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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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The ROM has a problem: moths, which can ravage an entire collection
TORONTO (CP) - In The Silence of the Lambs, a moth's cocoon is discovered in the throat of a murder victim. It's a death's head sphinx moth. This clue that a horrific destroyer is on the rampage is the first tap on the film's resonating gong of dread - something like what struck Royal Ontario Museum staff six weeks ago after one conservationist noticed a moth fluttering above the head of a stuffed lion in the museum's African savannah diorama. It's costly to treat pest infestations, it endangers fragile artifacts to be removed and then reinstated, and there are dangers of fumigation to museum staff and visitors. That's why it's best to invest in the best and most effective pest early-warning systems - sticky traps to capture crawling pests, and pheromone taps to lure egg-laying female pests. Still, the best warning system is probably an alert human with an eye for a flutter of menace.
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Book-of-the-Month Club goes south
U.S. advertising executive who wandered into the book business by He added that he hopes the U.S. club will not start shipping to its Canadian members the U.S. editions of books published separately
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Mistake knocks books out of G G contention
The shortlist won't be announced until Monday but publishers have already been informed so that they can get copies of their books ready. Although several M and S books are being shortlisted by juries, [Gibson] learned that the five had been set aside when he was chatting recently with Gordon Platt, literary officer at the Canada Council, which adminsters the G-Gs. Gibson mentioned that he had high hopes for his titles. Platt told him they were next year's books. Gibson was shocked.
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Burnard's House is in order A Good House
[Bonnie Burnard] stands in the kitchen of her 1950s ranch-style house in Burnard sees it, lies are OK when people mean well. This is the closest Burnard gets to mushiness. \"I hate Hallmark
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Mystery writer recalls Cockney childhood
TORONTO (CP) - On the back of Eric Wright's memoir of his Cockney boyhood, Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man, there's a photo of one of his large family's proudest moments: the wedding of his second oldest sister May, in 1938. So all's right with Wright. \"It would have been easy to try to make the incidents funny or terribly sad,\" he says. His book tells of hardscrabble years in East London tenements where a bath meant carrying pails once a week from the boiler on the ground floor to the family flat where Mum and Dad presided over 10 kids, Eric being the ninth. Instead of bathos or black humour, however, Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man (Key Porter) strikes a note of wry bemusement. And Wright is recaptures the point of view of the curious, cheeky, fearful Cockney kid he once was, rather than the soft-spoken, mid-Atlantic-accented, writer and professor of English he became after he emigrated to Canada in 1951.
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Gilmour's novel largely about lust Lost Between Houses
[David Gilmour] cannot help himself. His fourth and latest novel, Lost Between Houses (Random House), is a funny, poetic return to the theme he always writes about: sexual obsession. This time, he fictionalizes the first love of his teenaged life back in the 1960s. Most characters are real. Some names aren't even changed. Psycho and Vernon Mould, teachers at Upper Canada College when Gilmour attended the private school in the '60s, make brief appearances as authority figures who make Gilmour's fictional protagonist, Simon, as unhappy as they made the author. \"I'll tell you frankly, I like this book. One reviewer compared Lost Between Houses to Catcher in the Rye, and said, 'No, this one is better,' \" he says with a grin. \"Frankly, I am relieved when they bring up Salinger. I thought someone would say, 'Mr. Gilmour has been reading too much Chekhov.' \"
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