Canada from Afar

The Daily Telegraph Book of Canadian Obituaries

Edited byDavid Twiston-Davies

Foreword byConrad Black

Published July 1996

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Description

Canada From Afar is the fruit of the remarkable flowering of obituary writing in the London Daily Telegraph during the past ten years. These lively portraits of Canadians are informed, witty, sometimes quirky, occasionally iconoclastic.They include royal courtiers, politicians, businessmen, soldiers, sailors, airmen, scientists, explorers, novelists, artists, and even journalists. Among the prominent Canadians viewed from afar are persons such as Margaret Laurence, Joey Smallwood, K.C. Irving, Raymond Burr and A.J. Casson.

Reviews

"Brief lives and their incidents are the single tiles with which the great mosaic of history is made ... A later generation can try to assemble the grand mosaic. For now, it is enough to enjoy the tiles one by one."

Winnipeg Free Press

"Scruples too, of course, to contemplate the riddles of a life and the puzzles of a personality ... as Twiston Davies shows in his Canada collection, the quality press is on to something here."

The Weekly Telegraph

Contributors

David Twiston-Davies

David Twiston-Davies is the Chief Obituary Writer of The Daily Telegraph, for which he has worked for almost 40 years. Born in Montreal, he was educated at Downside before taking jobs with the East Anglian Daily Times and the Winnipeg Free Press.

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Conrad Black

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Book Details

ePub
July 1996
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200 pp
9781459714373

ePub
July 1996
-
200 pp
9781554881161