First published by Oxford University Press in 1993, Exploration
Literature is a groundbreaking collection of early writing inspired by
the opening of a continent.With maps, notes, and thumbnail biographies
of these early writers, Exploration Literature is an entry point for
both the casual reader and the student of Canadian literature into the
beginnings of a literate response to the awe and wonder inspired by an
unfolding geography and the literary fundamentals of new nationhood.