Kanata

From the author of A People's History comes an epic story about the invention of our nation.

David Thompson, a Welshman who came to the New World at the age of fifteen, became its greatest cartographer. He walked or paddled 80,000 miles and mapped 1.9 million square miles, cataloguing flora and fauna as well as the language and customs of the Natives. But although he has been described as the greatest land geographer who ever lived, he died impoverished and virtually unknown.

Kanata Following the lives of Thompson's illegitimate son and his descendants, Kanata takes readers on a fictionalized, multi-generational journey through millennia and across a continent to examine the stories, myths, and legends of those who formed the country and who were formed by it.  Peopled by such remarkable Canadians as John A. MacDonald, Norman Bethune, Mackenzie King, and John Diefenbaker and written with such great passion and insight, Kanata is the untold story of the invention of a nation.