Newfoundlanders have long stood with the Quebecois and the indigenous peoples of the country as the most un-Canadian creatures: people who seem to know exactly who they are, who have a sense of identity rooted in place that is a kind of nationalism, culturally speaking at the very least. Michael Crummey and Greg Locke lead the reader into the heart of Newfoundland. In a brilliant essay, accompanied by more than one hundred full-colour photographs, they explore an elusive quality - "this Newfoundland thing" - that shapes the island's inhabitants.