The Perilous Trade: Book Publishing in Canada, 1946-2006

A book that will fascinate and inform readers who love Canadian writing

“Publishing Canadian books has always been an experiment. Like the great experiments of building a transcontinental railway and a national broadcasting system, it constitutes one of the nation’s defining acts. Publishing, after all, is a people’s way of telling its story to itself.”
–from the Introduction

Part cultural history, part personal memoir, this accomplished, sweeping, yet int…