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| Author | : Alexandra Morton |
| Publisher | : TouchWood Editions |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2016-05-03 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1926971221 |
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Originally published in 1998, this updated edition has a brand-new cover and interior design, with a new foreword by Alexandra Morton. Billy Proctor was born in 1934 and has spent his entire life in a remote coastal community called Echo Bay, BC on an island off northern Vancouver Island. Proctor has always done the time-honoured work of generations of upcoast men—hand-logging, fishing, clam digging, repairing boats, beachcombing. But Billy eventually began to notice that the thriving runs of Pacific salmon, oolichans, and herring that he remembers from his early years were vanishing—some to near extinction—and he understood that it was time to take action. Heart of the Raincoast is the fascinating story of Billy Proctor’s life, and the wealth of knowledge and understanding that can only be gained from living in such close proximity to nature. The writing is funny, touching and honest—and offers an engaging insider’s view not only of the salmon, whales, eagles and independent people who populate Canada’s wild and lovely coastal rainforest, but on what we need to do to keep it as nature intended.
| Author | : Alexandra Morton |
| Publisher | : TouchWood Editions |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2009-06-24 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781894898263 |
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Annotation Alexandra Morton is an internationally known whale researcher familiar to everyone interested in the west coast. Billy Proctor was born in the Broughton Archipelago, and has spent his life doing the time-honoured work of up-coast men -- fishing, hand-logging, beach-combing. One day, he realised that the coast he loved was dying around him and understood that it was time to put something back. 'Heart of the Raincoast' is the story of Billy Proctor's life, and the life of the coast he knows so well, once so rich, now so threatened.
| Author | : Alexandra Morton |
| Publisher | : TouchWood Editions |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2016-05-03 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1771511796 |
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"A lot of people think they own the things on this planet, but they are wrong, because we are just visiting for a short time and then we are gone ... Everything was here before we came here, and I hope that everything will be here after we are gone." --Billy Proctor Along British Columbia's remote central coast lives Billy Proctor, a fierce mainlander who has spent his entire life on the water. He became a commercial fisher-man at age seven, selling his daily catch to his mother, a respected fishmonger. As his operation grew, so did his respect and understanding for the fish--how, when, and where to catch the thriving runs of Pacific salmon, oolichan, and herring. Eventually Billy came to realize that his beloved fish were vanishing--some to near extinction--and he understood that it was time to take action. Originally published in 1998 and now a Canadian bestseller, Billy's stories convey his profound respect and admiration for the lands and waters that he has spent his lifetime working on and fighting for. "Stories are what you need to hear--stories about people who have spent a lifetime living and working with nature. We owe a debt of thanks to Alexandra Morton, who vividly introduces us to this man, Billy Proctor. He has much to tell us with his life and words." --Robert Bateman
| Author | : Howard White |
| Publisher | : Harbour Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 1998-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780920080047 |
Download Raincoast Chronicles First Five Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A book that has become a west coast institution - articles, stories, poems, drawings covering every imaginable aspect of northwest history and folklore. The first five issues of "Raincoast Chronicles," dating back to 1972. Winner of the first Eaton's British Columbia Book Award, this is the innovative institution at the heart of BC regional publishing. Northwest history and folklore, unromanticized, in a unique magazine format, blending reminiscences, articles, drawings, photos. . . "The best source book available on Canada's west coast." -"Books in Canada" "Utterly absorbing. . . until "Raincoast Chronicles" came along the fabulous west coast rum-runners and ghost logging camps went unrecalled save in the dimming memories of oldtimers." -"Maclean's" "The magazine is a thoroughly professional production in terms of design, layout and graphics, and the quality of the writing is just as impressive." -"Quill and Quire" ""Raincoast Chronicles" reveals western identity. . . as dense as the undergrowth in the rainforest, and as richly alive." -"CBC Radio" "Still my favourite magazine" -Lorne Parton
| Author | : Margaret Craven |
| Publisher | : Dell |
| Total Pages | : 162 |
| Release | : 2017-11-14 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1101969539 |
Download I Heard the Owl Call My Name Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Amid the grandeur of the remote Pacific Northwest stands Kingcome, a village so ancient that, according to Kwakiutl myth, it was founded by the two brothers left on earth after the great flood. The Native Americans who still live there call it Quee, a place of such incredible natural richness that hunting and fishing remain primary food sources. But the old culture of totems and potlatch is being replaces by a new culture of prefab housing and alcoholism. Kingcome's younger generation is disenchanted and alienated from its heritage. And now, coming upriver is a young vicar, Mark Brian, on a journey of discovery that can teach him—and us—about life, death, and the transforming power of love.
