Another Country, Another Life
Calumny, Love, and the Secrets of Isaac Jelfs| By: | J. Patrick Boyer |
| Publisher: | Dundurn |
| Print ISBN: | 9781459708402 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781459708426 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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A young law clerk from England falls in love in 19th-century New York and reinvents himself in Canada. Quiet Isaac Jelfs led many lives: a scapegoated law clerk in England; a soldier in the mad Crimean War; a lawyer on swirling Broadway Avenue in New York. His escape from each was wrapped in deep secrecy. He eventually reached Canada, in 1869, with a new wife and a changed name. In his new home — the remote wilderness of Muskoka — he crafted yet another persona for himself. In Another Country, Another Life, his great-grandson traces that long-hidden journey, exposing Isaac Jelfs’ covered tracks and the reasons for his double life.