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3.0 out of 5 stars
History Worth Knowing, May 22 2008
This review is from: Newfoundland: Journey into a Lost Nation (Hardcover)
Can the success of a book be measured by the strength of emotion that it evoked in its reader? If so, Crummey and Locke's collaborative effort is a success in the way that it made me want to know more about Newfoundland. Still, though, the book itself isn't great in every sense of the word, for Crummey's essay is a rambling, sometimes incoherent, mostly personal history, and Locke's pictures don't always capture the meaning that, I gather, they hold to Crummey and Locke. Writing and taking pictures of home can be a tricky thing because what's home to one is nothing to another. But with all that said: loads of the pictures are full of life, and though it seems to only scratch the surface of the history of Newfoundland, you come away feeling as if it is a history worth appreciating.
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