Avalanche of Ocean, An: The Life and Times of A Nova Scotia Immigrant

A book about a love affair with Nova Scotia, about the search for a sane and magnificent asylum away from the industrial world. It explores life and death on Cape Breton, New York City street life with John Milton as a guide, how Marshall McLuhan caused mayhem and revolution in a New Jersey high school, an eclectic approach to winter, Labrador, Saskatoon, smuggling tomatoes into Canada, a strip search at the hands of the Mounties in a Labrador airport, an attempt to hike on foot the entire coastline of Nova Scotia, cigarettes, skateboards, winter surfing in Canada, the decline and fall of outhouses, a curious Nova Scotian rligious cult based on the splitting of firewood, eggplant poetry, hitchhiking in Alabama, learning to live with Davey Crockett, ravens, the Alaskan Highway, Iceland, divine intervention in Pictou County and even the death of Lesley Choyce.