In Pursuit of Tomorrow: The Inventive Life of Sandford Fleming

In Pursuit of Tomorrow is the stunning new biography of an innovator, engineer, explorer, and relentless dreamer.

Sandford Fleming directed the building of the intercontinental then the transcontinental railway; reset the world’s clocks with the adoption of global time zones; championed an undersea cable linking the British empire and a bias-free cable news network; founded an institute to stir imaginations and forge progress; laid out roads, towns, and waterfronts; and even designed Canada’...