By Great Waters : a Newfoundland and Labrador Anthology.

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This anthology offers readers a selection of Newfoundland writing which will illuminate the unfolding of the province's history and culture and at the same time command respect as literature.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Flaherty, Patrick
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1974.
Colección:Heritage.
Temas:
Canadian literature > Newfoundland and Labrador.
Canadian literature
Newfoundland and Labrador > History > Sources.
Labrador (N.L.) > Literary collections.
Newfoundland and Labrador > Literary collections.
Labrador (T.-N.-L.) > Anthologies.
Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador > Labrador
History
Literary collections
Sources
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Part 1 Discovery and Early Exploration
  • Vinland
  • Johan Day's Letter (1497)
  • Jacques Cartier Visits the Funks (1534)
  • The Letter of Stephen Parmenius (6 August 1583)
  • John Guy's Encounter with the Savages (1612)
  • John Mason's Account of Newfoundland (1620)
  • A Letter from Ferry land (18 August 1622)
  • Sir Richard Whitbourne's Description of His Newfoundland Adventures (1623)
  • Robert Hayman: 'Composed and Done at Harbour Grace' (1628)
  • Vaughan's 'Golden Island' Reconsidered (1630)
  • Part 2 Transatlantic Outpost
  • James Yonge: A Plymouth Surgeon in Newfoundland (1663)
  • Abbe Jean Baudoin: The 'Winter War' of 1696-7
  • Government and Religion (1762)
  • Jens Haven: 'Here is an Innuit' (1764)
  • Griffith Williams: An English View of Irish Settlers (1765)
  • Joseph Banks, Scientist and Gentleman (1766)
  • George Cartwright: 'Too Many Houses, Too Much Smoke, Too Many People' (1772-3)
  • Lawrence Coughlan: 'A Precious People' (1776)
  • John Hoskins: A Methodist Missionary in Trinity Bay (1774-84)
  • David Buchan's Expedition to the Interior (1811)
  • Patrick Morris: A Plea for Reform. The Case of James Landergan(1818)
  • William Cormack Reaches the Interior of Newfoundland (1822)
  • William Wilson: Shanandithit, the Last of the Beothucks (1823)
  • Part 3 The Colonial Era
  • Edward Wix: Wrecking (1835)
  • Joseph Jukes: 'Overboard with You! Gaffs and Pokers!' (1840)
  • Thomas Talbot: 'A Baptism of Violence' (1840)
  • Richard Bonnycastle: The Class Structure in Newfoundland (1842)
  • Philip Tocque: Drowning a Dog (1846)
  • John Grace: The Petty Harbour Bait Skiff (1852)
  • Robert Lowell: An Official Examination from Which Something Appears (1858)
  • Julian Moreton: A Parson and His People (1863)
  • Daniel Prowse: 'The Poor Man's Road' (1880).
  • Frederick Lloyd: Winter Scenes from the Great Northern Peninsula (1882-4)
  • Moses Harvey: The Great Fire of 8 July 1892
  • Henry Beckles Willson: Loiterers (1897)
  • Part 4 North Atlantic Dominion
  • Norman Duncan: Reflections on the Death of Solomon Stride, Fisherman (1902)
  • Dillon Wallace: Prisoners of the Wind (1903)
  • James Connolly: The Drawn Shutters (1905)
  • Norman Duncan: 'A Great Lottery of Hope and Fortune' (1905)
  • Daniel Carroll: Arthur. In Memoriam: Captain Arthur Jackman (1907)
  • Wilfred Grenfell: Adrift on an Ice-Pan (1908)
  • Horace G. Hutchinson: Outport Man Refashioned (1910)
  • Fishermen's Protective Union: 'Forty Thousand Strong' (1913)
  • Joshua Stansford Calls on Friends (1910, 1916)
  • John Devine: The Badger Drive (c 1915)
  • Henry Gordon: Spanish 'Flu in Labrador (1918)
  • Nicholas Smith: Coming Home from Labrador (1919)
  • George England: 'Man's Mark and Sign and Signal in the North' (1922)
  • Edwin Pratt: 'An Edge for Human Grief (1923-32)
  • Bob Bartlett's Boyhood (1928)
  • Sir William Coaker Bows Out (1930)
  • Part 5 Breakers Ahead
  • Joseph Smallwood: Newfoundland Today (1931)
  • Arthur Scammell: The Six-Horsepower Coaker (1940)
  • Margaret Duley: The Healer (1941)
  • Peter Dalzel Job: 'White Bread and Canned Food' (1947)
  • Arthur Scammell: Hard Cash (1950)
  • Ron Pollett: Memories of Didder Hill (1951)
  • Farley Mowat: 'This Unquiet Seaboard' (1958)
  • Paul West: A Lullaby Too Rough (1963)
  • Franklin Russell: The Island of Auks (1965)
  • Harold Horwood: Tomorrow will be Sunday (1966)
  • Edward Russell: Uncle Mose Begins His Chronicles (1966)
  • Alfred Purdy: Beothuck Indian Skeleton in Glass Case (1968)
  • Eugene Cloutier: 'What Do the Young People Dream Of?'
  • Paul O'Neill: Iceland Poppies (1968)
  • Selected Secondary Material on Aspects of Newfoundland Literature.

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