Program

Follow Dutch/American author and photographer AgathaO (alter ego of historian Pleun Bouricius) and her Canadian/American traveling companion across the northern United States to British Columbia, and back through Canada. For five weeks, the pair sticks to the most northerly byways of both countries, camping in their 2008 Toyota Tacoma, as the trip becomes their destination.

Bouricius will be reading selecions from her newly-published and richly illustrated Northern Byways and Other Essays from the Road, a “windshield survey of the lay of the land across the norths of North America, across the thinly populated expanses that most of us Americans and Canadians profess to love.” She brings you along on a journey of discovery of how we have shaped our landscapes, and raises questions about what we are doing with the vast riches we have inherited from our forebears.

Bouricius has meticulously documented her online research, and the volume is also a commentary on the value of books, reading, and research in a world where facts are currency and seemingly malleable at the same time. There wil be ample time for a conversation to follow the reading. Northern Byways and the author’s other books will be on sale at the event.