Worth Rereading/Selection from Northwest Bookshelves, 1880-1940.

The article presents information on the book "Woodsmen of the West," by M. Allerdale Grainger. The book was re-printed in 1996 as part of the new Canadian Library series. A lightly fictionalized autobiographical account, based upon Grainger's experiences as an educated British laborer in the forests of British Columbia, it is a story of men and machines overwhelmed by the sodden, passive weight of the maritime forests. Grainger's work rests on a contrast between the narrator, an overeducated newcomer beset by self doubt, and his fellow loggers, who have transformed themselves into members of a new species, the western man.