An engaging environmental and literary history of Upper Canada focusing on British colonialism, Indigenous activism, and cross-cultural exchange.
“The authors succeed in telling a story which is at once eminently readable and engaging, brisk but scholarly – a narrative rooted in an ever-expanding literature on immigration, reception, and personal experience.” British Review of Canadian Studies
Kevin Hutchings is professor of English and university research chair at the University of Northern British Columbia and author of Romantic Ecologies and Colonial Cultures in the British Atlantic World, 1770-1850 and Imagining Nature: Blake's Environmental Poetics.