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This evening I finished Annie Proulx's novel Barkskins. I had checked it out from the digital library onto my kindle app. The story begins in the late 1600s when two French indentured servants arrive in New France and follows their descendants until 2013. They are lumberjacks and it is also the story of the forests of North America and other parts of the world such as the tropical rain forests in South America and the ancient trees of New Zealand. It graphically describes the destruction of the forests and ends with the impacts of deforestation seen today. The book is divided into units and each unit switches back and forth between the two families. I found the characters a little hard to remember as it switched back and forth. There were two family trees in the back of the book. One for the downline of each indentured servant. These diagrams helped me keep the people in the book straight. This is a historical fiction book that touches on environmental issues. It would be a great choice in the classroom or in a book group. It also depicts the mistreatment of the eastern Canadian Native Americans. It is long but worth sticking with it. The National Geographic channel made a tv series out of the book but has only released one season. Please click on the book title and author's name above for more information and enjoy the video that follows.
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