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Unmarked: Landscapes Along Highway 16
A small book about a big place, Unmarked: Landscapes Along Highway 16 by Sarah de Leeuw (NeWest Press $15.95) reflects on large lives in Tlell, Port Clements, Kitwanga, Rosswood, Fraser Lake and places that many people have never heard of. De Leeuw's poetic essays capture stories from up country communities dotted along grand river valleys, below towering mountains and across a turbulent sea-various places de Leeuw has called home.
"No one believes the tales I have to tell,"; she says, "the tales of balancing rocks and whales spitting on highways, of road fissures so deep that a constant stream of cement cannot fill them, tiny earthquakes always re-opening the pavement. Drink from the water near this fracture and your blood will be charged like a magnet; you will always return, a compass needle veering toward the magnetic north.";
De Leeuw has worked in a women's centre and a logging camp; as a tug boat driver and a journalist. She is now completing her Ph.D in Cultural Geography at Queen's University in Kingston. She describes her first book as a collection of essays about powerful people whose stories "are relegated to the land of nowhereness."; 1-896300-88-X -- Heather Ramsay, BCBW 2004.
"No one believes the tales I have to tell,"; she says, "the tales of balancing rocks and whales spitting on highways, of road fissures so deep that a constant stream of cement cannot fill them, tiny earthquakes always re-opening the pavement. Drink from the water near this fracture and your blood will be charged like a magnet; you will always return, a compass needle veering toward the magnetic north.";
De Leeuw has worked in a women's centre and a logging camp; as a tug boat driver and a journalist. She is now completing her Ph.D in Cultural Geography at Queen's University in Kingston. She describes her first book as a collection of essays about powerful people whose stories "are relegated to the land of nowhereness."; 1-896300-88-X -- Heather Ramsay, BCBW 2004.
Submitted on September 25, 2004 in By David.
