These four essays find their basis in the everyday stuff of backwoods Nova Scotia, demonstrating how a road with two names, a crooked knife, an abandoned shipyard and a fragment of gypsum might hone our thoughts and shape our sense of words ...

This essay on ecology and language was originally presented during Convocation exercises held by Nova Scotia Agricultural College on 4 May 2012, at which the author received an honourary Doctorate of Laws from Dalhousie University.

This book celebrates the life and work of acclaimed New Brunswick photographer Thaddeus Holownia, former head of Fine Arts and Research Professor at Mount Allison University, and recipient of the Lieutenant-Governor's Award for High ...

The book also includes a short essay ("Leaping Time") which combines memories, childhood books and equine lore to provide a sort of mirror to John Stokes' horse.

One of these contains the story of Little Thunder and his journey to find a wife, as told to Rand by Susan Barss in 1847. The other is the story of a woman who survives alone on an island after being abandoned by her husband.