Worth reading because of the man who will not marry a porcupine. Seriously, this short collection contains earthy folktales. There is a note section in the back. It is a nice varied collection - funny, scary, sad.
Opening: The Jug, as Thomas Angus often remarked, was as snug and handy a place to live as ever a man could wish. Ten miles up the Bay was the trading post of the Hudson’s Bay Company, and at Wolf Bight, twelve miles directly across the Bay from the Jug, the trading post of Trowbridge & Gray, and th...
These are absolutely splendid tales, unexpurgated, harsh or comic, sometimes scatological, marvellous and memorable. They are dominated, as Millman says in his introduction, by the constant search for food in a barren land.
A first-read win.Originally published in 1933, True North tells of Elliott Merrick's journey with his wife into the northern wilderness of Newfoundland as they spend a season with trappers. Merrick's accounting of this journey read much like Thoreau in his forsaking of the city to live a "simpler" l...
How did Millman manage to find such remote spots in the world? It's not like you can advertise and have people tell you about these places. Nevertheless, somehow Millman did find these odd places and visited them. The stories he tells while visiting here and there, way, way, way off the map, edge in...
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