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The lively immediacy of Abley’s journals combined with the measured wisdom of his mature, contemporary voice provides rich insight, bringing vibrant witness and historical perspective to this beautifully written portrait of a region during a time of irrevocable change.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487012915","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Anansi Audio","MetaKeywords":"adventure stories;the 70s;backpacking;alternative tourism;subculture;middle east;narrative non fiction;nostalgia;iranian revolution;the age of creativity emily urquhart;canadian literature;history;social science;geography","NumberOfPages":"296","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003eOpen this book and you'll get wafts of sandalwood and spices, of sun-baked roads and thumb-worn pages, and a touch of hippie sweat. Mark Abley's \u003cem \u003eStrange Bewildering Time\u003c\/em\u003e is a gauge of how people have shaped the world and how the world shaped a wide-eyed poet. There's nostalgia, humour, and melancholy throughout this story, warm and honestly told. And as much as it is a look at how a young man changed, how relationships and experience can sometimes make the past seem foreign, I felt the older man very much alive in this — not so much a tale of someone looking back at a former self but of someone eloquently showing that if we keep our desire to search and express, the best parts of youth don't die.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Colin McAdam, author of A Beautiful Truth and Black Dove","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the best kind of travel memoir — a rethinking and deepening of a journey made years ago. The older and wiser Mark Abley meets himself as a young man and the result is an account of the world, then and now, that is eloquent, rueful, and profound.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Elizabeth Hay, author of All Things Consoled: A Daughter’s Memoir","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003eA wonderful book about travel during a time on the threshold of change in the world. \u003cem\u003eStrange Bewildering Time\u003c\/em\u003e lives up to its name and Mark Abley writes of his travels from Istanbul to Kathmandu, and everywhere in between, with eloquent detail, wit, and wisdom.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"David Farley, author of An Irreverent Curiosity","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003eThis delightful blend of travelogue and memoir swept me away to a foreign land: the late seventies. Youthful and privileged, Abley and his travel companion understand little of the decolonizing world and people they meet. But with his signature wit, critical candour, and empathy, Abley’s older self offers context and the wisdom of hindsight. An absorbing portrait of regions in rapid transformation and a couple of young outsiders bemused by hospitality, sights and sounds they encounter on their trip of a lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Shauna Singh Baldwin, author of What the Body Remembers and The Tiger Claw","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eAppeals to an interest in the 1970s counterculture in South Asia, for example the Netflix drama series The Serpent, which is based on the true story of serial killer and fraudster Charles Sobhraj, who preyed on Western tourists travelling the hippie trail during the 1970s.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOffers a portrait of South Asian culture and society before the Iranian Revolution, before the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppeals to Boomer nostalgia for lost youth and simpler times.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreates a vicarious travel experience for the reader in the time of COVID-19.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eAppeals to an interest in the 1970s counterculture in South Asia, for example the Netflix drama series The Serpent, which is based on the true story of serial killer and fraudster Charles Sobhraj, who preyed on Western tourists travelling the hippie trail during the 1970s.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOffers a portrait of South Asian culture and society before the Iranian Revolution, before the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppeals to Boomer nostalgia for lost youth and simpler times.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreates a vicarious travel experience for the reader in the time of COVID-19.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“Readers will marvel at this nostalgic travelogue.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Providing an intimate glimpse of far-flung regions during times of change, just before some regions became inaccessible to Westerners … An engrossing travelogue with introductions to the Middle East and Central Asia, \u003cem \u003eStrange Bewildering Time\u003c\/em\u003e is nostalgic and thoughtful—a paean and a lament for a time long gone.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eForeword\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Foreword","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“A book often worthy of comparison with such enduring classics of travel literature as Patrick Leigh Fermor’s \u003cem \u003eBetween The Woods And The Water \u003c\/em\u003eand Bruce Chatwin’s \u003cem \u003eIn Patagonia\u003c\/em\u003e.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMontreal Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Montreal Gazette","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“A riveting read … vivid and thoughtful.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“Abley masterfully navigates his acknowledgement of his innocent self as a foundation for the book while introducing witty and philosophical remarks that allow the reader to reevaluate the authority of the narrative lens. [\u003cem\u003eStrange Bewildering Time\u003c\/em\u003e]\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eis a remarkable time capsule of culture and circumstance wrapped up in an enticing story.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMcGill Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"McGill Tribune","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“Abley’s story is simultaneously immediate and retrospective. The journals he kept during his travels offer scenes of vivid detail, while the distance traveled in time allows him to see ironies his 22-year-old self could not have fathomed. The past was a strange, bewildering time—but time itself is strange and bewildering … The blessing of this book is that Mr. Abley’s curiosity and compassion were not lost along the way.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Wall Street Journal","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“A fascinating chronicle … \u003cem\u003eStrange Bewildering Time: Istanbul to Kathmandu in the Last Year of the Hippie Trail\u003c\/em\u003e charts the dissipation of hopes at the end of an era.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“Gorgeous and lyrical … \u003cem \u003eStrange Bewildering Time\u003c\/em\u003e is … a meditation on the nature of memory, time and self-knowledge, as well as an account of a region on the brink of turmoil … There is poetry on every page.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMontreal Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Montreal Review of Books","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong \u003eA poet and journalist looks back on a remarkable journey from Turkey to Nepal in 1978, when the region was on the brink of massive transformation.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ProductFormDescription":"Lossless Format Audio, WAV","PublicationDate":"2023-02-07","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong \u003eA poet and journalist looks back on a remarkable journey from Turkey to Nepal in 1978, when the region was on the brink of massive transformation.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","Subtitle":"Istanbul to Kathmandu in the Last Year of the Hippie Trail","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Strange Bewildering Time
A poet and journalist looks back on a remarkable journey from Turkey to Nepal in 1978, when the region was on the brink of massive transformation.
