With An Innocent in Ireland (1995), David McFadden began his eccentric journeys to the heart of some of the world’s most unique island nations. Now McFadden rambles through the highs and lows of Cuba, home to cigars, Guantanamera, and of course Castro. The beautiful Caribbean landscape, along with Cuba’s rich history, culture, and uncertain future, lend themselves to the quirky eye and wry witticisms of our innocent Canadian guide. Poking into the nation’s many corners, McFadden offers a series of vignettes of the people, cities,villages, roads, and countryside of the island the author refers to as “the most famous little country in the world.” Warm and colourful, An Innocent in Cuba is a musical, sensuous, flirtatious, joyful tribute to the Cuban spirit in all its incarnations.

An Innocent in Cuba

Travel

McFadden, David

Caribbean

MCCLELLAND STEWART

When writer David McFadden sets out on a tour of Ireland, he is determined to so do in a relatively innocent state. Using as a guide only In Search of Ireland, a 1930 title by travel writer H. V. Morton, he plans to follow the same route, to try to determine how things have changed and how they have remained the same. This he proceeds to do – at least at first. But soon he is wandering more and more erratically around the country, poking into any corner and musing over any sight that takes his fancy – from a cozy guest house in Kilcullen to the legendary Hill of Tara, from the south-coast pub run by twin sisters to the windswept reaches of the Ballaghbeama Gap. And increasingly he is drawn to the prehistoric monuments of ancient Ireland. As he goes, he records his very personal impressions in a clear-eyed and wryly humorous way. Wisely, McFadden also lets the many characters he meets speak for themselves; he loves a good chat and he gives ample space to the various loquacious barmen, shopkeepers, hoteliers, and passersby along the way. And of all the eccentric and appealing characters that he encounters, one of the most intriguing is his travelling companion, the mysterious Spanish chambermaid and poet Lourdes Brasil. Amusing, quirky, compassionate but unsentimental, An Innocent in Ireland is a treat for any armchair traveller.

An Innocent in Ireland: Curious Rambles and Singular Encounters

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

David McFadden travels around Newfoundland. Who knows which was most charmed In An Innocent in Ireland (1995) and An Innocent in Scotland (1999), poet and traveller David McFadden let the spirit of the country – and his own interests – guide his rambles. He has now done the same in Newfoundland. Zigzagging across the province in his rented car, he charts an erratic course, admiring lawn sculpture (in his opinion a new local art), visiting fellow poets and publishers, wandering at dusk among the Viking mounds at L’Anse aux Meadows, rooming with a Salvation Army family in a distant outport (and discovering a family tragedy), hanging on in a stiff wind to watch birds nesting on a cliff face, and enjoying the social life in countless bars and restaurants. It soon becomes clear that McFadden’s love of a good chat is shared widely by the people he meets in Newfoundland and he is wise enough to let them tell their own stories. For, as ever, his interest is in the heart of a place – and not just its scenery. Alert, somewhat eccentric, always ready to amuse and be amused, David McFadden is an ideal travelling companion.

An Innocent in Newfoundland: Even More Curious Rambles and Singular Encounters

Canada

Intense pleasure

McClelland and Stewart

A Trip Around Lake Ontario

Coach House Pr

The history of Anna Haines, Nancy Babb and the other Quakers who went to Russia to provide relief from war and famine between 1916 and 1931 enables us to explore intertwined issues of religious witness, political action and humanitarian service in the midst of extremely challenging personal and political conditions.

Constructive Spirit: Quakers in Revolutionary Russia

Politics & Social Sciences

Gorfinkel, Claire

Politics & Government

Intentional Productions

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T. R. A. I. L. S. Trail Riding Assessment and Informational Learning System: Buying and Training Fearless Trail Horses

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pets & Animal Care

TRAILS Horse Training

The first in a landmark series of three titles that assembles, documents, interprets and explores the rich diversity of craft, art and design being produced today by contemporary Native American artists. This first volume, on Native American art from the Southwest, includes works in a wide variety of media by approximately 90 artists.

Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation, 1

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Merrell Publishers

The often outrageous and always wise follow-up to 2008's Governor General's AwardÐnominated Be Calm, Honey shows David W. McFadden at his most inquisitive and provocative. Here you'll find ninety-nine poems full of surprises by a Canadian long-distance poet in his sixth decade of writing, a writer who never rests on his laurels or allows himself to become complacent. This is a book full of mystics and Golden Age movie stars, friends of McFadden and long-dead philosophers, and their tales are all told in the poet's deceptively plainspoken voice.

What's The Score (Stuart Ross Books)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Mansfield Press

His life in Canadian poetry has spanned five decades, and David W. McFadden is still going strong. This selection from his career to date brings back into print many of the greatest poems from nearly two dozen books. Chosen and introduced by fellow poet Stuart Ross, in full collaboration with the author, these poems reaffirm McFadden's status as one of Canada's most gratifying, ineffable, and necessary poets. Praise for David W. McFadden "The arcs of his imaginative flights illuminate whole arks for the soul, places you can enter, come in out of the rain, the storms, and claim as your own." — bpNichol "McFadden is a national treasure." — Brian Fawcett "Gypsy Guitar is everybody's favourite book of poetry." — George Bowering "Ideally, I'd like everyone to read it." — Rhonda Batchelor on Gypsy Guitar "McFadden is the poet laureate of the happy accident." — Bruce Grierson "I tore up all the other letters today tho there is one smart kid called Dave McFadden." — Jack Kerouac

Why Are You So Sad?: Selected Poems of David W. McFadden. Selected and Introduced by Stuart Ross

Idiomatic

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