Fascinating Canada: A Book of Questions and Answers - Softcover

Colombo, John Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554889235 ISBN 13: 9781554889235

Publisher: Dundurn Press, 2011

Synopsis

Few people have read as widely in the field of Canadiana as has John Robert Colombo. The curiosity of this Toronto writer, editor, and anthologist knows few if any bounds when it comes to the lore, literature, history, culture, and character of Canada. He has an inquiring mind and he seems able to find national and even international twists to subjects of interest or importance.

Fascinating Canada, his latest book, is the product of over half a century of research, reading, writing, and thinking. Some years ago the author produced a trilogy of question-and-answer books 1,000 Questions about Canada, 999 Questions about Canada, 1,000 Questions about Canada. The first two were published by Doubleday Canada, the third one in 2001 by Dundurn Press. The same format is adapted to the material in the present book, but this time the majority of the questions are short whereas a good many of the answers are quite long discussions of the subjects at hand: concise questions followed by considered answers.

Here is a book about the Canadian past, present, and future. The information in Fascinating Canada is organized under four headings (People, Places, Things, Ideas) and there is a detailed Index for ready reference. This book may serve as a work of popular reference, but it has been written to stimulate inquiry and spark the sense of surprise in the minds of readers who know something about this amazing country but perhaps not as much as the author. Open this book and begin to read ... and match wits with author and researcher John Robert Colombo.

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Here is a book about Canadian past, present, and future. It may serve as a work of reference, but it has been written to stimulate inquiry and spark the sense of surprise in the minds of readers who know something about this country but perhaps not as much as the author. Open this book, being to read, and match wits with author John Robert Colombo.

About the Author:

John Robert Colombo has been called "Canada’s Mr. Mystery". A respected and prolific writer, editor, TV host, and anthologist, he is the author of numerous books on the supernatural and the paranormal, including Haunted Toronto, Ghost Stories of Ontario, and The Big Book of Canadian Ghost Stories. Colombo is the recipient of the Harbourfront International Literary Award and holds an honorary doctorate from York University and lives in Toronto.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1554889235
• ISBN 13: 9781554889235
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248