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Nova Scotia: A Traveller's Companion300 Years of Travel WritingEdited by Lesley ChoyceNova Scotia, History, Travel Order this book from:
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Novelist Lesley Choyce has assembled a varied and provocative array of writing about this province by residents and visitors through the centuries.
Much ink has been spilled over the years by those famous and not-so-famous travellers who have explored this province. There are both words of praise and words of scorn for the land, the weather and the people of Nova Scotia. Here is a journey in both time and place. The adventure begins with the reports of Samuel de Champlain in Port Royal in 1605 and the trail takes you from Yarmouth to Sydney, from Amherst to Canso. Halifax features prominently but so does Shelburne, Windsor, Pictou, Truro, Glace Bay, Digby, Wolfville, Chester, Dartmouth, Cape Sable Island, and many other stops along the way. Along with Champlain, you will have as your travelling companions Nicolas Denys, Captain James Cook, Joseph Howe, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Archibald MacMechan, and many more. You'll even experience a bumpy and dangerous trip around the Cabot Trail in the 1930s guided by T. Morris Longstreth.
This anthology is an entertaining traveller's companion sure to provide discoveries for both the history buff and the tourist.
Lesley Choyce is the author of Nova Scotia: Shaped by the Sea, a history of the province originally published by Penguin and re-issued in a revised edition by Pottersfield Press. He lives at Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia, and is the publisher of Pottersfield Press.
Lesley Choyce has also edited for Pottersfield Press: Ark of Ice: Canadian Futurefictions, The Mi'kmaq Anthology, The Mi'kmaq Anthology, Volume Two (with Rita Joe), Nova Scotia: Visions of the Future, and Pottersfield Nation: East of Canada. He is also the author of over fifty books, including, for Pottersfield Press: the novel Cold Clear Morning, the poetry collection The Coastline of Forgetting, children's books Far Enough Island and Famous At Last, and non-fiction books Driving Minnie's Piano: Memoirs of a Surfing Life in Nova Scotia and Peggy's Cove: The Amazing History of a Coastal Village.