Canada: Tomorrow's Giant

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-900261-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 224 mm x 152 mm, Gewicht: 381 g

Published 15 years after his Governor General's award-winning The Unknown Country, Bruce Hutchison's Canada: Tomorrow's Giant is a vivid portrait of the nation on the verge of the 1960s. Finding Canada changed "outwardly in many places beyond recognition and inwardly everywhere," Hutchison invites readers to join him in a "casual, disordered tour across the nation and some of its wilderness" to discover the new Canada. The result is a portrait of a country in the making that
still resonates today.

Canada: Tomorrow's Giant, like its predecessor The Unknown Country, was awarded the Governor General's Award for creative nonfiction. The Wynford edition includes a new introduction by Vaughn Palmer, one of Canada's foremost political journalists and a winner of the Bruce Hutchison Award. Palmer's introduction puts both the book and Hutchison's career in historical context for modern readers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hutchison, Bruce

Palmer, Vaughn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction to the Wynford Edition by Vaughn Palmer
Canadians
1: The Misty Island
Landsmen by the Sea
2: The Kingdom of Joe Howe
Land and People
3: The Toy Continent
Green Flames
4: The Land of Peter Emberley
When Sap is Flowing
5: The Lost Peasant
Summer's Madmen
6: The Fortress
Wood and Fire
7: The Homeland
Men without Names
8: The Cliff
Northern Bouquet
9: The Shield
Golden Days
10: The Hub
Cowboy from Holland
11: The Big Farm
Whistle in the Hills
12: The Big Dreamers
Cold
13: The Long Day
Final Nocturne
14: The Trail's End
Dead Giant
15: The Big Trees
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hutchison, Bruce
Bruce Hutchison (1901-92) was one of Canada's foremost journalists. His career spanned most of the 20th century and he was the recipient of many honours, including three Governor General's Awards. In nearly 75 years of political reporting, Hutchison developed friendships with political personalities ranging from Louis St Laurent to Pierre Elliott Trudeau. His writings on Canada and its political figures were characterized by the confidential vignette, but he was criticized for partisan loyalty to the Liberal party-a charge he denied. His best-known book, The unknown country: Canada and her people (1943) is a delightful panorama of Canada. Hutchison also dealt successfully with the larger movements of politics and economics. His novel The hollow men (1944), the story of a newspaper correspondent disillusioned by world war, combines subtle political satire with sympathy for wilderness life.

Palmer, Vaughn
Vaughn Palmer, columnist, The Vancouver Sun has written the Introduction to the Wynford Edition.

Bruce Hutchison (1901-92) was one of Canada's foremost journalists. His career spanned most of the 20th century and he was the recipient of many honours, including three Governor General's Awards. In nearly 75 years of political reporting, Hutchison developed friendships with political personalities ranging from Louis St Laurent to Pierre Elliott Trudeau. His writings on Canada and its political figures were characterized by the confidential vignette, but he was criticized for partisan loyalty
to the Liberal party-a charge he denied. His best-known book, The unknown country: Canada and her people (1943) is a delightful panorama of Canada. Hutchison also dealt successfully with the larger movements of politics and economics. His novel The hollow men (1944), the story of a newspaper
correspondent disillusioned by world war, combines subtle political satire with sympathy for wilderness life.