Where can you find the past of a country that wants to believe that it has no past? This is the paradox that lies beneath Michael Kluckner's quest, and it gives a rueful flavour to almost everything he tells and shows us in Canada: A Journey of Discovery. History exists on the fringes of Canada's collective consciousness and Kluckner wants to pull it back toward the centre, where it belongs. So he sets off, armed with insight and talent, in an ambitious and idealistic attempt to explore the historical sites where we can breathe "air infused with the magic elixir of memory."
