Long Roads, Big Skies
When I was writing Half-Light: Westbound on a Hot Planet, my editor suggested that it was a travel book. At first I didn't see this, thinking of the book more as a series of somewhat dysthymic embroideries on the idea of mortality and finitude. But now I do see it. In Half-Light, I was always going somewhere, paying attention to places, especially when they were new to me. Here are some of the best (in my opinion) Canadian books about going somewhere and paying careful attention: to where you are, to where you're bound, and to what happens on the journey.
Lands of Lost Borders
Out of Bounds on the Silk Road
Whitemud Walking
Field Notes on Listening
A Geography of Blood
Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape
Perfection Of The Morning
Wild Stone Heart
On Foot to Canterbury
A Son’s Pilgrimage
Borders, Human Itineraries, and All Our Relation
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Jacob's Wound
A Search for the Spirit of Wildness
The Road Is How
Three Days A Foot Through Nature, Eros, And Soul, The
Surrender
The Call of the American West
The Desire of Every Living Thing
A Memoir
Two Trees Make a Forest
In Search of My Family's Past Among Taiwan's Mountains and Coasts
To the River
Losing My Brother
Ducks
Two Years in the Oil Sands
Making Love with the Land
Lookout
Magnetic North
Sea Voyage to Svalbard
Boundless
Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage
Half-Light
Westbound on a Hot Planet
Saudade
The Possibilities of Place
