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National bestseller From one of our nation’s most beloved and iconic authors comes a lyrical 150th birthday gift to Canada Award-winning author Jane Urquhart explores fifty Canadian objects that tell us who we are in a way never before done. The Globe and Mail praises Urquhart in writing about these objects “with an ethereal, emotional tangibility that is both nostalgic and energetic.” The artefacts include a Nobel Peace Prize medal, a literary cherry tree, a royal cowcatcher, a Beothuk legging, a famous skull and an iconic artist’s shoe, as well as an Innu tea doll, a Sikh RCMP turban, a Cree basket, a Massey-Harris tractor and a hanging rope, among an array of other unexpected and intriguing objects. Each object is beautifully illustrated by the noted artist Scott McKowen, with Jane Urquhart conjuring and distilling meaning and magic from these unexpected facets of our history. In this compelling portrait of a completely original country called Canada, a master novelist has given all of us a national birthday bouquet like no other.
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A Number of Things, Jane Urquhart, Scott McKowen
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- Released
- 2017
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- Title
- A Number of Things
- Subtitle
- Stories of Canada Told Through Fifty Objects
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jane Urquhart, Scott McKowen
- Publisher
- Patrick Crean Editions
- Released
- 2017
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 248
- ISBN10
- 1443432075
- ISBN13
- 9781443432078
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, Nature, Short Stories, Opinion Journalism & Essays, Canada, Canadian Literature
- Description
- National bestseller From one of our nation’s most beloved and iconic authors comes a lyrical 150th birthday gift to Canada Award-winning author Jane Urquhart explores fifty Canadian objects that tell us who we are in a way never before done. The Globe and Mail praises Urquhart in writing about these objects “with an ethereal, emotional tangibility that is both nostalgic and energetic.” The artefacts include a Nobel Peace Prize medal, a literary cherry tree, a royal cowcatcher, a Beothuk legging, a famous skull and an iconic artist’s shoe, as well as an Innu tea doll, a Sikh RCMP turban, a Cree basket, a Massey-Harris tractor and a hanging rope, among an array of other unexpected and intriguing objects. Each object is beautifully illustrated by the noted artist Scott McKowen, with Jane Urquhart conjuring and distilling meaning and magic from these unexpected facets of our history. In this compelling portrait of a completely original country called Canada, a master novelist has given all of us a national birthday bouquet like no other.