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Barkskins by Annie Proulx is a novel about settler colonialism in North America and the eradication of the boreal forest and its own indigenous inhabitants. The novel spans 300 years tracing the family lineages of two Frenchmen, Charles Duquet and René Sel. In the late 17th hundred years, Duquet and Sel, two poor indentured servants, arrive in the wild, apparently infinite coniferous forest of New France. Their get better at, Claude Trépagny, tasks them with reducing trees to clear the land for a fresh maize storyline. He instructs them that after 3 years of servitude, they will obtain their own land to work. Soon after, the enterprising Duquet works away to join the fur trade. Sel, an experienced woodsman, remains. But Trépagny forces Sel to marry Mari, a mature Mi'kmaw girl with whom Trépagny have been living, so that Trépagny can marry a rich Frenchwoman. PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Inside this Instaread Synopsis of Barkskins:
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