Strange Things
Margaret Atwood''s witty and informative book focuses on the imaginative mystique of the wilderness of the Canadian North. She discusses the ''Grey Owl Syndrome'' of white writers going native; the folklore arising from the mysterious-- and disastrous -- Franklin expedition of the nineteenth century; the myth of the dreaded snow monster, the Wendigo; the relations between nature writing and new fo...
Margaret Atwood''s witty and informative book focuses on the imaginative mystique of the wilderness of the Canadian North. She discusses the ''Grey Owl Syndrome'' of white writers going native; the folklore arising from the mysterious-- and disastrous -- Franklin expedition of the nineteenth century; the myth of the dreaded snow monster, the Wendigo; the relations between nature writing and new fo...
