{"product_id":"reluctant-pioneer-how-i-survived-five-years-in-the-canadian-bush-paperback","title":"Reluctant Pioneer: How I Survived Five Years in the Canadian Bush - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas Osborne\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRoy MacGregor\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Osborne delivers a gripping account of 1870s Ontario pioneer life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe view 16-year-old Thomas Osborne first had of Muskoka was at night, trudging alone with his even younger brother along unmarked primitive roads to find their luckless father who, in 1875, had decided to make a new start for his beleaguered family on some \"free land\" in the bush east of the pioneer village of Huntsville, Ontario. The miracle is that Thomas lived to tell the tale.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the next five years Thomas endured starvation, falling through the ice and freezing, accidents with axes and boats, and narrow escapes from wolves and bears. Many years later, after returning to the United States, Osborne wrote down all his adventures in a graphic memoir that has become, in the words of author and journalist Roy MacGregor, \"an undiscovered Canadian classic.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReluctant Pioneer\u003c\/i\u003e provides a brooding sense of adventure and un- sentimental realism to deliver a powerful account of pioneer life where tragedies arrive as naturally as rain and where humour resides in irony.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Osborne came as a teen in the 1870s from the United States to homestead with his father in Ontario's Muskoka. After five dramatic years he returned to the United States to live and work in Pennsylvania and New York. In 1938 he was killed by an automobile in San Diego, California.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 11, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48131203694840,"sku":"9781926577166","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/pujYO-_rRu9781926577166.webp?v=1783362486","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/reluctant-pioneer-how-i-survived-five-years-in-the-canadian-bush-paperback","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}