{"product_id":"barkskins-a-novel","title":"Barkskins: A Novel","description":"xii, 717 pp. Now a television mini-series airing on National Geographic May 2020! In the late 17th century, two young Frenchmen, Rene Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters  -  barkskins. Rene suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. He is forced to marry a native woman and their descendants live trapped between two cultures. But Duquet runs away, becomes a fur trader, then sets up a timber business. Annie Proulx tells the stories of the descendants of Sel and Duquet over 300 years  -  their travels across North America, to Europe, China, and New Zealand  -  the revenge of rivals, accidents, pestilence, Indian attacks, and cultural annihilation. Over and over, they seize what they can of a presumed infinite resource, leaving the modern-day characters face to face with possible ecological collapse.","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40285073965126,"sku":"2327616","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2327616.jpg?v=1662656663","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/barkskins-a-novel","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}