No Other Country by Al Purdy
First edition
Signed and inscribed by Purdy
Al Purdy loved this country and travelled it extensively. Purdy explored his own heritage and that of Canada in his poetry. Here the same yard-spinning tone is used to explore the country and its people in prose.
No Other Country by Al Purdy
7th paperback printing
Signed and inscribed by Purdy, to Bruce Whitman
Condition: Good plus, edge and corner wear, spine crease, light soiling on white covers.
Publishing Info: Mcclelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1989
ISBN: n/a
Al Purdy loved this country and travelled it extensively, by freight train, by airplane, driving a camper and on foot. His paternal line traces back to two brothers who were United Empire Loyalists and left Ulster County in New York in the 1830s to settle in the Belleville, Ontario area. Purdy explored his own heritage and that of Canada in his poetry. Here the same yard-spinning tone is used to explore the country and its people in prose. In other parts of the world, Purdy had felt like a stranger. But wherever he went in Canada, including Frobisher Bay on Baffin Island where the book begins, he always felt at home. No Other Country takes a "long and leisurely gander at Canada and the people who make it what it is..."
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