Heart of a stranger

Summary: Between 1964 and 1975, Margaret Laurence wrote not only her Manawaka cycle, but also this collection of essays chronicling her travels and revealing how they inspired her fiction. Nora Foster Stovel's new introduction explores how Laurence's experiences in Somalia, Nigeria, Greece, Egypt, England and Scotland influenced and informed her Canadian fiction. Originally published in 1976, is a travelogue chronicling Laurence's geographical journeys to many lands and places. She notes "I saw, somewhat to my surprise, that they are all, in one way or another, travel articles. And by travel, I mean both those voyages which are outer and those voyages which are inner.

Record details

ISBN: 9780770422745
ISBN: 0770422748
Physical Description: print
245 p. ; 18 cm.
Publisher: Toronto : McClelland and Stewart.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

A place to stand on -- Sayonara, Agamemnon -- The very best intentions -- The poem and the spear -- The epic love of Elmii Bonderii -- Good morning to the grandson of Ramesses the second -- Captain pilot Shawkat and Kipling's ghost -- The wild blue yonder -- Put out one or two more flags -- Road from the isles -- Down east -- Inside the idiot box -- I am a taxi -- Living dangerously...by mail -- The shack -- Upon a midnight clear -- Open letter to the mother of Joe Bass -- Man of our people -- Where the world began.