登入選單
返回Google圖書搜尋
The Prospector’s Wife
John Drabble
出版FriesenPress, 2016-11-23
主題Biography & Autobiography / HistoricalBiography & Autobiography / WomenBiography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
ISBN14602931779781460293171
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=1cW8DQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBookSAMPLE
註釋Aileen Mary Eleanor Drabble was a young woman just out of school when in 1911 she immigrated to Canada along with her family. They left the comfort of upper class British society to start again in Vancouver then a booming city on the edge of the Canadian frontier. Impetuous and headstrong Aileen soon fell in love with a gold prospector. Together they embarked on a 40-year adventure marked by both great elation and deep adversity. Whether in Vancouver or in the wilderness of BC's interior, Aileen known as Mimi to her family, left an indelible impression on nearly everyone she met. More than 30 years after her death those who knew her still tell stories about her. Though never famous she was very much a pioneer whose life in many ways paralleled the journey of her adopted country from a British colony to an independent nation....