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Following the Blue Road on the Steps of Kenneth White in Quebec : Episode 7

Kenneth White The Wanderer and the Charts Polygon Books 2004

I’ve always delighted in the reading of old geographers and explorers.You feel in their texts the first tentative steps, see the earliest visions, register the initial astonishment at the […]

January 18th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Travelling Quebec | Leave a comment

Following the Blue Road on the Steps of Kenneth White in Quebec: Episode 5

Kenneth White – The Blue Road -1990 – Mainstream Publishing

Herman Melville came North to Canada on his honeymoon trip, when he was twenty-nine years old. In Montreal, he met Captain Coffin, about to leave on a whaling expedition up the norh Coast to Labrador. Maybe that […]

November 4th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Travelling Quebec | Leave a comment

Following The Blue Road on the Steps of Kenneth White in Quebec : Episode 4

Kenneth White The Blue Road 1990 Mainstream Publishing

We’ve been lapping up mile after mile in the clear blue light of an October afternoon. There were a few passengers when we left Chicoutimi, but the bus emptied at Tadoussac (…)

Walt Whitman visited the ‘savage Saguenay country’ around 1880. Wrote a little piece […]

October 25th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Travelling Quebec | Leave a comment