1000 Questions About Canada
«1000 Questions About Canada»
ISBN 0888822324 | Year 2006 | PDF | 1.2 Mb | 386 Pages
In this book you will find one thousand entries, some long, some short, devoted to subjects of Canadian interest. The entries are loosely grouped into four categories – People, Places, Things, Ideas – but other than that they are arranged in no particular order. (As merchandiser Ed Mirvish always says, “Messy sells better than neat.”) Each entry consists of a straight-forward question followed by an informative answer. The work is a question-and-answer book, not a quiz book. A questionand- answer book bears the same relationship to a quiz book that a general- interest magazine does to a daily newspaper: It tells little stories. It does not dwell on current events but on curious events of lasting interest. Nor is the present book an almanac or a fact book. Instead it is a work that has been prepared to be of interest to the general reader with a taste for Canadian subjects and topics. In fact, it is my hope that the unlikely questions will be answered in such a way as to surprise the reader and from time to time astonish him or her.