Barkskins - Annie Proulx

Softcover Barkskins By the Pulitzer Prize winning Author Annie Proulx Copyright 2016 by Dead Line, Ltd. First Scribner trade paperback edition April 2017 An imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.. 717 pages + In the late 17th century two penniless young Frenchmen, Rene Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in Canada, then known as New France. Bound to a feudal Lord for 3 years in exchange for land, they become woodcutters- barkskins. Sel, suffering extraordinary hardship in the forest he is charged with.