Second Season Of Jonas MacPherson

The Second Season of Jonas MacPherson details the life of an Eastern Shore Nova Scotian. A remarkable gallery of characters crosses paths with Jonas: Muriel Cree and the itinerant mulatto Baptist preacher; John Kincaid, the single-minded fisherman; and Joe Allen Joe, the last surviving Micmac in the area. Lesley Choyce weaves dramatic and fantastic events - including a solo flight across the Atlantic in a stolen German plane - against a backdrop of rugged shoreline and ubiquitous sea. His autobiography, An Avalanche of Ocean, was nominated for the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour.

Lesley Choyce was born in New Jersey in 1951 and moved to Canada in 1978. Choyce teaches part-time at Dalhousie University, runs Pottersfield Press and has written 40 adult and young adult books. Choyce also hosts a nationally syndicated TV talk show in Halifax. His recent novel, The Republic of Nothing is currently being developed as a feature length movie. In 1996, Viking/Penguin published Choyce's best-selling Nova Scotia: Shaped By The Sea. Along with the Surf Poets, he has released a poetry/music album titled Long Lost Planet.