num_pages: 256
description: Canadians have been confronted by this riddle since the first hunters appeared on the frozen northern tundra via the Bering land bridge. The Aboriginal peoples learned to survive by charting the land and sea with stories songs and stones. The Europeans who followed them employed modern tools to draw their own lines using maps as agents of exploration and conquest. Even today we try and win ownership over nature from our foothold in outer space using satellite images to photograph and chart the Earths surface. Where Is Here? Canadas Maps and the Stories They Tell is about how from the earliest days we have used maps to shape our country and how in turn maps have shaped us. And it is about how maps are embedded with our memories perceptions and stories; as author Margaret Atwood has written maps contain the ground that contains them. Where Is Here? features an eclectic cast of Inuit elders hobos a self-destructive Oblate missionary gold-seeking seducers a doctor turned mapmaker a modern-day marketing guru artists who turn maps inside out orienteering athletes a quirky road map collector and a millionaire eccentric and Nazi sympathizer.
language: English
title: Where Is Here : Canada's Maps and the Stories They Tell
publisher: Penguin Canada