Menno moto: a journey across the Americas in search of my Mennonite identity
✍ Scribed by Cameron Dueck
- Publisher
- Biblioasis
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- America;Canada
- ISBN
- 1771963484
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✦ Synopsis
On a motorcycle trip from Manitoba to southern Chile, Cameron Dueck seeks out isolated enclaves of Mennonites --and himself.
"An engrossing account of an unusual adventure, beautifully written and full of much insight about the nature of identity in our ever-changing world, but also the constants that hold us together." --Adam Shoalts, national best-seller author of Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic and A History of Canada in 10 Maps
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