivals, accidents, pestilence, Indian attacks, and cultural annihilation. But Duquet runs away, becomes a fur trader, then sets up a timber business. He is forced to marry a native woman and their descendants live trapped between two cultures. René suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. ![]() Bound to a feudal lord for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters-barkskins. ![]() In the late seventeenth century two young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Now a television mini-series airing on National Geographic May 2020!Ī Washington Post Best Book of the Year & a New York Times Notable Bookįrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Shipping News and “Brokeback Mountain,” comes the New York Times bestselling epic about the demise of the world’s forests: “ Barkskins 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” ( San Francisco Chronicle). ![]()
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