An Enduring Wilderness

TORONTO’S NATURAL PARKLANDS

Over a four-year period (2012-16), Robert Burley explored the complex relationship between Toronto’s wilderness and urban life at a pivotal time in city’s history. The outcome is a visual book that explores one of the most extensive urban park systems in the world. Burley’s photographs are augmented with selections of poetry and prose by some of Toronto s best-known writers and this publication also includes a history and appendix which provides an important reference for those wanting to better understand one of Toronto’s most defining features. Commissioned by the City of Toronto, published by ECW Press presented as a feature exhibition in the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival 2017.

Foreward by Mayor John Tory
Introduction by Jennifer Keesmaat and Jani Romoff
Essay by Robert Burley

With writing by:
Anne Michaels
Alissa York
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Michael Mitchell
George Elliott Clarke
Wayne Reeves
Jane Weninger

Published by ECW Press, Toronto 2017
Release date: May 9th, 2017
264 Pages
Hardcover 9 x 12 inches

The author does not recommend the eBook versions of this book.