One of Newfoundland and Labrador’s most prominent musicians has written a new book that takes people on a tour through Newfoundland and Labrador.

Alan Doyle wrote “The Smiling Land” while he and his wife were taking their son on a trip across the province.

He calls the book a “love letter to home.”

He says the book is a “discovery and rediscovery of places I grew up in and some other places places in our province I had never been to. It’s part travel book, and part observational commentary on what I think makes Newfoundland the glorious place that it is.”

Doyle references one story told in the book in which he is driving a minivan along the Southern Labrador Highway between the ferry and Battle Harbour.

“It’s one of the most ‘Mad Max’ moments I’ve ever had in my life. It is an incredible journey that you can take in our own province and I’m sure not a lot of people have done it. It’s just an almost impossible stretch of road that just seems to be there, you know, despite itself and it’s beautifully isolating and quiet and odd.”