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A Daytripper's Guide to Manitoba: Exploring Canada's Undiscovered Province
This glossy, full—colour guidebook from well—travelled Winnipeg Free Press columnist Bartley Kives offers a wide range of idiosyncratic adventures available year—round in every region of Manitoba.
- GenresNonfictionTravel
240 pages, Paperback
First published June 5, 2006
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About the author
Bartley Kives
4 books7 followersLifelong Manitoban writes about travel, food and politics out of a century-old home in one of inner-city Winnipeg's most colourful 'hoods.
The forty something recovering music journalist juggles a day job as a city hall reporter for the Winnipeg Free Press with a weekend wilderness-travel column called Offroad. His work has also appeared on CBC Radio and in publications such as explore magazine, National Geographic Traveler and Western Living.
The forty something recovering music journalist juggles a day job as a city hall reporter for the Winnipeg Free Press with a weekend wilderness-travel column called Offroad. His work has also appeared on CBC Radio and in publications such as explore magazine, National Geographic Traveler and Western Living.
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March 3, 2018
A fantastic, well written guide to Winnipeg and Manitoba. The book begins with a few chapters on the human and natural history of Manitoba. Then the province is divided up into logical sections with Winnipeg treated first.
The guide mentions a few places to eat and sleep for each geographic location, but mostly lists places to visit and activities to partake in. The guide is heavy on outdoorsy hike/bike/paddle activities but also contains tacky-tourist listings for the winnebago warriors, and theatre/galleries/museums for the culture warriors.
The writing is clear and no nonsense, humorous at times but not frivolous. The fact that the author mentions places NOT worth visiting (and why) lends the guide an air of trustworthiness.
That's my impressions of this book as read from my sofa in Edmonton. The real test will be when we have it with us during our 20 day visit to Manitoba this coming summer. Perhaps I will have to add another paragraph to this review afterwards on how it performed in the field.
The guide mentions a few places to eat and sleep for each geographic location, but mostly lists places to visit and activities to partake in. The guide is heavy on outdoorsy hike/bike/paddle activities but also contains tacky-tourist listings for the winnebago warriors, and theatre/galleries/museums for the culture warriors.
The writing is clear and no nonsense, humorous at times but not frivolous. The fact that the author mentions places NOT worth visiting (and why) lends the guide an air of trustworthiness.
That's my impressions of this book as read from my sofa in Edmonton. The real test will be when we have it with us during our 20 day visit to Manitoba this coming summer. Perhaps I will have to add another paragraph to this review afterwards on how it performed in the field.
June 13, 2017
This book was 1/3 smarm, 1/3 nostalgia (I visited a lot of small towns in my previous job), and 1/3 astonishment (at the suggestions beyond the usual suspects, plus number of tea rooms out there, yaaaaaas) / disappointment (at the stuff that's closed since the book was last updated).
April 20, 2010
Manitoba!!
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