Hudson Bay

By R. M. Ballantyne
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Length9h 31m

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Excerpt: "Reader,—I take for granted that you are tolerably well acquainted with the different modes of life and travelling peculiar to European nations. I also presume that you know something of the inhabitants of the East; and, it may be, a good deal of the Americans in general. But I suspect—at least I would fain hope—that you have only a vague and indefinite knowledge of life in those wild, uncivilised regions of the northern continent of America that surround the shores of Hudson Bay. I would fain hope this, I say, that I may have the satisfaction of giving you information on the subject, and of showing you that there is a body of civilised men who move, and breathe (pretty cool air, by the way!), and spend their lives in a quarter of the globe as totally different, in most respects, from the part you inhabit, as a beaver, roaming among the ponds and marshes of his native home, is from that sagacious animal when converted into a fashionable hat. About the middle of May eighteen hundred and forty-one, I was thrown into a state of ecstatic joy by the arrival of a letter appointing me to the enviable situation of apprentice clerk in the service of the Honourable Hudson Bay Company. To describe the immense extent to which I expanded, both mentally and bodily, upon the receipt of this letter, is impossible; it is sufficient to know that from that moment I fancied myself a complete man of business, and treated my old companions with the condescending suavity of one who knows that he is talking to his inferiors."

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Rating★★★★ 3.9 (35)
Includes Goodreads
GenreLiterary Classics
Length9 hrs 31 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 20, 2020
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Introduction
8Chapter Six.
2Preface.
9Chapter Seven.
3Chapter One.
10Chapter Eight.
4Chapter Two.
11Chapter Nine.
5Chapter Three.
12Chapter Ten.
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6Chapter Four.
13Chapter Eleven.
7Chapter Five.
14Chapter Twelve.

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