Canada's Incredible Coasts

Fülszöveg

Canada, the second largest country
in the world after the Soviet
Union, possesses the longest
coastline, tracing islands and edging the main-
land for some 150,000 miles. This vast sweep of
shore meets the sea in wonderfully varied ways:
on rocky beaches where caribou roam; in quiet
coves rimmed by pastel houses; along cliffs rau-
cous with the cries of 50,000 nesting birds; below
misty evergreen forests rising steeply from the
shore; and along huge shelves of sea ice, frozen
for ten months of the year.
This Special Publication transports you
to disparate sea-swept realms, capturing the sce-
nic beauty and rich human mosaic of Canada's
incredible coasts. You'll visit glacier-scoured,
rock-ribbed Newfoundland, a hard place that
breeds tough people for whom "fishing is soul";
the lighthouse-dotted shores of the Maritimes,
with their pastoral landscapes and thp Bay of
Fundy's phenomenal tides; Quebec's dramatic
Gaspé Peninsula, a setting for bright cliffside vil-... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Canada, the second largest country
in the world after the Soviet
Union, possesses the longest
coastline, tracing islands and edging the main-
land for some 150,000 miles. This vast sweep of
shore meets the sea in wonderfully varied ways:
on rocky beaches where caribou roam; in quiet
coves rimmed by pastel houses; along cliffs rau-
cous with the cries of 50,000 nesting birds; below
misty evergreen forests rising steeply from the
shore; and along huge shelves of sea ice, frozen
for ten months of the year.
This Special Publication transports you
to disparate sea-swept realms, capturing the sce-
nic beauty and rich human mosaic of Canada's
incredible coasts. You'll visit glacier-scoured,
rock-ribbed Newfoundland, a hard place that
breeds tough people for whom "fishing is soul";
the lighthouse-dotted shores of the Maritimes,
with their pastoral landscapes and thp Bay of
Fundy's phenomenal tides; Quebec's dramatic
Gaspé Peninsula, a setting for bright cliffside vil-
lages graced by spired churches and infused with
Gallic charm; the stark, treeless barrens of Baffin
Island in the Arctic, where Inuit hunters stalk
seal and polar bear; and, lastly, the island-
strewn, deeply indented Pacific coast, a magnifi-
cent blend of mountains, forests, and sea.
There are memorable encounters with
wildlife—killer whales, humpbacks, and myriad
seabirds—and lively meetings with people, many
of whom still speak in the accents of France,
Ireland, or Scotland.
The book also provides tantalizing ex-
cursions into history: the site of a Viking colony
inhabited by Norsemen almost a thousand years
ago; a massive French fortress that guarded the
Gulf of St. Lawrence in the 1700s; a trading post
built at the edge of a wilderness in the style
of a 16th-century Norman manor.
Illustrated with six maps and more than
a hundred photographs, Canada's Incredible
Coasts captures the magic of this immense coun-
try's dramatic confrontation —and harmony —
with the sea. Vissza