{"product_id":"9780921149996","title":"Greenbank","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\" font-weight: bold\u003eWinner: Canadian Historical Association - Best Regional History, 1988\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eUsing the lives of four families as its focus, \u003cspan style=\"\" font-style: italic\u003eGreenbank\u003c\/span\u003e broadens to explore and capture with extraordinary vividness life as a whole in early \r\n\t\r\n\t\r\n\t\u003cst1:country-region\u003e\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\u003cst1:place\u003eCanada\u003c\/st1:place\u003e\u003c\/st1:country-region\u003e. The remarkable will of the early pioneers, and the dissipation of that will in succeeding generations; the creation of an educational system from scratch; the hardships of everyday life, and the simple recreations that helped to dispel them; the coming of the railways; the subcurrent of alcohol's influence on the culture, and the fight against it; the harsh ethic of evangelism, which gave shape to so many of the attitudes of the people — all these are recurrent themes in \u003cspan style=\"\" font-style: italic\u003eGreenbank\u003c\/span\u003e. Within this broad canvas the lives of individual people are the brush strokes that bring life as a whole into vivid and poignant focus.\r\n\t\r\n\t\r\n\t\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in \r\n\t\r\n\t\r\n\t\u003cst1:country-region\u003e\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\u003cst1:place\u003eCanada\u003c\/st1:place\u003e\u003c\/st1:country-region\u003e in 1988 to extraordinary acclaim, \u003cspan style=\"\" font-style: italic\u003eGreenbank \u003c\/span\u003eis now available throughout the world in an accessible paperback format.\r\n\t\r\n\t\r\n\t\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hugh Graham (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":58120596881568,"sku":"9780921149996","price":25.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_d4470e67-3406-482b-93fe-9a3e1b7a52f8.jpg?v=1782765083","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9780921149996","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}