In the seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, Rene Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord, for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters barkskins. Rene suffers extraordinary hardship and is forced to marry a Mikmaw woman. But Duquet, crafty and ruthless, runs away and becomes a fur trader. Proulx tells the stories of the descendants of Sel and Duquet over three hundred years their travels overseas, pestilence, Indian attacks and cultural annihilation.
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In the seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, Rene Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord, for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters barkskins. Rene suffers extraordinary hardship and is forced to marry a Mikmaw woman. But Duquet, crafty and ruthless, runs away and becomes a fur trader. Proulx tells the stories of the descendants of Sel and Duquet over three hundred years their travels overseas, pestilence, Indian attacks and cultural annihilation.
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