Boundless by Kathleen Winter
In 2010, bestselling author Kathleen Winter took a journey across the legendary Northwest Passage. From Greenland to Baffin Island and all along this arctic passage, Winter witnesses the new mathematics of the melting North where polar bears mate with grizzlies, creating a new hybrid species;
Absorbing-- Michael Kerr * Daily Telegraph *
A lively interactive account [of] the native culture of Greenland, the human pathos of small mementoes of failed polar expeditions and the larger, legendary Arctic landscape in meltdown. * The Times *
[Winter’s] keen novelist’s eye brings immediacy and vibrancy... An unusual and original take on the travel memoir, by the end there is a real sense of an epic journey having been taken, by both the writer and the reader. * Observer *
Compulsively readable... it both heightens life and plumbs its deepest mysteries, laying bare the beauty of both the world and the soul. * Globe and Mail *
Ultimately, the journey that Kathleen Winter takes on a last-minute whim is transformative. Her precise and vivid prose allows the reader to share in that transformation. For the many readers who admired Annabel and want to get to know its author better, Boundless is a tremendous gift. * Quill & Quire *
A lively interactive account [of] the native culture of Greenland, the human pathos of small mementoes of failed polar expeditions and the larger, legendary Arctic landscape in meltdown. * The Times *
[Winter’s] keen novelist’s eye brings immediacy and vibrancy... An unusual and original take on the travel memoir, by the end there is a real sense of an epic journey having been taken, by both the writer and the reader. * Observer *
Compulsively readable... it both heightens life and plumbs its deepest mysteries, laying bare the beauty of both the world and the soul. * Globe and Mail *
Ultimately, the journey that Kathleen Winter takes on a last-minute whim is transformative. Her precise and vivid prose allows the reader to share in that transformation. For the many readers who admired Annabel and want to get to know its author better, Boundless is a tremendous gift. * Quill & Quire *
Kathleen Winter is the author of the international bestseller, Annabel, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Giller Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Boundless has already been shortlisted for the prestigious Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize - the richest non-fiction prize in Canada. A long-time resident of St John's, Newfoundland, she now lives in Montreal.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099587194 |
| ISBN 10 | 009958719X |
| Title | Boundless |
| Author | Kathleen Winter |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2016-02-04 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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