Ghost Camps: Memory and Myth on Canada's Frontiers

by Stephen Hume

Many centuries ago, at a time when the people of Ireland were bing converted, much as the native people of Canada were converted, the high king was presured by Christian missionaries to rid the country of its poet whom they considered to be a troublesome pagan lot. But one native Irish priest intervened, arguing that to banish the poets would be a national disaster. They were, with their heads full of visions from the past, the true wealth of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0920897657
• ISBN13: 9780920897652
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: NeWest Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.