The Danger Tree: Memory, War and the Search for a Family's Past

The Danger Tree: Memory, War and the Search for a Family's PastEmulating the circuitous tales told by his mother's relatives, the Goodyears of Newfoundland, David Macfarlane has crafted a masterpiece of history and memory that will remain indelibly in the minds of its readers. Macfarlane weaves the major events of Newfoundland's twentieth century the ravages of tuberculosis; the great seal hunt disaster; the bitter debate over whether to become part of Canada; and above all, the First World War into a saga of the

Emulating the circuitous tales told by his mother's relatives, the Goodyears of Newfoundland, David Macfarlane has crafted a masterpiece of history and memory that will remain indelibly in the minds of its readers. Macfarlane weaves the major events of Newfoundland's twentieth century-the ravages of tuberculosis; the great seal-hunt disaster; the bitter debate over whether to become part of Canada; and above all, the First World War-into a saga of the ill-starred yet heroic fortunes of his family, who were rarely in control of events but often at the center of them. With deep affection, he brings to life a multigenerational cast of characters who are as colorful as only Newfoundlanders can be-heroes and charlatans, pirates and dreamers, whose humanity manages to illuminate and enrich our own.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 04/01/2001
ISBN: 9780802776167
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.22w x 0.93d

Review Citations: Atlantic Monthly 04/01/2001 pg. 104
Atlantic Monthly 12/01/2001 pg. 150
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2001 pg. 22