Troy Parfitt: 2 books

War Torn: Adventures in the Brave New Canada is about one man’s struggle to identify with his homeland. After 12 years in East Asia, English teacher Troy Parfitt returns to Canada and embarks on a cross-country journey that covers each province and territory. The reader is treated to poetic geographical-descriptions,...

Parfitt takes a look at Korea's fever-pitch nationalism and gives an assessment of the world’s only Chinese democracy, has a run-in with a Nepalese rhinoceros – and one or two equally volatile Vietnamese tour guides – and ponders the actions and reactions of the people he meets. In these pages...