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Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing discusses personal freedom and responsibility in a world prone inherited structures of unquestioned belief.
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Give your child the tools and the confidence to master math with John Mighton's revolutionary JUMP at Home Math workbook for Grade 5.
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Winter
Adam Gopnik's 2011 CBC Massey Lectures is at once an enchanting homage to a season and a captivating journey through the modern imagination.
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This Accident of Being Lost
A knife-sharp collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.
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The Riveter
For readers of The English Patient and All the Light We Cannot See comes a cross-cultural love story set against the dramatic backdrop of the Allied invasion of Europe in WWII.
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ages 9
to 12
/ grades 4
to 6
Wildful
Reminiscent of The Secret Garden, this breathtaking graphic novel explores how we can find magic in the wilderness — and in ourselves.
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Some of the stories are like fables, others like poetry, and all are a sheer joy to read. 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An inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities by a writer of Māori and Coast Salish descent.
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Jillian has a swooping, gorgeous pen line-expressive, vibrant and precise all at once...evocative and wondrous...It complements Mariko's fine ear for dialogue and the incidentals and events of adolescent life. Skim is an unusually strong graphic novel-rich in visuals and observations, and rewarding of repeated readings.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_13":"\u003cp\u003e“[Skim uses] high school as a fertile setting for pungent commentary on racial, cultural, and sexual issues...The narrative, mainly in diary form, feels accurate and realistic, drenched in a sense of confusion and nihilism, and the art, influenced by Craig Thompson's Blankets (2003), reflects the spare, gloomy emotional landscape in which Skim exists. 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Jillian Tamaki has an especially expressive, loose style that lends itself beautifully to this slightly morose tale.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBust\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_19_Src":"Bust","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Metro","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“...avoids all the cliches of a coming-of-age story...Original in every which way.” — \u003cstrong\u003eValerie D'Orazio, \u003cem\u003eFriends of Lulu\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_20":"\u003cp\u003e“This stunning coming-of-age novel will draw in not only GN buffs, who will appreciate the creative design and dramatic use of both illustration and narration, but also realistic-fiction fans who may not normally gravitate to the format but will find this a sympathetic standout.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBulletin of the Center for Children's Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_20_Src":"Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books","OtherText_Review_21":"\u003cp\u003e“Writer Mariko Tamaki and artist Jillian Tamaki stunningly entwine their acute dialogues and visual riches in brush, soft pencil and grey tones, illuminating this adolescent romance in all its conflicted depths. 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Some pages flaunt over 10 similarly sized and shaped panels while others reveal only one (often silent) borderless image. The overall effect reveals impressive artwork and many powerful scenes...Skim is a unique piece, one not to be missed. Highly Recommended. [Skim uses] high school as a fertile setting for pungent commentary on racial, cultural, and sexual issues...The narrative, mainly in diary form, feels accurate and realistic, drenched in a sense of confusion and nihilism, and the art, influenced by Craig Thompson's Blankets (2003), reflects the spare, gloomy emotional landscape in which Skim exists. This story will appeal to many female comics fans...” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCM Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"CM Magazine","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“...[Skim is a] stunningly emotional graphic novel...an artful jumble that is as true-to-life as it is diffuse...unfussy and immediate...The delicately lined art alternately expands and contradicts the prose to achieve layers of meaning, tone and irony...With honesty and compassion, this innovative narrative communicates a life just beginning, open and full of possibility.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eHorn Book\u003c\/em\u003e, STARRED REVIEW\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Horn Book, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“...[Skim] manages to avoid the usual cliches...The b\/w cirt is fluid and curvy and looks like it came straight out of a sketchbook. The little details are wonderful...Highly recommended for high school graphic novel colelctions, especially those catering to girls.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eKliatt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Kliatt","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“...rendered delicately...Mariko's writing is assured...Skim's self-searching entries are wrenched off or lit up by the next image...Skim comes into its own, building a teenage girl mood that's struggling observant and shyly heartfelt by turns.