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Following the Blue Road on the Steps of Kenneth White in Quebec : Episode 8

Kenneth White – The Blue Road – 1990 – Mainstream Publishing

A colder spell had set in. It had been a summery Autumn, but now suddenly there was a sharp Winter’s bite in the air.

‘November chill blaws lood wi’ angry sugh…’

Funny how a line of Robert Burns should […]

January 27th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Travelling Quebec | Leave a comment

Following the Blue Road on the Steps of Kenneth White in Quebec : Episode 7

Kenneth White The Wanderer and the Charts Polygon Books 2004

I’ve always delighted in the reading of old geographers and explorers.You feel in their texts the first tentative steps, see the earliest visions, register the initial astonishment at the […]

January 18th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Travelling Quebec | Leave a comment

Following the Blue Road on the Steps of Kenneth White in Quebec : Episode 6

Kenneth White The Blue Road 1990 Mainstream Publishing

After the road, the trees… After the trees, unknown territory… After that, nothing at all.

(Louis Ferdinand Celine quoted by Kenneth White in The Blue Road)

Hi everybody! I’m very happy to be […]

December 20th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Travelling Quebec | Leave a comment

Biggest Creature on Earth, the Blue Whale Swims Along Our Blue Road Trip In Quebec

Hi Mairiuna 🙂 I have “giant” news for you today and I’m all excited to tell you about it!

You mentioned in your recent article Following the Blue Road on the Steps of Kenneth White in Quebec: Episode 5 , that it was difficult to identify the whale species that came breathing at the […]

December 5th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Travelling Quebec | Leave a comment

Following the Blue Road on the Steps of Kenneth White in Quebec: Episode 5

Kenneth White – The Blue Road -1990 – Mainstream Publishing

Herman Melville came North to Canada on his honeymoon trip, when he was twenty-nine years old. In Montreal, he met Captain Coffin, about to leave on a whaling expedition up the norh Coast to Labrador. Maybe that […]

November 4th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Travelling Quebec | Leave a comment
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