Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw de Ferguson, Will - 2004

US: Vintage Canada, 2004. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. The follow-up to the back-to-back successes of How to Be a Canadian (over 1 10,000 copies sold) and Happiness™ (Winner of the Leacock Medal for H umour). Will Ferguson spent a three-year period criss-crossing Canada and back agai n. In a helicopter above the barrenlands of the sub-Arctic, in a canoe with his four-year-old son, aboard seaplanes and along the Underground Railroad , Will?fs travels have taken him from Cape Spear on the coast of Newfoundla nd to the sun-dappled streets of Olde Victoria. In his last book, Will told us how to be Canadian; now in this book, he wil l tell us what it means to be Canadian. Will?fs journey takes him to far-fl ung isolated communities as well as deep into Canada?fs urban centres. From the ?gmillion-acre farm?h that is P.E.I. to the tobacco belt of southern O ntario, from the architectural mess that is Montreal to the glorious jumble that is St. John?fs, from a renegade republic in northwestern New Brunswic k to a tundra buggy in the polar bear migration paths of Hudson Bay, Will e xplodes the myths of who we are. Funny, poignant and insightful, Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw is a provocative tribute to our quirky and fascinating country.