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eVue Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Vue Weekly","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003e“[Skim] is a convincing chronicle of a teenage outsider who has enough sense to want to stay outside...All in all, Skim offers a startlingly clear and painful view into adolescence for those of us who possess it only as a distant memory. It's a story that deepens with successive rereadings. But what will teenagers think? Maybe that they've found a bracingly honest story by a writer who seems to remember exactly what it was like to be 16 and in love for the first time.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_9":"\u003cp\u003e“Skim comes out on top...connects in every way...This graphic novel is a winner...a unique creation...Scenes are often hilarious and black-humoured as well as serious...Mariko Tamaki's prose captures an authentic adolescent voice that's dramatic, self-obsessed, funny, earnest, and sometimes glib...Skim is an unforgettable character in the tradition of Holden Caulfield-a clear social commentator on adult and adolescent behaviour whose ironic observations on social hypocrisy ring sharp and true...Illustrator Jillian Tamaki's fine draughtsmanship gives Skim a classic elegance that's missing in many other graphic novels...a powerful sense of mystical eeriness that deepens and enhances the story. 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Her mother was peaceful. She was calm. The sight filled Alice with the kind of green hope she found at the bottom of rock pools at low tide but never managed to cup in her hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe more time she spent with her mother in the garden, the more deeply Alice understood — from the tilt of Agnes’s wrist when she inspected a new bud, to the light that reached her eyes when she lifted her chin, and the thin rings of dirt that encircled her fingers as she coaxed new fern fronds from the soil — the truest parts of her mother bloomed among her plants. Especially when she talked to the flowers. Her eyes glazed over and she mumbled in a secret language, a word here, a phrase there as she snapped flowers off their stems and tucked them into her pockets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSorrowful remembrance,\u003c\/em\u003e she’d say as she plucked a bindweed flower from its vine. \u003cem\u003eLove, returned.\u003c\/em\u003e The citrusy scent of lemon myrtle would fill the air as she tore it from a branch. \u003cem\u003ePleasures of memory.\u003c\/em\u003e Her mother pocketed a scarlet palm of kangaroo paw.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQuestions scratched at the back of Alice’s throat. Why did her mother’s words only flow when she was telling stories about other places and other worlds? What about their world, right in front of them? Where did she go when her eyes were far away? Why couldn’t Alice go with her?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy her seventh birthday, Alice’s body was heavy from the burden of unanswered questions. They filled her chest. Why did her mother talk to the native flowers in such cryptic ways? How could her father be two different people? What curse did Alice’s first tears save her mother from? Although they weighed on her mind, Alice’s questions remained stuck, lodged in her windpipe as painfully as if she’d swallowed a seedpod. Moments of opportunity came on good days in the garden, when the light fell just so, yet Alice said nothing. In silence, she followed her mother as her pockets filled with flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf Agnes ever noticed Alice’s silence, she never said anything to break it. It was understood time spent in the garden was quiet time. \u003cem\u003eLike a library,\u003c\/em\u003e her mother once mused as she glided through her maidenhair ferns. Though Alice hadn’t ever been to a library — to see more books in one place than she could imagine, or hear the whispers of collective pages turning — she felt she almost had, through her mother’s stories. From Agnes’s description, Alice imagined a library must be a quiet garden of books, where stories grew like flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlice hadn’t been anywhere else beyond their property either. Her life was confined to its boundaries: from her mother’s garden to the where the cane fields started, to the bay where the sea curled close by. She was forbidden to venture further than those lines, and especially the one that separated their driveway from the lane that led into town. \u003cem\u003eIt’s no place for a girl,\u003c\/em\u003e her father would say, slamming his fist on the dinner table, making the plates and cutlery jump, whenever Alice’s mother suggested sending her to school. \u003cem\u003eShe’s safer here,\u003c\/em\u003e he’d growl, putting an end to the conversation. 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The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
An enchanting and captivating novel about how our untold stories haunt us — and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.
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The Outside Circle
A graphic novel about two brothers surrounded by poverty and gang violence trying to overcome centuries of historic trauma.
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Ambitious and talented with a work ethic to match, Freeland has had an impressive run since she entered politics in 2013: spearheading major trade negotiations, expertly navigating relations with an erratic US president, speaking out about human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia, and standing up to Vladimir Putin’s aggressions in Ukraine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith her impeccable research, seasoned perspective, and accessible style, Tsalikis brings Freeland’s story to life. The defining moments and experiences that shaped Freeland’s particular worldview illuminate the answers to larger social questions: how to live a good, useful life; how to hold fast to guiding principles; how to break through glass ceilings. This is a unique behind-the-curtains look at Canadian politics through the story of a trailblazing woman.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Chrystia
The intriguing, in-depth story of the most powerful woman in Canadian politics.
