Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. A Note on the Texts vii
4. Preface xxxi
5. THE BLUE ROAD
6. 1 The Moon in Montreal 1
7. 2 Quebec City Flash 7
8. 3 Route 175 North 14
9. 4 Chicoutimi, Couscous And Old White Whisky 18
10. 5 The Walk To Pointe-Bleue 22
11. 6 Eskimo Joe 30
12. 7 White Night 33
13. 8 The Wind At Seven Islands 37
14. 9 On The Coast 43
15. 10 Jean-Baptiste 52
16. 11 The Big Dance At Mingan 57
17. 12 The End Of The Road 64
18. 13 The Train To Schefferville 69
19. 14 The Shaman And The Lighthouse-Keeper 74
20. 15 Calling Carcajou 79
21. 16 At Indian House Lake 84
22. 17 The Goose Bay Companions 87
23. 18 Arctic Chronicles 91
24. 19 The Naked Earth 95
25. 20 Ungava 99
26. 21 Labrador Or The Waking Dream 103
27. Front Matter 2 111
28. GUIDO’S MAP
29. Preface 113
30. 1 Tropic of Saturn 117
31. 2 The Crows of the Englischer Garten 125
32. 3 The Latest News from Brussels 131
33. 4 Blue Smoke on a White Cliff 140
34. 5 An Irish Jaunt 148
35. 6 That Old Bilbao Moon 156
36. 7 The Lights and Shadows of Galicia 160
37. 8 On the Heights of Aurora 169
38. 9 Between Byzantium and a Bog 175
39. 10 The Trieste Passage 182
40. 11 A Whistle and a Stone 189
41. 12 Around the Black Mountain 194
42. 13 Quiet Days in Pula 204
43. 14 Letter from Stockholm 210
44. 15 Clandestine Return to Native Shores 216
45. Front Matter 3 227
46. THE WINDS OF VANCOUVER
47. 1 The Hour of the Owl 229
48. 2 The Great Gateway 232
49. 3 A Story Written on the Winds 236
50. 4 Renaissance Rock 241
51. 5 Inventing an Itinerary 245
52. 6 An Ancestor who Passed this Way 248
53. 7 The Opening Space 254
54. 8 Salutations to the Ice-Chief 260
55. 9 Capital City Talk 271
56. 10 A Microcosm of the Human Condition 279
57. 11 At the Top of White Pass 288
58. 12 In the Backlands of Sitka 292
59. 13 Traces and Tracks on Kayak Island 300
60. 14 Across the Kenai 308
61. 15 Homer’s Town 314
62. 16 Aboard the Snowbird 322