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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This is the story of William Moody, a British arts graduate who comes to Canada to learn about the backwoods that he read about as a boy in England. Except he has spent all his time in Toronto getting an M.A. and then teaching at a technical college. After he has risen quickly to the post of acting president of the college he is abruptly dismissed and he finally makes his way up north. There he manages to pass himself of as a guide is a fishing lodge. This last third of the book was the most enjoyable to me although some of the intrigues at the college (a thinly veiled Ryerson were the author teaches in real life) were interesting. ( )
When a book by Eric Wright arrives at the Geist office, I snap it up. I'm a mystery buff and Wright is one of my favourites. But Moodie's Tale, which just came in, is not a mystery; it's a humorous story about an Englishman who finds himself zooming up the academic ladder from English instructor to president of the W. C. Van Horne Institute of Technological Arts in one academic year—entirely due to other peoples' political manoeuvering. At the pinnacle of the presidency, he loses his job and heads north to experience the real Canada, where he manages to fake his way through a brief stint as a fishing guide and uses his childhood scouting skills to save his boss's life. Prijzen
When William Moodie takes a job teaching at the Van Horne Institute of Technological Education, the Young Englishman becomes an unwitting player in the frequently hilarious byzantine snakes and ladders games played in Canadian academia. Then, at the pinnacle of his administrative career, Moodie suddenly finds himself both unemployed and stranded in Canada. On the advice of a Canadian who, of course, has never been there, he sets out to discover the "real" Canada. Like his namesake Susanna, 140 years ago, William gets much more than his fair share of "Roughing It In The Bush." He finds himself somewhere North of Winnipeg, acting as a fishing guide to American tourists. When the bush plane in which he is a passenger, crashes in a remote area, Moodie finds himself once again stranded and face to face with a Canadian wilderness he never bargained for. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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