Heart of a Stranger

by Margaret Laurence

Book Overview

Between 1964 and 1975, Margaret Laurence wrote not only her Manawaka cycle, but also this collection of essays chronicling her travels and revealing how they inspired her fiction. Nora Foster Stovel's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 077104710X
• ISBN13: 9780771047107
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A world spanning travel adventure

Edited and with an Introduction by Nora Foster Stovel for this University of Albert Press edition, Heart Of A Stranger was originally published in 1976, and is an absorbing travelogue of Margaret Laurence's one-woman global journey, a world spanning travel adventure which brought her new perspectives both on faraway lands such as Africa as well as her cherished home of Canada. Containing threads of autobiography and life journey, as well as fascinating views of diverse cultures, Heart Of A Stranger is a most memorable and enjoyable read which is especially recommended to the attention of travelogue enthusiasts.