Cameron Dueck travels across Latin America on a motorcycle to explore isolated Mennonite enclaves and his own identity. He encounters conflicts with secular neighbors, a mass-rape scandal, and the Green Hell of Paraguay, finding reasons to both love and loathe his culture.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 328 pages
Publication date: 23 July 2020
Publisher: Biblioasis

Cameron Dueck, a motorcycle adventurer, embarks on a journey from Manitoba to southern Chile, seeking out isolated enclaves of Mennonites and exploring his own identity. His memoir, "An Engrossing Account of an Unusual Adventure," is a beautifully written and insightful exploration of the nature of identity in a changing world. Dueck's journey takes him across Latin America, where a cloistered Germanic people known as Mennonites have lived for nearly a century. They have kept their doors and 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 to Canada, where they enjoyed the freedoms they sought under the protection of a nascent government. However, in the 1920s, when the country began to take shape as a nation and their separatism came under scrutiny, groups of Mennonites left for the promises of Latin America, seeking unbroken land and new guarantees of freedom to create autonomous, ethnically pure colonies. Dueck's memoir follows his ancestors south, finding reasons to both love and loathe his culture and, in the process, finding himself.

Cameron Dueck's Motorcycle Journey from Manitoba to Southern Chile

Cameron Dueck, a motorcycle adventurer, embarks on a journey from Manitoba to southern Chile, seeking out isolated enclaves of Mennonites and exploring his own identity. His memoir, "An Engrossing Account of an Unusual Adventure," is a beautifully written and insightful exploration of the nature of identity in a changing world. Dueck's journey takes him across Latin America, where a cloistered Germanic people known as Mennonites have lived for nearly a century. They have kept their doors and 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 to Canada, where they enjoyed the freedoms they sought under the protection of a nascent government. However, in the 1920s, when the country began to take shape as a nation and their separatism came under scrutiny, groups of Mennonites left for the promises of Latin America, seeking unbroken land and new guarantees of freedom to create autonomous, ethnically pure colonies. Dueck's memoir follows his ancestors south, finding reasons to both love and loathe his culture and, in the process, finding himself.

Weight: 424g
Dimension: 142 x 215 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781771963473