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Katherine Govier


Katherine Govier is an acclaimed novelist, short-story writer and journalist, born and raised in Alberta and currently living in Toronto. She is the author of eight novels and three short story collections, and is the editor of two collections of travel essays. She is the winner of the Marian Engel Award (for a woman writer in mid-career) among other honours.

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Solo
Written by Katherine Govier

Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Macfarlane Walter & Ross | Travel
978-1-55199-107-8 (1-55199-107-1)

March 16, 2004 | $24.99

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Solo
Written by Katherine Govier

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781551991078
Our Price: $24.99
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The strongest stories of place are often those that tell of a personal pilgrimage: journeys made under compulsion to wonder at nature, to a place of potent memory, a grave or home of a hero, to the site of a disaster or miracle.

In this compelling collection of essays, fifteen internationally acclaimed...


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Without a Guide
Written by Katherine Govier

Trade Paperback | pages | Macfarlane Walter & Ross | Travel - Essays & Travelogues
978-0-921912-75-0 (0-921912-75-7)

August 30, 1994 | $19.95

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Without a Guide
Written by Katherine Govier

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780921912750
Our Price: $19.95
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Award-winning novelist Katherine Govier experienced first-hand what many writers feel about travel: it is a need. To discover characters, settings and customs which they can’t find at home, authors set out for new terrain. Recollections of their voyages create a special category of travel writing. Poets and novelists travelling writers, but...