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Steffler, John, 1947-
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Berczy, William, 1744-1813 -- Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction.
Upper Canada -- History -- Fiction.
Markham (Ont.) -- Fiction
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Steffler, John, 1947-
Berczy, William, 1744-1813 -- Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction.
Upper Canada -- History -- Fiction.
Markham (Ont.) -- Fiction
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German mills : a novel pertaining to the life & times of
William
Berczy
, painter, adventurer, spy, speculator, pioneer & incidental founder of the city of Markham, Upper Canada / John Steffler.
by
Steffler, John, 1947-
Gaspereau Press Printers & Publishers, 2015.
Call #:
FICTION
STE
Subjects
Berczy
,
William
,
1744-1813
--
Fiction
.
Frontier and pioneer life
--
Fiction
.
Upper Canada
--
History
--
Fiction
.
Markham (Ont.)
--
Fiction
ISBN:
9781554471485 (trade pbk.)
Description:
330 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"Talented, privileged and ambitious, the young
William
Berczy
is disaffected with the strictures of eighteenth-century European society. Quitting Germany to pursue a future of his own making,
Berczy
refashions himself as a secret envoy in war-torn Poland and a portrait painter in Italy before his charisma and skill for self-invention land him the ultimate romantic role-leading a group of German settlers into the American wilderness. After abandoning his deceitful partners and fleeing from the Gennesee Valley to Upper Canada with his settlers, Berczy’s facade of influence crumbles as he fails to secure either acceptance or success, his talent squandered on petitioning the powerful. Based on Berczy’s compelling, hyperbolic life, German Mills is a portrait of a man entangled in the vain romanticism and restless ambition that propelled the colonial dream and yet lurks just below the surface of Canadian society."--From publisher.
Genre:
Canadian
fiction
.
Historical
fiction
.
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