Dear Everybody: A Woman's Journey From Park Avenue to a Labrador Trapline - Softcover

Budgell, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 192709917X ISBN 13: 9781927099179

Publisher: Boulder Publications, 2014

Synopsis

In 1947, Manhattan socialite Barbara Mundy left a life of privilege and travelled deep into the interior of Labrador, as a volunteer with the Grenfell Mission. She quickly became enamoured with the area’s natural beauty and found it more intriguing than her life among New York’s social elite. She discovered a love for hunting, canoeing, and camping—and for fur trapper Russell Groves.
However, accustomed to a life of solitude, Russell had little patience for his new bride’s lack of experience on a trap line. During their first two tumultuous years together, Barbara wrote letters chronicling the difficulties faced by a couple drawn together from vastly different backgrounds.
Anne Budgell uses these letters, as well as Barbara Mundy’s diaries and notes, to tell her remarkable story. Dear Everybody brings readers back to a remote place and time, through the eyes of a born adventurer.

About this title

About the Author:

Anne Budgell grew up on military bases all over Canada, until her parents returned home to Labrador in 1966. Her first trip to Newfoundland was in 1967 to attend Memorial University. She had a long career as a radio and television journalist with CBC in Newfoundland and Labrador, retiring in 2007.

About this edition

• Publisher: Boulder Publications
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 192709917X
• ISBN 13: 9781927099179
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300