Now available in paperback, bestselling author Kathleen Winter’s arctic travel memoir Boundless, finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the RBC Taylor Prize.
In 2010, bestselling author Kathleen Winter took a journey across the storied Northwest Passage, among marine scientists, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and curious passengers. From Greenland to Baffin Island and all along the passage, Winter bears witness to the new math of the melting North — where polar bears mate with grizzlies, creating a new hybrid species; where the earth is on the cusp of yielding so much buried treasure that five nations stand poised to claim sovereignty of the land; and where the local Inuit population struggles to navigate the tension between taking part in the new global economy and defending their traditional way of life. And she guides us through her own personal odyssey, emigrating from England to Canada as a child and discovering both what was lost and what was gained as a result of that journey.
A finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the RBC Taylor Prize, Kathleen Winter’s Boundless is a haunting and powerful story, and an homage to the ever-evolving and magnetic power of the North.
Now available in paperback, bestselling author Kathleen Winter’s arctic travel memoir Boundless, finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the RBC Taylor Prize.
In 2010, bestselling author Kathleen Winter took a journey across the storied Northwest Passage, among marine scientists, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and curious passengers. From Greenland to Baffin Island and all along the passage, Winter bears witness to the new math of the melting North — where polar bears mate with grizzlies, creating a new hybrid species; where the earth is on the cusp of yielding so much buried treasure that five nations stand poised to claim sovereignty of the land; and where the local Inuit population struggles to navigate the tension between taking part in the new global economy and defending their traditional way of life. And she guides us through her own personal odyssey, emigrating from England to Canada as a child and discovering both what was lost and what was gained as a result of that journey.
A finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the RBC Taylor Prize, Kathleen Winter’s Boundless is a haunting and powerful story, and an homage to the ever-evolving and magnetic power of the North.
| Published By | House of Anansi Press Inc — Aug 29, 2014 |
| Specifications | 296 pages | 5.5 in x 8.5 in |
| Keywords | Polar Regions; Literary; Northwest Passage; Greenland; Nunavut; Baffin Island; contemporary; Stan Rogers; women writers; Travel; Memoir; Non-Fiction; Nathan Rogers; England; Canada; Hilary Weston Prize; Writers Trust Prize; Weston Prize; Journey; RBC Taylor Prize; Nature; Canadian North; Inuit; Icebergs; Voyage; Reflections; Geography; cruise; Connection; |
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KATHLEEN WINTER is the author of the international bestseller, Annabel, which was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Orange Prize for Fiction, and CBC’s Canada Reads. Her first collection of stories, boys, won both the Winterset Award and the Metcalf–Rooke Award. A long-time resident of St. John’s, Newfoundland, she now lives in Montreal. |
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KATHLEEN WINTER is the author of the international bestseller, Annabel, which was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Orange Prize for Fiction, and CBC’s Canada Reads. Her first collection of stories, boys, won both the Winterset Award and the Metcalf–Rooke Award. A long-time resident of St. John’s, Newfoundland, she now lives in Montreal. |
Short-listed, Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, 2014
Short-listed, RBC Taylor Prize, 2015
Short-listed, Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, 2015
“Winter is a confident and engaging stylist, and her treatment of the material is kind and empathetic… For the many readers who admired Annabel and want to get to know its author better, Boundless is a tremendous gift.” —Quill&Quire
“Winter writes lyrically and compellingly.” —Toronto Star
“[Winter’s] transcendent pen, infused with starry wonder, never loses its dreamy, emotional pull.” —Montreal Review of Books
“This talent has no limit…a beautiful, thrilling ride.” —NOW Magazine
“Her keen novelist’s eye brings immediacy and vibrancy to many of the encounters…fresh and enjoyable.” —The Guardian
“[Boundless] is a deep book, meditative and thoughtful, but it is also compulsively readable, driven by an inexorable narrative drive and its keen attention to humanity in all its manifold complexities. It is the sort of book one will finish and return to.” —Globe and Mail
“For the many readers who admired Annabel and want to get to know its author better, Boundless is a tremendous gift.” —Quill & Quire
“Winter’s personal reflections on marriage, family, and past relationships, combined with her poetic observations of the Northern geography and people, breathe new energy into the traditional travelogue format.” —Quill & Quire
“It’s an impressive book, one which belongs alongside the best of writers like Dillard and Terry Tempest Williams, writers who so root their work in themselves and the natural world that the work itself becomes transcendent.” —Globe and Mail
“Graceful, poetic and shimmering prose.” —Toronto Star
“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