Project Gutenberg 2013-03-23 Public domain in the USA. 51 Wallace, Dillon 1863 1939 Grit A-Plenty: A Tale of the Labrador Wild Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Rod Crawford, Dave Morgan, Matthew Wheaton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Grit A-Plenty: A Tale of the Labrador Wild" by Dillon Wallace is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around the Angus family, particularly focusing on Thomas, his children—including the brave Jamie, who faces the challenge of impending blindness—and Doctor Joe, who is a crucial neighbor in their close-knit community. The novel explores themes of resilience, the struggles of frontier life in the harsh Labrador wilderness, and the deep bonds between family and friends as they navigate their daily challenges. At the start of the book, we are introduced to Thomas Angus and his family living in their cozy cabin, referred to as The Jug, situated in the wilds of Labrador. The family is depicted as hardy and content, but their tranquility is disrupted when young Jamie begins to suffer from a mysterious affliction that clouds his vision. The local doctor, affectionately called Doctor Joe, suspects that Jamie might go blind if he doesn’t receive surgery to alleviate the condition. The family’s struggle to gather the necessary resources for the surgery becomes a central element of the story, leading to the boys setting off on a quest to trap fur in the wilderness, working with the enigmatic Indian Jake. The opening sets the stage for the boys’ adventures and the emotional investment required to save Jamie's sight, threading a narrative of grit and determination against a backdrop of natural beauty and peril. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/42396/42396-h/images/cover.jpg en Teenage boys -- Juvenile fiction Brothers -- Juvenile fiction Fathers and sons -- Juvenile fiction Fur trade -- Juvenile fiction Physicians -- Juvenile fiction Newfoundland and Labrador -- Juvenile fiction Trappers -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 391751 391758 2024-09-17T16:49:20.460761 2023-09-18T11:24:13.292263 text/html text/html 415571 2013-03-23T11:40:42 text/html; charset=utf-8 352087 2013-03-23T11:41:36 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 369644 2024-09-17T16:49:26.562241 application/epub+zip 373442 2024-09-17T16:49:21.544763 application/epub+zip 220151 2024-09-17T16:49:20.993777 application/epub+zip 509597 2024-09-17T16:49:30.585208 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 465323 2024-09-17T16:49:25.982310 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 312676 2022-09-19T11:09:54.968471 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 339708 2024-09-17T16:49:19.527757 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 351861 2013-03-23T11:40:40 text/plain; charset=utf-8 127921 2013-03-23T11:41:36 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 339446 2013-03-23T11:41:10 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 126370 2013-03-23T11:41:36 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21367 2024-09-17T16:49:30.729197 application/rdf+xml 28156 2024-09-17T16:49:21.087754 image/jpeg 4678 2024-09-17T16:49:21.041750 image/jpeg 351889 2024-09-17T16:49:20.501766 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