Prairie People: A Celebration of My Homeland Paperback - 2004
by Robert Collins
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Details
- Title Prairie People: A Celebration of My Homeland
- Author Robert Collins
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st printing
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 360
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher McClelland & Stewart, Toronto
- Date 2004
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # 049044
- ISBN 9780771022586 / 0771022581
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Canadian
- Cultural Region: Plains
- Geographic Orientation: Saskatchewan
- Dewey Decimal Code 971.2
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From the publisher
From the jacket flap
The prairies are Robert Collins's spiritual home. He was born and raised on a Saskatchewan farm, but spent most of his adult life living elsewhere. Now he returns to his homeland to pay homage to the special character of the people who live in this unique region of Canada.
"Prairie People is an absorbing combination of stories, anecdotes, and touches of history told in the voices of ordinary people and linked by the author's own narrative and memories. It explores the characteristics that define these people to themselves and to the rest of Canada. Prairie people are clearly not all alike: city and town dwellers differ from farmers, farmers from ranchers, ranchers and cowboys from oilmen. But many of the stereotypes are true. They are defiantly pessimistic. They believe they are tougher than everybody else. They are uncommonly independent and self-reliant.
In this sympathetic yet realistic portrait, Collins looks at where the original settlers of the prairies came from. He describes how nature shaped them, and how hard work through good times and bad toughened them. He finds evidence of their legendary friendliness and neighbourliness. And he seeks to understand their deep attachment either to the left and right in politics and their unifying distrust of "Central Canada."
"From the Hardcover edition.
