Voyageur Classics

Voyageur Classics bzw. m​it vollständigem englischen Reihentitel Voyageur Classics: Books That Explore Canada (etwa: Reiseklassiker: Bücher, d​ie Kanada erforschen) i​st eine kanadische englischsprachige Buchreihe spezieller n​euer Versionen kanadischer Klassiker m​it zusätzlichem Material u​nd speziellen Einführungen namhafter Experten[1]. Die Reihe erscheint i​n neuerer Zeit b​ei der Dundurn Press i​n Toronto. Sie umfasst bereits über 30 Bände. Die folgende Übersicht erhebt keinen Anspruch a​uf Aktualität o​der Vollständigkeit:

Bände
  • 1 Selected Writings. A.J.M. Smith
  • 2 The Blue Castle. L. M. Montgomery
  • 3 Canadian Exploration Literature: An Anthology. Germaine Warkentin[2]
    • 1600: Pierre Esprit Radisson travels to Lake Superior
    • 1690: Henry Kelsey carries the Governor's pipe to the interior
    • 1729–1739: The Sieur de La Verendrye looks for the Western Sea
    • 1743: James Isham dispels the vapours by recording his observations
    • 1754–1755: Anthony Henday is permitted to enter the Blackfoot chief's camp
    • 1760–1776: Alexander Henry survives a native attack on Fort Michilimackinac, and later travels to the prairies
    • 1769–1791: Andrew Graham becomes a scholar of Bayside life
    • 1770–1772: Samuel Hearne journeys across the Barren Lands
    • 1772–1773: Matthew Cocking seeks trading partners inland
    • 1791–1792: Peter Fidler spends a winter with the Chipewyans
    • 1771–1782: Edward Umfreville considers 'The Present State of Hudson's Bay'
    • 1775–1788: Peter Pond describes a trader's life in the Mackinac region
    • 1784–1812: David Thompson imagines the Great Plains
    • 1787–1788: Saukamapee describes life on the plains
    • 1800–1816: Daniel Harmon tries to make an Eden in the wilderness
    • 1789: 'Alexander Mackenzie, from Canada, by land'
    • 1792: Captain George Vancouver carries out an Imperial agenda
    • 1808: Simon Fraser descends a perilous river
    • 1819–1821: Captain John Franklin is bested by the Arctic
    • 1823: George Nelson encounters "the Dreamed"
    • 1830: Frances Simpson travels west
    • 1832: Governor George Simpson satirized fur trade personalities
    • 1840: Letitia Hargrave: the Factor's wife
    • 1857–1858: Professor Henry Youle Hind visits a civilization on the wane
    • 1857–1859: Captain John Palliser considers prairie settlement
  • 4 Empire and Communications. Harold A. Innis
  • 5 Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale of French Canada. Louis Hémon
  • 6 The Letters and Journals of Simon Fraser, 1806-1808. Simon Fraser
  • 7 In This Poem I Am: Selected Poetry of Robin Skelton. Robin Skelton
  • 8 Mrs. Simcoe's Diary / The Diary of Mrs. John Graves Simcoe. Elizabeth Simcoe
  • 9 The Donnellys: Sticks and Stones/The St. Nicholas Hotel/Handcuffs. James Reaney
  • 10 The Firebrand: William Lyon Mackenzie and the Rebellion in Upper Canada. William Kilbourn
  • 11 The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada. Benjamin Drew
  • 12 A Tangled Web. L. M. Montgomery
  • 13 The Scalpel, the Sword: The Story of Doctor Norman Bethune, Ted Allan und Sydney Gordon
  • 14 The yellow briar: a story of the Irish on the Canadian countryside. Patrick Slater
  • 15 Storm Below. Hugh Garner
  • 16 Combat Journal for Place d'Armes: A Personal Narrative. Scott Symons
  • 17 Pilgrims of the Wild. Grey Owl
  • 18 Self Condemned. Wyndham Lewis
  • 19 The Silence on the Shore. Hugh Garner
  • 20 The Men of the Last Frontie. Grey Owl
  • 21 Selected Poetry and Prose. Robert Service
  • 22 The Town Below. Roger Lemelin
  • 23 Pauline Johnson: Selected Poetry and Prose. Pauline Johnson
  • 24 The Kindred of the Wild. Charles G. D. Roberts
  • 25 All Else Is Folly: A Tale of War and Passion. Peregrine Acland[3]
  • 26 In Flanders Fields. John McCrae
  • 27 Ringing the Changes. Mazo De la Roche
  • 28 The Regiment. Farley Mowat
  • 29 God's Sparrows. Philip Child
  • 30 Flying a Red Kite. Hugh Hood
  • 31 The Deserter. Douglas LePan

Siehe auch

Einzelnachweise und Fußnoten
  1. Voyageur Classics: "... special new versions of Canadian classics, with added material and special introductions by noted experts."
  2. Online-Teilansicht (1), (2)
  3. Peregrine Acland (1891–1963); biography
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