num_pages: 154
description: The Only Snow in Havana is a personal reflection about Canadian identity, a poetic history about snow and fur, and a travel book about origins. Mexico and New York provide the setting for an exploration of Canada's early history and the narrator's own past. Stories about the fur trade weave together with memories of feeling trapped, in a book which is as much about the play of language as it is about love and roots.The book blends autobiography, biography and history to become a new form of arctic literature: the search for a north-south passage, the discovery of "an indirect route along yellow silk, home."
language: English
title: The Only Snow in Havana
titlecomplete: The Only Snow in Havana
genres: Nonfiction, Biography
ratings_count: 30
publisher: Cormorant Books