An Innocent in Newfoundland - Even More Rambles and Singular Encounters

David W McFadden

ISBN 10: 0771055358 / ISBN 13: 9780771055355

Published by M & S, 2003

About this Item

pp.308 with index clean tight copy Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 027017

Bibliographic Details

• Title: An Innocent in Newfoundland - Even More Rambles and Singular Encounters
• Publisher: M & S
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0771055358
• ISBN 13: 9780771055355
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First.
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • CANADA
  • TRAVEL LITERATURE

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Synopsis

David McFadden travels around Newfoundland. Who knows which was most charmed

In An Innocent in Ireland (1995) and An Innocent in Scotland (1999), poet and traveller David McFadden let the spirit of the country – and his own interests – guide his rambles. He has now done the same in Newfoundland.

Zigzagging across the province in his rented car, he charts an erratic course, admiring lawn sculpture (in his opinion a new local art), visiting fellow poets and publishers, wandering at dusk among the Viking mounds at L’Anse aux Meadows, rooming with a Salvation Army family in a distant outport (and discovering a family tragedy), hanging on in a stiff wind to watch birds nesting on a cliff face, and enjoying the social life in countless bars and restaurants.

It soon becomes clear that McFadden’s love of a good chat is shared widely by the people he meets in Newfoundland and he is wise enough to let them tell their own stories. For, as ever, his interest is in the heart of a place – and not just its scenery.

Alert, somewhat eccentric, always ready to amuse and be amused, David McFadden is an ideal travelling companion.

About the Author

David W. McFadden has published over twenty books of poetry and prose, including Gypsy Guitar, nominated for a Governor General’s Award in 1987 and The Art of Darkness, nominated for a Governor General’s Award in 1984. He lives in Toronto.