THE LINES ACROSS THE LAND, THE LINES ACROSS A LIFE

“How can you draw a line across the land? A cut line will grow back; the land knows no natural division. How do you draw a line across the water? You cannot cut a lake in two. How do you draw a line across a life? It happens all the time.”

This book is about walking from Canada to the United States and back again in order to explore the continuities and discontinuities in the landscape and in my life that have become significant to me as an American who immigrated to Canada. I contextualize this walk to the border with reflections on immigration, cultural identity, ecology, and research into the process of surveying of the international boundary at the 49th parallel during the 19th century.

The text is a 5000 word essay, accompanied by photographs I took of the US-Canadian border along the Boundary Trail that links Waterton National Park (Canada) and Glacier National Park (USA).

Hard cover drum leaf binding: 6.5 x 5.75 x 0.75”
Soft cover drum leaf binding (various cover color variations): 6.5 x 5.75 x 0.5”