Bay of Hope: Five Years in Newfoundland (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781770413825)

A "come from away" exploring love, loneliness, and adventure in remote Newfoundland Part memoir, part nature writing, part love story, Bay of Hope is an occasionally comical, often adversarial, and always emotional story about the five years ecologist David Ward lived in an isolated Newfoundland community; of how he ended up there, worked, survived the elements, and coped with loneliness and a lack of intimacy. But this book is also a story about David's 78 McCallum, Newfoundland, neighbors, the unforgiving mountain and wilderness culture they call home, and why their government wishes they were dead. Creative nonfiction written in the tradition of Farley Mowat's Bay of Spirits, Ward's memoir is also evocative of Michael Crummey's poignant novel Sweetland and Annie Dillard's Pulitzer Prize-winning Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. A book about how great adventure tales do not always have to include dramatic, never-attempted, death-defying feats, Bay of Hope shows us that a person can travel a million miles over the treacherous terrain within their hearts, as long as they're courageous enough to make such an arduous trek.

Author: David Ward
ISBN-10: 1770413820
ISBN-13: 9781770413825
Publisher: ECW Press
Language: English
Published: 04/17/2018
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/04/2018