- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Canada (APB) (Feb 13 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0140298126
- ISBN-13: 978-0140298123
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #801,189 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
"It seems to me that Canadian sensibility...is less perplexed by the question 'Who am I?' than by some riddle as 'Where is here?'"—Northrop Frye
Canadians have been confronted by this riddle since the first hunters appeared on the frozen northern tundra via the Bering land bridge. Our resonant memories are not of armed revolutionaries but of settlers and explorers—men brandishing maps rather than muskets. The first Canadians, the Aboriginal peoples, learned to survive by charting the land and sea with stories, songs and stones. The Europeans who followed them employed modern tools to draw their own lines, using maps as agents of exploration and conquest.
In Where Is Here?, Alan Morantz tells the story of the maps that made Canada and that, in turn, have made us Canadian. He examines how the inhabitants of this land have used maps for their own purposes—some laudable, some creative and some despicable. And he shows us how maps—made by Inuit hunters, hobos, explorers, missionaries, adventurers, marketers and artists—are often windows on our world views, our assumptions and our dreams. They mirror the best and worst in human nature. They tell the story of Canada.
About the Author
Alan Morantz is a Kingston, Ontario, journalist, a former editor of Equinox and a contributor to Canadian magazines such as Canadian Geographic and Cottage Life.
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