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A story of life in the lumber camps of the North Country, including the Adirondack Mountains, Minnesota and Northern New England. The story depicts the experiences of sky pilots: Frank Higgins of Minnesota; Aaron Maddox, Charles Atwood, Clarence Mason and Frank Reed of the Adirondacks; and William Burger of Northern New England. ... Read more

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Beautifully illustrated with color photos of beavers at work geared especially for children but quite enjoyable for grownups. ... Read more

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The 19th century spawned a unique breed of men who took pride in their woodsmen skills and rough codes of conduct. They called themselves lumberers, shantymen, timber beasts, les bucherron -- and, more recently, lumberjacks, working in the vast forests of eastern Canada and British Columbia.

Across the country, farm boys would go to the woods, lumbering being the only winter work available. Immigrants -- Swedes and Finns more often than not -- resumed the trades they had learned so well in the forests of northern Europe. They broke the cold, hard monotony of camp life with songs, tall tales and card games.

Within these pages, author Donald MacKay allows us a glimpse into that moment in our heritage when men entered the virgin forest to carve out an industry from the seemingly endless array of pine, spruce, maple and balsam fir found there.

"[Donald MacKay's book has many virtues. His prose is clean. He lets the surviving pioneers talk for themselves when they have something to say, but never allows them to get too windy. He separates legends and half-truths from facts ..."
-The Montreal Star

"... a superb marriage of text and pictures, a nostalgic but not sentimental discussion of one of Canada's primary industries, logging."
- The Globe and Mail

"It's marvellous material of a type often ignored by historians ... Such books may do more to help us understand ourselves than all the academic tomes together."
- Atlantic Insight

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This digital document is an article from Sojourners, published by Sojourners on March 1, 2004. The length of the article is 435 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Shamans, lumberjacks, and hunters: who will save the amazon?
Author: David Batstone
Publication: Sojourners (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2004
Publisher: Sojourners
Volume: 33Issue: 3Page: 26(2)

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How logs went to market from the forests of northern New York, with tales of loggers. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

Sure to touch your heart.
Looking for a holiday story that will make you smile? Here's the book you need. A Lumberjack Christmas...Revisited is actually two stories which take place generations apart, but the second tale also provides the first one's real conclusion.

Not long after the Civil War, two young people are headed toward a winter-bound settlement in the Minnesota woods. Martha Tinker is on her way to Sawbill Landing because her mail-order fiance's there, and he's the only person left on earth to whom she has a tie. Physician and war veteran Byron Ferguson has been called in to treat the victims of a mysterious epidemic. Even without that complication, the Landing in December would be no place for a lady - especially not a Boston-reared one with a finishing school education. But Martha's father was a doctor...and her faith makes her a whole lot tougher than she looks.

Fast forward to the present. The descendants of people we've met before, in now-abandoned Sawbill Landing, live in a nearby town. They've got their own set of troubles, and they need a Christmas miracle. Or should that be miracles? Once again, faith and love work magic. And once again, as she's done in both installments of her Patrick and Grace mystery series, Janet Elaine Smith breathes life into an elderly couple whose romance is sure to touch your heart.

Wonderful holiday stories!
I ordered just because the cover was so beautiful and put me in the holiday mood--but both stories inside were great reads! I'll read this author again!!

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A Lumberjack Christmas proves that love is like a plum pudding, you only get out what you put in. And for this couple there is more than one generation throwing in love and luck. It takes a Christmas Miracle spanning the generations to bring the ultimate Christmas gift. ... Read more

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Beautifully illustrated version of the tale of Paul Bunyan. ... Read more