Sentence examples for settler experience from inspiring English sources

The Broken Word has been compared to Basil Bunting's "The Spoils", but where Bunting offers a sense of cultural polyphony, Foulds focuses almost exclusively on the white settler experience.

With a solid sense of history as well as an eye for the whimsical detail, Mr. Milton (also the author of "Nathaniel's Nutmeg") captures the full peril and strangeness of the settlers' experience, underscoring their disadvantage in having only limited information about the New World.

Her fidelity to the settlers' experiences, rendered on a modest production budget, extended to what might be called ambient elements of the filmmaking: preferring boom-recorded sound over radio mikes, which "brought a feeling that was not period," or pushing a Steadicam on a dolly to avoid the sensation of a motorized glide.

It is the new frontier of reaching youth but one that has its share of dangers like the early settlers experienced in the old west.

But one survey found that 94% of settlers had previous agricultural experience and 79% said their lives had improved.That seems true of the 86 families at the Manoel Neto settlement, founded in 2006 in São Paulo state.

Australia provided settlers with climatic experiences that were vastly different from those they were familiar with and, in this way, heat has played a fundamental part in influencing patterns of population settlement for more than 200 years.

Willa Cather sharply rendered the experience of Plains settlers in her novels.

This rare achievement produced a timeless masterpiece about the experience of European settlers in Australia.

By the end of the 15th century they seem to have disappeared from England, though in Scotland they hung on a little longer: in 1563 Mary Queen of Scots had 2,000 Highlanders drive the woods of Atholl for a hunt that bagged 360 deer and five wolves.America's original settlers, then, had no previous experience of wolves.

"The book recounts a quintessential moment in the early frontier experience of New England's settlers".

Among these settlers is Patrick Gale's fictional Harry Cane, whose experience is loosely based on that of Gale's own great-grandfather.