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<p>From the impenetrable forests of conifers extending for thousands of acres to the countless blue lakes of glacial origins that dot the country like precious stones, the vast prairies and the snowy peaks of the Rocky Mountains - this is Canada. This immense country, nearly three thousand miles long from north to south and with an area of more than three and a half million square miles, hosts a rich, uncontaminated, natural park muffled in the cold silence of the north. The entire country is transformed with the changing of the seasons, with the bright greens of summer giving way to the red and silver patchwork of the pine forests in autumn, before the white mantle falls over everything and the icy, almost crystalline cold puts a halt to most activities. But this book doesn't just deal with nature. The remarkable views of the landscape alternate with the courageous efforts of man, in his strivings to dominate such and impervious, hostile territory by creating a true international power, a nation that has succeeded in making its voice heard in the international economic scene, in spite of the presence of its "big brother" across the border in the United States.</p>