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Menno Moto - A Journey Across the Americas in Search of My Mennonite Identity (Paperback)
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Menno Moto - A Journey Across the Americas in Search of My Mennonite Identity (Paperback)
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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 Across Latin America, from the plains of Mexico
to the jungles of Paraguay, live a cloistered Germanic people. For
nearly a century, they have kept their doors and their minds
closed, separating their communities from a secular world they view
as sinful. The story of their search for religious and social
independence began generations ago in Europe and led them, in the
late 1800s, to Canada, where they enjoyed the freedoms they sought
under the protection of a nascent government. Yet in the 1920s,
when the country many still consider their motherland began to take
shape as a nation and their separatism came under scrutiny, groups
of Mennonites left for the promises of Latin America: unbroken land
and new guarantees of freedom to create autonomous, ethnically pure
colonies. There they live as if time stands still-an isolation with
dark consequences. In this memoir of an eight-month, 45,000
kilometre motorcycle journey across the Americas, Mennonite writer
Cameron Dueck searches for common ground within his cultural
diaspora. From skirmishes with secular neighbours over water rights
in Mexico, to a mass-rape scandal in Bolivia, to the Green Hell of
Paraguay and the wheat fields of Argentina, Dueck follows his
ancestors south, finding reasons to both love and loathe his
culture-and, in the process, finding himself.
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