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Barkskins: Longlisted for the Baileys Women?s Prize for Fiction 2017.rom Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain, comes her masterwork: an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about the taking down of the world?s forests.In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, Ren? Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord, a ?seigneur,? for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters ? barkskins. Ren? suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. He is forced to marry a Mi?kmaw woman and their descendants live trapped between two inimical cultures. But Duquet, crafty and ruthless, runs away from the seigneur, becomes a fur trader, then sets up a timber business. Proulx tells the stories of the descendants of Sel and Duquet over three hundred years ? their travels across North America, to Europe, China, and New Zealand, under stunningly brutal conditions; the revenge of rivals; accidents; pestilence; Indian attacks; and cultural annihilation. Over and over again, they seize what they can of a presumed infinite resource, leaving the modern-day characters face to face with possible ecological collapse. F