Settlement. Ann Birch
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Название: Settlement

Автор: Ann Birch

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Историческая литература

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isbn: 9781926607207

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      SETTLEMENT

       Ann Birch

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      Text © 2010 Ann Birch

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, digital, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior consent of the publisher.

      Cover design by Emma Dolan

      Author photo by Studio Anka

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      We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities.

      RendezVous Press

      an imprint of Napoleon & Company

      Toronto, Ontario, Canada

      www.napoleonandcompany.com

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      Printed in Canada

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      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Birch, Ann

       Settlement / Ann Birch.

      ISBN 978-1-926607-04-7

      I. Title.

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      This book is dedicated to

      Martha Lee Lawrence

      John Harvey Lawrence

      and

      Hugh John Lawrence

      remembering

      “the lamb white days”

      Table of Contents

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       Part Two: Summer Rambles

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       AFTERWORD

       AUTHOR’S NOTE

       York, 1817

      The duellists and their seconds agreed to spend the night of July 17 in Elmsley’s barn just north of the town. No one would think of looking for members of York’s élite in such a place. There they would be able to hide from magistrates or family members who might try to put a stop to the wretched affair.

      Sam Jarvis and his friend, Henry Boulton, arrived first and climbed СКАЧАТЬ