The Prodigal Tongue Takes the reader on a world-wide trip like no other - from Singapore to Japan, Oxford to Los Angeles, through the web and even back in time. This book discusses about words that teenagers coin in chat rooms and virtual worlds. It is for those who cherishes the words in use. Full description

Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English

Reference

Mark Abley

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Arrow Books

Spoken Here Proof

Heinemann

<p>The author returns to his roots in the Canadian prairies and offers humorous anecdotes of people and places he visited and vivid observations of the landscape and wildlife of the area</p>

BEYOND FORGET: REDISCOVERING THE PRAIRIES

Travel

Canada

Chatto&Windus

Beyond Forget: Rediscovering the Prairies

Travel Writing

Sierra Club Books

The author returns to his roots in the Canadian prairies and offers humorous anecdotes of people and places he visited and vivid observations of the landscape and wildlife of the area

Beyond Forget

Random House, Inc.

<p>1986, Canadian hardcover edition, Douglas &amp; McIntyre, Vancouver, British Columbia. 260-page non-fiction study written by a Rhodes scholar. The author, in 1985, set out on a voyage of rediscovery, wandering the Canadian prairies, where he grew up as a young boy. He covered the provinces of Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Alberta. He also provides the history and literature of the region as well as info about the landscape and wildlife present. Here are medicine men, missionaries, cowboys, grain farmers, and numerous others. Perhaps the most fascinating part of the book are discussions of how the prairie fires the human imagination with such able writers as Wallace Stegner and T.E. Hulme. He also examines the "famous frauds" such as Grey Owl, T. Lobsang Rampa, Frederick Philip Grove, and Buffalo Child Long Lance. "There are many good qualities to this book--intelligence, readability, excellent style--but its most notable quality is the sense of surprise."</p>

Beyond Forget : rediscovering the prairies

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Douglas & McIntyre / Not Applicable

Conversations with a Dead Man: The Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott

Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd.

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