| Author | : Travis Dandro |
| Publisher | : Drawn & Quarterly |
| Total Pages | : 367 |
| Release | : 2022-05-31 |
| Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
| ISBN | : 1770466460 |
Download Hummingbird Heart Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Still reeling from the death by suicide of his drug-addicted father, Travis moves in with his grandmother to become her caretaker as she battles cancer. Meanwhile, he tries to live a typical teen life of pulling pranks, occasional shoplifting, dating, and endless drives through the twisting backroads of Central Massachusetts with Nirvana’s Nevermind as the soundtrack. When the police intervene after a prank backfires, the boys realize that their time as children is rapidly disappearing and they may never fully understand each other as they move apart. After his Lynd Ward Prize-winning graphic novel, King of King Court, explored the power that parents hold over their children’s emotional lives, Travis Dandro employs his signature dream imagery and crass humor to tell the story of teenage independence and resilience as he prepares to head off to art school. Hummingbird Heart is a detailed and stylish account of a time of great uncertainty. Dandro’s densely crafted pages create a deeply emotional experience as his story swings from character confrontation to finely wrought domestic detail—a slapstick cafeteria-destroying brawl gives way to the beautifully rendered flight of the impossible hummingbird.
| Author | : Stephen Hume |
| Publisher | : Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Pub. |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : |
Download A Stain Upon the Sea Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Winner of the 2005 Roderick Haig-Brown BC Book Prize! Shortlisted for the 2005 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness!
| Author | : Marissa Meyer |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 449 |
| Release | : 2013-01-08 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1250007208 |
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Queen Levana is a ruler who uses her 'glamour' to gain power. but long before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress, Levana lived a very different story - a story that has never been told ... until now.
| Author | : Jacqueline Firkins |
| Publisher | : HMH Books For Young Readers |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Cousins |
| ISBN | : 1328635198 |
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Living with her aunt's family in Mansfield, Massachusetts, for a few months before turning eighteen and starting college, Edie is torn between Sebastian, the boy next door, and playboy Henry.
| Author | : Alexandra Morton |
| Publisher | : Vintage Canada |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2022-09-06 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0735279683 |
Download Not on My Watch Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada" because of her passionate thirty-year fight to save British Columbia's wild salmon. Her account of that fight is both inspiring in its own right and a roadmap of resistance. Alexandra Morton came north from California in the early 1980s, following her first love—the northern resident orca. Then, in 1989, industrial aquaculture moved into the region, chasing the whales away. Soon Alex had shifted her scientific focus to documenting the infectious diseases and parasites that pour from the ocean farm pens of Atlantic salmon into the migration routes of wild Pacific salmon, and then to proving their disastrous impact on wild salmon and the entire ecosystem of the coast. Alex stood against the farms, first representing her community, then alone, and at last as part of an uprising in which ancient Indigenous governance resisted a province and a country that wouldn't obey their own court rulings. She has used her science, many acts of protest and the legal system in her unrelenting efforts to save wild salmon and ultimately the whales—a story that reveals her own perseverance and bravery, but also shines a bright light on the ways other humans doggedly resist the truth. Here, she brilliantly calls those humans to account for the sake of us all.
