The author returns to his roots in the Canadian prairies and offers humorous anecdotes of people and places he visited and vivid observations of the landscape and wildlife of the area

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Mark Abley grew up in Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan. He studied literature at the University of Saskatchewan and, after winning a Rhodes Scholarship, at St. John’s College, Oxford. Among his books are Beyond Forget: Rediscovering the Prairies (1986); Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages (2003); and The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches From the Future of English (2008). He writes a language column for the Montreal Gazette.

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