About the Author
Val Ross was a renowned journalist and won a National Newspaper Award. She was highly respected throughout the publishing industry for her coverage of books and the people who create them. She was an arts reporter at
The Globe and Mail and her first book,
The Road to There: Mapmakers and Their Stories was nominated for many awards and won the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Childrens non-fiction. Val Ross passed away in 2008.
This is her long-awaited first adult book.
From the Hardcover edition.