The province?s premier journalist tells the story he was born to write.
JOHN DEMONT is a senior writer and columnist forThe Chronicle HeraldandHerald Magazine. He is an award-winning journalist and author with more than 25 years of experience. A former national correspondent forMaclean'smagazine, his books includeCitizens Irving, The Last Best Place, Coal Black Heart, and, most recently,A Good Day's Work.
Advance Praise for The Long Way Home:
“DeMont drifts with ease between the present and the
past, evoking with great feeling those who walked and breathed
and cultivated this land before us. I wish all history books
were so beautifully written.” —Donna Morrissey, author of The
Fortunate Brother
“The Long Way Home is history from the heart written with a
journalist's instinctive understanding of the instructive power in
dramatic detail and human foible, places where historians all too
often fear to tread.” —Linden MacIntyre, author of The Only
Café
“This is a voyage for the ages—a tender peregrination through
memory and the province that is Canada’s old soul, rendered vivid
and exceptionally moving by the author’s singular knowledge and
love of place.” —Noah Richer, author of The Candidate
“John DeMont knows this very well: Nova Scotians have always taken
our history personally. Our identities both as a province and the
separate cultures under its umbrella are defined by recognizing and
protecting it. We look to our history and we know who we are,
we hold it to our hearts as we walk forward. Demont has
walked the width and length of Nova Scotia for decades encountering
this history, sometimes even in person as it happened. You
get the sense that he has gathered the province in his arms.
He is captured by personalities, of those who leap naturally from
the pages of the history books, but also those modern stewards, the
local that someone points him towards for a story, the living
encounters that left an impression. It is the Nova Scotia we
live and love, the hard-won and heartbreak both, a personal
history, as is only fit from someone who met it face to face so
often.” —Kate Beaton, author of Hark! A Vagrant and Step Aside,
Pops
“John DeMont has done wandering Nova Scotians a great
service. In this wonderfully and carefully written book he
has captured much of what we all miss when we're away, and what
keeps us coming home.” —Gerald Butts, Principal Secretary, the
Prime Minister of Canada
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