Orkney
October Diary
- Publisher
- Gaspereau Press Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2002
- Category
- Canadian
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Leather / fine binding
- ISBN
- 9781894031677
- Publish Date
- Oct 2002
- List Price
- $80
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Description
A whimsical journey to a Scottish island. Cast in Eusebius and hand-printed on 100 lb Mohawk Superfine paper. Illustration by Andrew Steeves. Casebound, paper over boards, by Ruth Legge. Signed and numbered in an edition of 50 copies.
About the author
In the spring of 2001, Douglas Lochhead received the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in English-language Literary Arts from the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Member of the Order of Canada, the recipient of honorary doctorates from several universities, Professor Emeritus at Mount Allison University, Senior Fellow and Founding Librarian at Massey College, University of Toronto, and a life member of the League of Canadian Poets. After beginning his career as an advertising copywriter, he became a librarian, a professor of English, a specialist in typography and fine hand printing, and a bibliographer, scholar, and editor — indeed, he has characterized himself as “an unrepentant generalist.” At Mount Allison University, he was a founder and the director of the Centre for Canadian Studies, and he held the Edgar and Dorothy Davidson Chair in Canadian Studies.