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Same ground : chasing family down the California Gold Rush Trail / Russell Wangersky.
In 'Same Ground', an award-winning author goes looking for the meaning of family and belonging on a glorious wild-goose-chase road trip across middle America. Russell Wangersky lives in Saskatoon, SK.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781770416543 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: xiv, 350 pages : maps ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Toronto : ECW Press, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
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| Subject: | Wangersky, Russell, 1962- > Family. Wangersky, Russell, 1962- > Travel > West (U.S.) Authors, Canadian (English) > 21st century > Biography. |
| Genre: | Biographies. Autobiographies. Personal narratives. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | 819.8603 Wange | 31681010292571 | NONFICPBK | Available | - |
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A personal tale of parallel journeys separated by almost two centuries â by car, in Wangerskyâs case, and on mule and foot in the case of his great-great-grandfather William Castle Dodge. - Simon and Schuster
âRead him.â â George Elliott Clarke, author of I & I and George and Rue
An award-winning author goes looking for the meaning of family and belonging on a glorious wild-goose-chase road trip across middle America
Wangerskyâs great-great-grandfather crossed the continent in search of gold in 1849. William Castle Dodge was his name, and he was 22 years old. He wrote a diary of that eventful journey that comes into the authorâs hands 160 years later. And typically, quixotically, Wangersky decides to follow Dodgeâs westward trail across the great bulging middle of America, not in search of gold but something even less likely: that elusive thing called family.
What ensues becomes this story, by turns hilarious and profound, about a very long trip â by car, in Wangerskyâs case, and on mule and foot in Dodgeâs. Interweaving his experiences on the road with Dodgeâs diary, the author contemplates the human need to hunt for roots and meaning as he â and Dodge â encounter immigrants who risk everything to be somewhere else, while only glimpsing those who are there already and who want to hold onto their claim in the stream of human migration.
Same Ground is a story about what time washes away and what persists â and what we might find, unexpectedly, if we go looking.
