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Book Description: Knopf Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada, 1995. Soft Cover. Book Condition: New. New softcover with illustrated cover. 317 pages. Pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. Based on true events in 1820. Bookseller Inventory # 036676

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Book Description: Random House of Canada Ltd 2001-09-01, 2001. Book Condition: NEW. Dust Jacket Condition: NEW. Binding: PAPERBACK // There IS a difference between TRULY NEW and "like new". We sell only TRULY NEW product obtained directly from the publisher's distributor. We wrap in CARDBOARD! (Bubble wrap by itself is NOT protection from typical USPS handling!) We do NOT obtain product from ANY other sources. We have NO pre-owned material. If you demand TRULY NEW, shipped with CARDBOARD protection, and free USPS package tracking, then BookLoversUSA is the way to go. // NOTE THESE IMPORTANT DETAILS ABOUT THIS ITEM: Binding/format is: Paperback. 8.00 H x 1.00 D x 5.00 W inches 0.85 lbs. Language: English. ISBN 9780394280837. Bookseller Inventory # 1268197

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Book Description: Vintage Books Canada, 1995. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 131mm x 24mm x 205mm. "A Discovery of Strangers tells of the meeting of two civilizations - the first encounter of the nomadic Dene people with Europeans - in an imaginative reconstruction of John Franklin's first map-making expedition in 1819—21 in what is now the Northwest Territories. At the heart of the novel is a love story between twenty-two-year-old midshipman Robert Hood, the Franklin expedition's artist, and a fifteen-year-old Yellowknife girl known to the British as Greenstockings. A national bestseller, published also in Germany and China, Wiebe's first novel in eleven years and his twelfth work of fiction won him his second Governor General's Award for Fiction at the age of sixty, over strong competition from Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro. It is a story of love, murder, greed and passion in an unforgiving Arctic landscape. French-Canadian voyageurs paddle the small British expedition into the land of the Yellowknives to search for the fabled Northwest Passage. While this trip would not prove as disastrous as Franklin's third expedition, nevertheless more than half his men did not survive the harsh conditions. The long winter stopover allows for interchange between the cultures. When the son of a Lancashire clergyman and the daughter of a native elder fall in love, they devise a language of their own to cross their wordless divide. Hood will not survive to see the birth of his daughter, perishing in 1821 in an attempt to reach Greenstockings's band 450 kilometres south. Nor will the Yellowknives survive much longer: within twenty years, they will be all but wiped out by a smallpox epidemic brought by the white men. The novel is the work of a poetic mind, written in several voices: ofthe British explorers, of the Tetsot'ine people - named Yellowknife by the strangers - and, most unexpected of all, of the animals that live on the Barrenlands. Wiebe climbs inside the characters, bringing them and the North to life. "Most Canadians have never seen that landscape. Yet I see it as being at the centre of our national psyche. That's the roots of our world, right there." He began work on the novel in earnest following a canoe trip between the Coppermine River and the site of Fort Enterprize in 1988, when he was first enraptured by the landscape. The novel contains vivid images, such as stunning descriptions of caribou bursting through snow. In calling the Arctic 'A Land Beyond Words, ' Wiebe admits how difficult it was to do it justice. "I think there's always a total contradiction in even trying to do such a novel," he said in an interview, "and yet it's the very contradiction out of which any kind of artistic struggle must come. It's not even worth trying if it doesn't seem impossible." In researching historical sources, Wiebe found letters, earlier accounts of the region such as those of Samuel Hearne, as well as oral stories and mythology told by the Dene elders. "I take the facts, as many of the facts as history gives me, and I use them to tell the story that I believe these facts tell us beyond themselves How did it happen, why did it happen, what was going on inside people's heads while it was happening, why did they do what they did?" Franklin's book on the first expedition contained a small paragraph mentioning Greenstockings as the most beautiful girl of the Dene, and a sketch of her and her father Keskarrah drawn by Robert Hood. Wiebe also discovereda claim made years later by one of the members of the team that Greenstockings had had a child by Hood (these facts are related in his book "Playing Dead: A Contemplation Concerning the Arctic). From these details, he created a powerful story of their union. "It's imagination all right, but it has to be an informed imagination." The "Kingston Whig-Standard claimed the book "is to the North what "Big Bear was to the West - an imaginative, and possibly definitive, evocation of a crucial time, place and situatio. Bookseller Inventory # S4481853