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Type de document : Livres Catégorie 115 : CANADA Langue : ENTitre du livre : Insight Guides CANADA
Auteurs : Hans Hoefer Joe Viesti Editeur : Hilary Cunningham APA PUBLICATIONS Année : 01/01/1989
ISBN : Code-barre :
Format du livre : 22 x 15,5 cm Poids : Tarif postal :
Prix neuf : 0.00
Description du livre : Guide anglophone
The book you now hold in your hands has, like most books, an unusual history-a his-tory that seems to have been the confluence of circumstances and coïncidence.
When Apa Executive Editor Adam Liptak hap-pened to mention to a pub-lishing colleague that he was looking for someone to edit a guide to Canada, the colleague happened to re-spond that he had a wife who was flot only Canadian
but also a fledgling writer Ho~rer
intensely interested in Canadian cul-ture. ln light of this information. Liptak contacted Hilary Cunningham and suggested that she submit a pro-posaI for the lnsight Guide: Canada. Liptak, a law student at Yale and a published writer himself, became instrumental in bath launching the project and seeing it through to the end. His crack record in journalism
includes by-lines in a wide range of publica-tions -The New York Times and Business Week among them.
Apa, a Singapore-based publishing hou se whose innovative approach to creating travel chronicles has been honored through-out the world since the company was estab-lished in 1970, had long been interested in working on a guide to Canada. Apa intro-duced its first American title, Hawaii, in 1980 and the success of the book convinced its founder-publisher Hans Hoefer that North American readers were ready for more lnsight Guides. A graduate of printing, book production, design and photography studies in Krefeld, West Germany, he is a disciple of the Bauhaus tradition of graphic arts.
Hilary Cunningham traveled to the United States to begin a Ph.D. in urban and political anthropology in New York City; amid the bustle of one of America's more "American" metropolises, her thoughts had often turned to Canada, ilS culture, ils people, and ils profound differences from the United States. The book offered a wel-
corne opportunity to articulate some of her ideas about her native land.
A proposaI was soon submitted and al-
most as quickly accepted-the project be-gan officially. A native of Toronto and a gradu-ate of "the Harvard of the North," the University of Toronto, Cunningham had developed a network offellow-Canadian writ-ers who were eager to contribute their talents to the book. Cunningham
currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut, and has just com-pleted the first year of her Ph.D. studies at Yale University.
The work that graces the pages of
, this lnsight Guide is the coordi-
nated effort of several photogra-phers and a dozen writers. While the images of many photographers
captuJe the diversity of the Cana-
dian landscape, Joe Viesti is the main con-tributor to the guide. Viesti, who is based in New York City, has combined his profes-sion, photography, with his love of travel and his fascination with other cultures. Forming a team with his wife, Diane Hall, the couple traveled across Canada from one
coast to the other- Viesti taking pictures
and Hall writing her impressions of the Maritimes. Viesti' s work has previously been represented in the lnsight Guides to Florida, Southern Califomia, the American Southeast, New England, the Rockies, India, Italy, Ireland and Texas. He has shot for the National Geographic Society and his work has appeared in publications su ch as Geo, Stelïl and Pacific. For the past Dîne years Viesti has specialized in photographing celebrations around the world; in 1984 his remarkable collection was used for the UNICEFEngagementCalendar. Thecollec-tion has silice been exhibited at over 40 museums and galleries throughout North America.
Hall, on the other hand, was the main contributor to the East section in this book.
Sommaire du livre :
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part One CENTRAL 110-175
HISTORY AND PEOPLE Ontario: The Heart of Canada 113
- by The Editor un1ess otherwise by-1ined - by Philip Street
Canada 15 Toronto the Good 140
- by Mark Kingwe1l
Canada: A Land in the Making 21
Québec 155
The Europeans 27 - by Matthew Parfitt
Canada in the 17th Century 33 EAST 176-221
Roughing it in the Bush: New Brunswick 180
The Pioneers 37 - by Diane Hall.
Canada Under British Rule 45 Nova Scotia 191
- by Dia_S Hall
Confederation Canada from
Sea to Sea 51 Newfoundland 207
-- by John Lucas
French and English in Canada 60
- by Charles Foran Prince Edward Island 215
- by Diane Hall
Emergence of a Nation: Canada in
the 20th Century 71 WEST 222-263
Searching for a Cana di an Identity 84 British Columbia 227
- by John Loonam
The Inuit 91
- by Pat Keyes Alberta 241
- by David Dunbar
art Two Saskatchewan 249
-- by David Dunbar
PLACES
Manitoba 257
Places 107 - by David Dunbar
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Maps --
NORTH 264-279
Canada 108-109
Yukon 269 Ontario 114
- by Pat Keyes Central Ontario 121
Québec 155
Northwest Territories 275 New Brunswick 182
- by Pat Keyes Nova Scotia and Prince Edward
Island 192
-Newfound1and 208
Part Three British Columbia 227
Alberta 241
TRA VEL TIPS 281-365 Saskatchewan 249
- by Tony Byrne Manitoba 257
Yukon 270
How to Use Trave1 Tips 282 Northwest Territories 276
Getting There 282
Getting Acquainted 283
National Media 286
Foreign Supplement 286
Directory 292
ln General 292
Getting Around 292
Alberta 293
British Columbia 300
Manitoba 307
New Brunswick 312
Newfound1and 316
Nova Scotia 319
Northwest Territories 324
Ontario 327
Prince Edward Island 346
Québec 349 Saskatchewan 359
Yukon 363
Art/Photo Credits 366
Index 368
