Content tagged with "canada"
Secret Treasure of Oak Island: The Amazing True Story of a Centuries-Old Treasure Hunt
This book is both fascinating and inadvertently funny. I found myself laughing with happiness at some parts of it, contemplating what just might be an amazing prank that’s played out over hundreds of years. Way, way back in 1795, three Canadian teenagers found a depressed area of ground on a small…
What’s Bred in the Bone
Robertson Davies is apparently a very famous Canadian novelist. The fact that I didn’t know this is not surprising, I guess. I was visiting a friend in Ottawa, and we went to a local bookstore. He handed me this and told me to buy it. He said it was required reading for most Canadian high school…
