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The Trees Hardcover – 1 June 1940

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Publisher : Random House Inc (1 June 1940)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 0394449517
ISBN-13 : 978-0394449517

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The new world

Reviewed in Canada on 4 October 2016

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A comprehensive look at early Americana

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Two Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 October 2014

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Not what was expected. Found it very hard going.

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A wonderful book

Reviewed in the United States on 11 August 2019

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"Trees" (the first book of a trilogu) is a wondeful book by a writer I had never heard about (until I read David McCollough's "The Pioneers"). I was dazzled, through-out, by what the writer (Conrad Richter) SEES (and "knows") -- and by how riveting showing us THESE things was. This is writing of a very high order.

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An important trilogy but flawed

Reviewed in the United States on 31 March 2019

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This review is actually for the entire trilogy. In many ways a powerful, iconic work. Definitely worth a read by anyone interested in American literature and history.
Leaving it at four stars because it is marred by occasional ugly racism. You could definitely make the case that the narrator is voicing the racism of the characters, and that not all characters share these views. And we need to remember that the books were published about 80 years ago. But the descriptions of native Americans are troubling, to say the least.

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Nina A. Schwartz

Wonderful! Should be taught in high school

Reviewed in the United States on 1 February 2020

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I had just finished David McCullough's The Pioneers when I read The Trees, both about the settlement of Ohio. Both books tell much that modern Americans either don't know or have forgotten--and, read together, would make a nice joint syllabus for an American History / English class. (Note: McCullough's book Brave Companions mentions Richter, which is what got me interested in this book.)
The Trees particularly shows the human cost of settlement: loneliness, fear, sickness, abuse, despair and death. Fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder will recognize the same setbacks and tragedies, seen in a more adult way. (History writing now is more about the cost to displaced Native Americans, which is right--but this is a story that shouldn't be lost in our desire to correct the imbalance.)
The story is told from the perspective of Sayward Luckett, a girl who leaves Pennsylvania with her family to make a new home in a log cabin in the Ohio valley. As cheerful, strong and practical as they come, she can't stave off a feeling sometimes that the woods is "winning." Yet for all the heartbreak, the book is optimistic and dwells on the settlers' kindness and accomplishments rather than their faults and setbacks. The speech of the settlers, lovingly researched by Richter, reads as natural and colloquial throughout.

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