The Long Way Home: A Personal History of Nova Scotia

The Long Way Home: A Personal History of Nova Scotia

The 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.
Â Â Â The Long Way HomeÂ 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.Â
Â Â Â Equal parts narrative, memoir and meditation, The Long Way HomeÂ chronicles with enthralling clarity a complex and multi-dimensional story: the overwhelming of the first peoples and the arrival of a mÃ©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.
Â Â Â 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 greatâ€”with the right circumstances and a little luckâ€”it could be again.
Country USA
Brand McClelland & Stewart
Manufacturer McClelland & Stewart
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780771025112
Color Silver
ReleaseDate 2017-10-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780771025112

Country	USA
Brand	McClelland & Stewart
Manufacturer	McClelland & Stewart
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780771025112
Color	Silver
ReleaseDate	2017-10-03
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780771025112

The Long Way Home: A Personal History of Nova Scotia

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