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The last best place : lost in the heart of Nova Scotia / John DeMont.

by DeMont, John, 1956-

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Doubleday Canada, 1997.

DeMont, John, 1956- -- Travel -- Nova Scotia.

Nova Scotia -- Social life and customs.

Nova Scotia -- Description and travel.

Alternate title:

Lost in the heart of Nova Scotia

"A writer returns to Nova Scotia, and finding it almost unrecognizable, sets out to capture the essence of his ancestral province--a place as strange and wild as anywhere on the continent. John DeMont visits places as diverse as a Buddhist abbey; the first free black settlement outside Africa; an island that harbours pirate treasure; and a backwoods barndance where the music of 18th-century Scotland lives on. He visits tuna smugglers and moonshiners; the brooding painter Alex Colville; spiritual seekers from Japan, the US and Europe; and Anne Murray's greatest Austrian fans. He also races yachts with summer residents; patrols the coast for drug smugglers with the Mounties; and casts for salmon with the wisest fishing guides. A road book with a difference, and an endearing search for home, The Last Best Place is wry and wise, as quirky and lively as Nova Scotia itself."--Overdrive.

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