Horwood, Harold, 1923-2006.

Newfoundland / Harold Horwood.

Toronto : Macmillan of Canada, 1969.

x, 244 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 cm.

The Traveller's Canada

"Harold Horwood has many times journeyed the length and breadth of his native Newfoundland-by plane, car, boat, train, canoe, and on foot. From his travels he has distilled the essence of his province, at once the oldest European settlement in North America and Canda's newest province. Mr. Horwood knows Newfoundland intimately and shares with the reader his enthusiasm and delight in its people and places. He writes with a sure sense of the past, whether speaking of the Norse voyages, Peter Easton the pirate king, the tragic annihilation of the Beothuck Indians, or the struggle against desperate odds that is at the core of Newfoundland's history. Here too are the people of Newfoundland: the gently cadenced speech of the outport fisherman, the Indian of Labrador, the reaction of the St. Johnsman to the news, "There's flippers on the dock!" And who can resist the lure of the place-names--Twillingate and Little Heart's Ease, Topsail and Kelligrews? There is a deep awareness of the changing tempo of life, symbolized by the Churchill Falls power development in Labrador, as well as regret at the passing of some of the sturdy individuality that has characterized the Newfoundlander."--Publisher.

Travel
Newfoundland and Labrador Description and travel.
Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador Descriptions et voyages.
Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland
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Traveller's Canada.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main canada 112758
Cote: ID CAN; ID:86-B2603
Statut: Disponible