Stone Country

Good. Good Ships From Canada 344 pages Book Description: With Bowering s BC and Egotists and Autocrats, his bestselling histories of British Columbia and Canada s prime ministers, George Bowering introduced us to his inimitable brand of narrative history As carefully researched as any weighty tome, but written with the vigour and immediacy of the best kind of fiction, his retellings of our nation s past have captivated readers coast to coast Now, with Stone Country, his subject is our nation as a whole Beginning with our beginnings, George Bowering offers theories about the genesis of life in Canada, bringing to life dinosaurs, woolly mammoths, Kennewick Man and the Clovis people He describes the coming of the Europeans: a handful of Norsemen at first, then a centuries-long gap before the arrival of explorers such as Cabot, Cartier and Champlain He takes us from New France to a federal Canada of the 21st century, and shows how the agricultural, religious and economic systems put in plac