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To Be a Warrior: The Adventurer Life and Mysterious Death of Billy Davidson
To Be A Warrior chronicles the life of wilderness adventurer Billy Davidson (1947-2003), a rock climbing mountaineer and ocean kayaker who spent the last thirty years of his life alone on various small islands in...
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Mischief Making: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Art and the Seriousness of Play
Celebrated contemporary Haida artist, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas has produced a diverse body of work ranging from ink drawings to large scale mixed media sculptures to totem poles. The artist is best known for inventing a...
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On the Cusp of Contact: Gender, Space and Race in the Colonization of British Columbia
No other historian has been able to capture the unique history and diversity of British Columbia as University of British Columbia professor emeritus Jean Barman, whose brilliant career is encapsulated in a select collection of...
BC Studies no. 211 Autumn 2021 | Page(s) 137-138
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Paradise Won: The Struggle to Create Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve
Knowing that Paradise Won: The Struggle to Create Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve would end in the establishment of a park offers no relief from the sense of urgency that reading the book elicits. Usually,...
BC Studies no. 210 Summer 2021 | Page(s) 118-119
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Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers of British Columbia
The revised third edition of Kilian Crawford’s ground-breaking book on BC’s Black pioneers is timely and essential reading. It is a critical corrective to omissions and erasure in both academic histories and in popular understandings,...
BC Studies no. 209 Spring 2021 | Page(s) 131-132
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Captain Cook Rediscovered: Voyaging to the Icy Latitudes
On 12 July 1776 Captain James Cook, Royal Navy, sailed from Plymouth, England, in the three-master collier, Resolution, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. It was a voyage that swept Cook and the crews...
BC Studies no. 209 Spring 2021 | Page(s) 135-136
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Complicated Simplicity: Island Life in the Pacific Northwest
Complicated Simplicity is a collection of essays, personal and expository, that explore the nature of living on secluded (non-ferry-serviced) islands within the Southwestern part of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest (and further abroad too)....
BC Studies no. 208 Winter 2020/21 | Page(s) 144-145
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Love of the Salish Sea Islands: New Essays, Memoir and Poetry by 40 Island Writers
The Salish Sea is an international ecosystem that features an amazing array of gorgeous and largely tranquil islands. Tourists and residents enjoy the rural simplicity of the islands and from most appearances, the living is...
BC Studies no. 205 Spring 2020
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“Opposition on the Coast”: The Hudson’s Bay Company, American Coasters, the Russian American Company, and Native Traders on the Northwest Coast, 1825-1846
Jim Gibson has assembled a collection of primary sources: 27 documents from Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) archives, British Columbia provincial archives, and microfilm of Russian-American Company (RAC) records from the US National Archives. A significant...
BC Studies no. 206 Summer 2020 | Page(s) 121-122
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Sailing with Vancouver: A Modern Sea Dog, Antique Charts and a Voyage Through Time
In Sailing with Vancouver, the late maritime writer Sam McKinney follows the path of Capt. George Vancouver’s 1792 expedition through the Pacific Northwest’s inland waters. Part saltwater travelogue, part historical reflection, McKinney uses the region’s...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 151-153
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Following the Curve of Time: The Untold Story of Capi Blanchet
Cathy Converse’s Following the Curve of Time: The Untold Story of Capi Blanchet is a companion piece to Blanchet’s coastal travelogue The Curve of Time and one that enriches its reading. Both monographs offer detailed accounts of...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 153-154
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Raven Walks Around the World
In Raven Walks Around the World, Henley shares parts of his personal journey of activism, travel, and life long work with Indigenous peoples around the world. Through his stories, Henley illuminates the determination of all...
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 180-181
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Christy Clark: Behind the Smile
According to Judi Tyabji this is “not an authorized biography. In fact, it’s not really a biography at all because she’s still premier.” Rather, it is “a book about Premier Clark written by someone who...
BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 170-171
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A Taste of Haida Gwaii: Food Gathering and Feasting at the Edge of the World
There is an alternative out there to the globalized world of agribusiness, GMOs (genetically modified organisms), and processed packaged food, one based on harvesting and using local, especially wild, foods and re-weaving them into our...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 197-200
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