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Arriving in New France in the late seventeenth century as two penniless Frenchmen, Rene Sel and Charles Duquet become wood-cutters bound to a feudal lord for three years in exchange for land.  The pairs lives take immensely different directions, the effects of which take a significant toil of their descendants over the next hundred years . . . 

A magnificent marriage of history and imagination, Barkskins is an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about the taking down of the world's forests.

“Part ecological fable, part foundational saga, Proulx's story builds in depth and complication without becoming unduly tangled and is always told with the most beautiful language.” -- Kirkus Reviews