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Newfoundland & Labrador Book of Musts: The 101 Places Every Newfoundlander & Labradorian MUST See - Softcover

MacIntyre, John

 
9780981094151: Newfoundland & Labrador Book of Musts: The 101 Places Every Newfoundlander & Labradorian MUST See

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THE ULTIMATE INSIDER GUIDE Whether it's embracing the sun&;s rise at Cape Spear (North America&;s most eastern point), eyeballing thousands of Gannets at Bird Rock, exploring historic fishing villages, island hopping in Notre Dame Bay, rafting the Exploits River, touring the Labrador Coast, or just enjoying the friendliness and leisurely pace for which Canada&;s youngest province (and Britain&;s oldest colony) is so famous, this book contains the MUST list every Newfoundlander, Labradorian, and visitor MUST have. From the stunning peaks and valleys of UNESCO World Heritage Site Gros Morne, to St. John&;s famous George Street, the Irish Loop and filming locations for The Shipping News and Random Passage, this is the MUST list every Newfoundlander and Labradorian MUST have. From iconic lighthouses, magnificent churches, and quirky museums to homegrown music, theatre and food, it&;s all here. Even better, it&;s surrounded by magnificent seascapes, spectacular rocky cliffs and more pristine sandy beaches than you'd ever believed possible. We've gathered personalities from around the province to weigh in with their own MUST lists. Singer/songwriters Ron Hynes, Bud Davidge, and Harry Martin, comedian/writer Greg Malone, artist/musician/poet Boyd Chubbs, food-writer/television host Karl Wells, writers Joan Scott and Lisa Rae, artists Heather Igloliorte and Tina Dolter, horticulturalist Ross Traverse, CBC producer Terry LeDrew, dentist/innkeeper/comedian Marina Sexton and entrepreneurs Charlie Oliver, Kay King, and David Crosbie all share their insights about special places in the province, offering personal lists of must-sees and must-dos. This is the ultimate insider MUST list. If you love Newfoundland and Labrador, you simply MUST have the Newfoundland and Labrador Book of Musts.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

JANICE WELLS is originally from Corner Brook and now lives in St. John&;s. She has traveled to 16 countries on three continents and visited many a place she could imagine living, if only they were surrounded by the sea and peopled by Newfoundlanders. Since 1998 Wells has produced the popular weekly column Definitely Not Martha Stewart, entertaining readers in The St. John&;s Telegram, The Halifax Chronicle-Herald and Corner Brook&;s The Western Star. Her 2007 book of the same name was nominated for the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour. She is also the author of three other books: the best-selling The Gin & Tonic Gardener (now in paperback), Another Splash of the Gin & Tonic Gardener and Frank Moores: The Time of His Life. Her articles and essays have appeared in numerous publications including The Toronto Globe and Mail, The Montreal Gazette, The Ottawa Citizen, Canadian Gardening, Garden Making and Downhome. Favourable reviews of her work have appeared in The Literary Review of Canada, as well as The Los Angeles Times, The Las Vegas Review-Journal, The Tampa Tribune and AARP The Magazine. Wells and her partner Bill MacDonald, known to her readers as &;Newman,&; recently purchased an intrepid motor home, fondly dubbed &;the Starship Enterprise,&; to better explore her beloved province.


John MacIntyre is a journalist, a writer, and an editor. His work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Montreal Gazette, and Canadian Lawyer, and he writes a syndicated column, "Figuratively Speaking," which appears in more than 70 newspapers in the United States and Canada. He lives in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

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