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The Long Way Home: A Personal History of Nova Scotia (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780771025112)
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xThe province's premier journalist tells the story he was born to write. No journalist has travelled the back roads, hidden vales and fog-soaked coves of Nova Scotia as widely as John DeMont. No writer has spent as much time considering its peculiar warp and weft of humanity, geography and history.
The Long Way Home is the summation of DeMont's years of travel, research and thought. It tells the story of what is, from the European view of things, the oldest part of Canada. Before Confederation it was also the richest, but now Nova Scotia is among the poorest. Its defining myths and stories are mostly about loss and sheer determination.
Equal parts narrative, memoir and meditation, The Long Way Home chronicles with enthralling clarity a complex and multi-dimensional story: the overwhelming of the first peoples and the arrival of a m lange of pioneers who carved out pockets of the wilderness; the random acts and unexplained mysteries; the shameful achievements and noble failures; the rapture and misery; the twists of destiny and the cold-heartedness of fate.
This is the biography of a place that has been hardened by history. A place full of reminders of how great a province it has been and how great--with the right circumstances and a little luck--it could be again.
Author: John Demont
ISBN-10: 0771025114
ISBN-13: 9780771025112
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Language: English
Published: 10/03/2017
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.20d
The Long Way Home is the summation of DeMont's years of travel, research and thought. It tells the story of what is, from the European view of things, the oldest part of Canada. Before Confederation it was also the richest, but now Nova Scotia is among the poorest. Its defining myths and stories are mostly about loss and sheer determination.
Equal parts narrative, memoir and meditation, The Long Way Home chronicles with enthralling clarity a complex and multi-dimensional story: the overwhelming of the first peoples and the arrival of a m lange of pioneers who carved out pockets of the wilderness; the random acts and unexplained mysteries; the shameful achievements and noble failures; the rapture and misery; the twists of destiny and the cold-heartedness of fate.
This is the biography of a place that has been hardened by history. A place full of reminders of how great a province it has been and how great--with the right circumstances and a little luck--it could be again.
Author: John Demont
ISBN-10: 0771025114
ISBN-13: 9780771025112
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Language: English
Published: 10/03/2017
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.20d
By John Demont
xJOHN DEMONT is a senior writer and columnist for The Chronicle Herald and Herald Magazine. He is an award-winning journalist and author with more than 25 years of experience. A former national correspondent for Maclean's magazine, his books include Citizens Irving, The Last Best Place, Coal Black Heart, and, most recently, A Good Day's Work.
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