6 edition of Scoundrels, dreamers & second sons found in the catalog.
Published
2001
by Dundurn Press in Toronto, Tonawanda, N.Y
.
Written in English
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-219) and index.
| Other titles | Scoundrels, dreamers, and second sons |
| Statement | Mark Zuehlke. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | F1060.97.B7 Z84 2001 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | 229 p. : |
| Number of Pages | 229 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL3599426M |
| ISBN 10 | 1550023691 |
| LC Control Number | 2002327183 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 47365344 |
Banff’s Jimmy Simpson was many things during his life: hunter, guide, practical joker, art and book lover, poacher and remittance man. In fact, historian and author Mark Zuehlke, in his recently re-released book Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons: British Remittance Men in the Canadian West, sees Simpson as the archetypal remittance man. Praise for Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons! ← Back to Book Main Page Praise for Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons “It will make an entertaining summer read, especially for readers who live in some of the communities across the west where the remittance men had their brief turn on the Canadian stage.”.
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Remittance man’ was meant to be a disparaging term. It reflected the fact that these young men had been sent to the co Brand: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd. Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons (Paperback; ISBN): Beginning inthousands of young, upper-class British men with few prospects were sent to the Canadian West to distance them from British soci.
Scoundrels is a series of comic adventure novels first published inby Major Victor Cornwall and Major Arthur St John Trevelyan (the pseudonyms of the authors Duncan Crowe and James Peak, who also feature as the book's unwilling editors).
Print copies are published by Black Door Press Ltd, of Fitzrovia, London and distributed by Turnaround Ltd, of Wood Green, London.
In Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons, first published fifteen years ago, Mark Zuehlke traces the path of the remittance men through Western Canada, highlighting their adventures, limited successes and glorious failures.
Mark Zuehlke grew up in the Okanagan Valley of BC hearing stories of British remittance men. Fascinated by both the actual stories and romantic myths, Zuehlke made them the subject of his first work of history—Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons.
Zuehlke's many books include the Canadian Battle Series; the Military Heritage Series; and his award-winning Pages: Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons: British Remittance Men in the Canadian West by Zuehlke, Mark and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons: British Remittance Men in the Canadian West.
Between andthousands of British remittance men came to the Canadian West, urged overseas by a rapidly changing British society. In a land of cowboys and loggers, their attempts to recreate the aura of landed gentility were sometimes misunderstood-and.
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Mark Zuehlke grew up in the Okanagan Valley of BC hearing stories of British remittance men. Fascinated by both the actual stories and romantic myths, Zuehlke made them the subject of his first work of history--Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second e's many books include the Canadian Battle Series; the Military Heritage Series; and his award-winning /5(12).
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It reflected the fact that these young men had been sent to the co. Dundurn Press, the original imprint of The Dundurn Group, was founded by Kirk Howard and Ian Low in With a strong focus on Canadian history, biography, and art, Dundurn has significantly contributed to a deeper understanding of Canadian history and culture, publishing such landmark books as Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century, The Loyalist Mosaic, and First.
Article content continued. Many of them came to Canada in those decades, and Victoria writer Mark Zuehlke’s book Scoundrels, Dreamers and Second Sons, re-issued this spring by Harbour Publishing.
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Scoundrels, dreamers & second sons: British remittance men in the Canadian west. [Mark Zuehlke] -- "Remittance men" was a term used for young British men who settled in Canada and who were mostly "of aristocratic or upper-middle-class background, cultured, and supported by regular allowances sent.
ISBN: OCLC Number: Description: pages: illustrations ; 23 cm: Other Titles: Scoundrels, dreamers, and second sons.At home they had been scoundrels, dreamers, and second sons without future prospects. Perhaps in Australia, or South Africa, or the Canadian west they would make something of themselves.
If they didn’t, at least they would be far enough away that little disgrace would fall upon their families. Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons.
British Remittance Men in the Canadian West. By Mark Zuehlke. Harbour Publishing. pages. $ It’s rare for a book’s title to so perfectly describe its contents, but Mark Zuehlke’s first serious popular history book does just that.
