This Place a Stranger: Canadian Women Travelling Alone - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1927575737 ISBN 13 : 9781927575734

Editeur : Caitlin Press, 2015

Synopsis

Sometimes tragic, sometimes uproariously funny, THIS PLACE A STRANGER is a diverse collection of Canadian women writing about their experiences of travelling alone. From the deceptiveness of the everyday to the extremes of geography, weather and violence, these stories go beyond the usual tales of intrepid male explorers and reveal the varied and unique circumstances in which women travellers find themselves when ""going solo."" For one woman, the allure of a multiday hike on a ""congenial trail"" becomes as shrouded as the soggy temperate rainforest she was so unprepared for. After thirty-seven years of marriage, another woman prepares for her return trip to Africa: vaccination boosters, nausea pills and lots and lots of condoms. A seventeen-hour journey by car through the Great Lakes region of Ontario leads another to dreamlike reflections on the travels of her Anishinaabe grandmothers and the ever-present ""fear, worry"" she experiences today. In another story, a woman poignantly searches for what many seek on solo journeys - inspiration, renewal, discovery - by returning to Paris only a few years after the painful dissolution of her marriage. But the grey February, a body in pain and the funeral of Mavis Gallant offer a different insight. With new work from both emerging and award-winning authors including Yvonne Blomer, Jane Eaton Hamilton, Waaseyaa'sin Christine Sy, Catherine Owen, Karen Lee and more, these stories explore the unexpected blessings and soul-searching that aloneness offers: clarity, liberation, danger, misery, adventure, devastation and joy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Vici Johnstone has worked in theatre, radio, television, film and digital media. She entered the publishing industry in 2006 when she was hired by Harbour Publishing as the production manager, and later the managing editor and general manager. She purchased Caitlin Press in 2008. Since that time, she has published dozens of titles, and in 2015, edited This Place a Stranger: Canadian Women Travelling Alone.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Caitlin Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1927575737
• ISBN 13: 9781927575734
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Éditeur: Johnstone Vici
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible