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West to the Bay

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In 1750, Thomas Gunn, at the side of three friends, sign up for the Hudson’s Bay Company and sail from Stromness on the Orkney Islands of northern Scotland to York Factory fort on Hudson’s Bay. They imagine they’re starting a new and exciting life in what is referred to as Rupert’s Land, but tragedy follows them, striking for the first time on the ship. At the fort Thomas finds his older brother, Edward, who had joined four years earlier. He also meets Little Bird, sister of Edward’s wife, and her circle of relatives. All over the first year Thomas takes part in the goose and duck hunts, the fishing, the woodcutting, Guy Fawkes Day, the Christmas celebrations, and the burial of a friend. He also deals with the snowfall, the cold, the boredom, and a suicide, and learns live to tell the tale in the lonely and infrequently inhospitable land.

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