No Other Country
by Al Purdy
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
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About This Item
Mcclelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1977. First edition. Condition: Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. Dust jacket has light edge wear and light bumping at corners, Very light soiling on covers.
Signed and inscribed by Purdy, to Bruce Whitman.
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..."
Signed and inscribed by Purdy, to Bruce Whitman.
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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- Bookseller
- Shop-books.ca (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 202000346
- Title
- No Other Country
- Author
- Al Purdy
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Mcclelland & Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1977
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed Books; Travel Literature; First Editions; Poetry; Non-Fiction;
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