Canadian Exploration LiteratureGermaine Warkentin First published by Oxford University Press in 1993, Exploration Literature is a groundbreaking collection of early writing inspired by the opening of a continent.With maps, notes, and thumbnail biographies of these early writers, Exploration Literature is an entry point for both the casual reader and the student of Canadian literature into the beginnings of a literate response to the awe and wonder inspired by an unfolding geography and the literary fundamentals of new nationhood. |
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Henry Kelsey carries the Governors pipe to | 66 |
The Great NorthWest in the Eighteenth Century | 97 |
Alexander Mackenzie from Canada by land | 350 |
Captain George Vancouver carries out an | 397 |
Simon Fraser descends a perilous river | 418 |
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Page 33 - The antechapel where the statue stood Of Newton with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.
Page 32 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.