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Philip Marchand


Philip Marchand was born and raised in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and descends from French settlers in Quebec. His biography, Marshall McLuhan, remains the essential book for understanding the life and work of McLuhan. His other books include a collection of his magazine journalism, Just Looking, Thank You, a crime novel, Deadly Spirits, and a collection of his literary criticism, Ripostes: Reflections on Canadian Literature. He lives in Toronto and is the books columnist for the Toronto Star.

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Ghost Empire
Written by Philip Marchand

eBook | 464 pages | McClelland & Stewart | History - North America; History - United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775); History - Canada
978-1-55199-175-7 (1-55199-175-6)

February 24, 2009 | $21.99

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Ghost Empire
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History, travelogue, and memoir combine in this illuminating journey in the footsteps of the great explorer La Salle.

This is the extraordinary account of a personal and historical quest in which Philip Marchand retraces the seventeenth-century explorations of La Salle while he searches in the present day for vestiges of France’s lost...

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Ghost Empire
Written by Philip Marchand

Trade Paperback | 464 pages | McClelland & Stewart | History - North America; History - United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775); History - Canada
978-0-7710-5678-9 (0-7710-5678-8)

October 3, 2006 | $21.99

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Written by Philip Marchand

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History, travelogue, and memoir combine in this illuminating journey in the footsteps of the great explorer La Salle.

This is the extraordinary account of a personal and historical quest in which Philip Marchand retraces the seventeenth-century explorations of La Salle while he searches in the present day for vestiges of France’s lost...

Also available as an eBook.