Project Gutenberg 2010-09-26 Public domain in the USA. 62 Pickthall, Marjorie L. C. (Marjorie Lowry Christie) 1883 1922 Pickthall, Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall, M. L. C. (Marjorie Lowry Christie) Dick's Desertion: A Boy's Adventures in Canadian Forests A Tale of the Early Settlement of Ontario Reading ease score: 76.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Al Haines "Dick's Desertion: A Boy's Adventures in Canadian Forests" by Marjorie L. C. Pickthall is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story explores themes of adventure, family bonds, and the pull of nature as it follows the journey of Dick Underwood, a boy from a struggling settler family in Ontario, as he navigates through the challenges of frontier life. The narrative focuses on Dick and his sister Stephanie as they grapple with loss, their responsibilities, and the allure of the wild." "The opening of the novel sets the stage for Dick's life in the Canadian wilderness after his family's relocation from England due to financial difficulties. As we meet him lounging beneath a sumach tree, he is deeply immersed in his world of dreams and imagination, crafting a birch-bark canoe. The narrative takes us through the backstory of his family, highlighting their struggles with the harsh realities of rural life after the death of their mother and their father's increasing detachment. The story contrasts the beauty of the surrounding natural landscape with the emotional turmoil within the Underwood household, ultimately leading to an internal conflict within Dick between home ties and the call of the wilderness. This dynamic is set to become a central theme as the plot unfolds." (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/34002/34002-h/images/img-cover.jpg en Boys -- Juvenile fiction Ontario -- History -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: History - General Browsing: Fiction 205979 202345 2024-10-14T10:29:40.026966 2023-09-15T05:02:30.599753 text/html text/html 196231 2021-01-07T01:36:12 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 690966 2021-01-07T01:36:12 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 712245 2024-10-14T10:29:43.146980 application/epub+zip 712505 2024-10-14T10:29:40.499002 application/epub+zip 148645 2024-10-14T10:29:40.234962 application/epub+zip 784849 2024-10-14T10:29:45.538921 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 770392 2024-10-14T10:29:42.882931 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 207336 2022-09-15T13:01:15.473833 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 185515 185511 2024-10-14T10:29:39.665972 2023-09-15T05:02:30.344761 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 185219 2021-01-07T01:36:12 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 71343 2021-01-07T01:36:12 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20206 2024-10-14T10:29:45.670926 application/rdf+xml 22632 2024-10-14T10:29:40.308963 image/jpeg 3575 2024-10-14T10:29:40.271953 image/jpeg 692746 2024-10-14T10:29:40.065951 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia