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The road to there : mapmakers and their stories
With reproductions of some of the most important maps in history, presents many of the unexpected stories of history's great mapmakers and their charts, quilts, songlines, and parchment that guided men and women through the mysterious frontiers of the world.
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A Quick Eloquence
William Trevor, the Anglo-Irish master of the short fiction genre, has called the literary form he writes so well `the art of the glimpse.' Over the years, from Stephen Leacock on, Canadians have become notably proficient at writing glimpses-as-fiction. Perhaps it's a matter of climate — of having to poke your head out of the warmth and form a quick impression of what you see, stating your vision with all the quick eloquence you can muster, and then dodging back inside.
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You can't read this : forbidden books, lost writing, mistranslations & codes
This volume explores the development of alphabets, the decoding of ancient languages, and censorship in Ancient Rome and modern America.
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BOOK EXCERPT ROBERTSON DAVIES: A PORTRAIT IN MOSAIC
Author and Globe and Mail arts writer Val Ross was diagnosed with brain cancer in October, 2007. During the following four months, she fought against the disease with every medical weapon at hand and with her own wry gallantry. She did so...
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Becoming Canada's Dutch masters capital
Reached in Milwaukee, [Alfred Bader] says that Rembrandt is still his favourite painter. But close behind is [Jan Lievens], a man until recently described as a minor Dutch painter \"in Rembrandt's shadow,\" now coming into his own as a master in his own right. Bader's persistent championing of Lievens is one reason why in London a year ago Lievens's
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VISUAL ART
Something very interesting is happening at Queen's University's Agnes Ether ington Art Gallery in Kingston. The fact that the gallery last fall acquired a second Rembrandt, Head of a Man with a Turban, is only part of it.
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We want people to have their own voices
Forty-thousand dollars in prizes, many expressions of warm fuzzy feelings for a city most Canadians profess to hate and an impromptu singing of O Canada marked the second annual Mayor's Arts Awards lunch in Toronto...
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