Beauty tips from Moose Jaw

travels in search of Canada

342 pages

English language

Published March 8, 2004 by Alfred A. Knopf Canada.

ISBN:
9780676976434

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4 stars (1 review)

6 editions

Misanthropic travel brochure of Canada

4 stars

I have a Canadian friend who is very desperate for me to like Will Ferguson, this is the third book of his that he's lent me. The first one irritated me quickly and I forgot about it and the second. This one is a set of travel essays from different provinces of Canada. They are sorted from west to east, and are almost-deliberately chronologically out of order.

However they're a funny and occasionally touching, always caustic, sometimes fondly (sometimes not) look at different cultures and micro-cultures in Canada, from the point of view of someone who isn't actually from Toronto but may as well be "stock white North American" looking at the least-American bits.

Subjects

  • Ferguson, Will -- Travel -- Canada.
  • National characteristics, Canadian.
  • Canada -- Description and travel.
  • Canada -- Social life and customs -- 1945-