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Larger Than Life: Saskatchewan's Big Roadside Monuments

Discover Saskatchewan's Larger Than Life Monuments

You see them as you drive down the highway - larger than life depictions of moose, Mounties, coffee pots, prairie lilies, buffalo, birds and bees, and practically any critter you can imagine. Heck, we love our wildlife so much that we even build monuments to gophers and grasshoppers. Some are serious art, many tell a story, and a few are tongue-in-cheek or completely off the wall. One actually is a wall!

Larger Than Life: Saskatchewan's Big Roadside Monuments, is a new book by Saskatchewan writers and photographers, Robin and Arlene Karpan that takes you to over 70 communities to marvel at massive monuments. Know where to find the world's largest still for making home brew? How about the world's largest moose, white-tailed deer antlers, or bunnock? Why did a Saskatchewan town build a huge Santa Claus, and others build a big pink pig, a lighthouse, or huge kangaroo rats? Why on Earth would someone put a Massey combine atop an 80-foot pedestal?

The 176-page book, accompanied by 136 photographs, not only guides you to monument sites, but also takes you behind the scenes to discover the many fascinating stories behind who built these intriguing gigantic sculptures and why.

Larger Than Life: Saskatchewan's Big Roadside Monuments sells for $18.95 at bookstores and select gift shops, or order direct from Parkland Publishing at 306-242-7731.

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Larger Than Life: Saskatchewan's Big Roadside Monuments
by Robin and Arlene Karpan
$18.95 soft cover
5 1/2 x 8 1/2
176 pages

37 colour photos, 99 B&W photos
ISBN 0-9683579-9-7

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