Camille La Bossière is a traveller. Born in Port Alberni, B.C., and raised in Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, he took post-secondary studies in New York, New Jersey, Québec, Ontario, B.C., and Newfoundland, and taught at the University of Ottawa for 20 years following a time with Royal Roads Military College of Victoria, B.C. "Outridings: ventures Métis into letters Québecoises" (2003, Tecumseh) and "Back to Sources: Essays Métis from the Outaouais" (2003, Tecumseh) are among his publications.

This book tells a story of an adventurous, quizzical Manitoba Métis´ recollective inquiries into modern Québéc literature in the light of three ideas as old as they are new - of "rebirth," "revolution" and "unity." All the incidents that Outridings recalls are severally funny - by turns highspirited, grim, sympathetic, ambiguous, critical and celebratory in their humour and almost invariably ironic in their effort to clarify, illuminate.