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The Salish Sea: Jewel of the Pacific Northwest
Audrey DeLella Benedict and Joseph Gaydos’s book about the Salish Sea, like Beamish and McFarlane’s recent tome on the Strait of Georgia (or North Salish Sea), The Sea Among Us, is a gorgeously illustrated and...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 205-206
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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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The Sea Among Us: The Amazing Strait of Georgia
Much of my critique of Beamish and McFarlane’s The Sea Among Us is that familiar reviewer’s refrain: they didn’t write the book that I would have. With the luxury of a dozen different writers, I...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 151-52
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The Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries
Books that are compilations of papers given at conferences, such as this one, can be rather disjointed, often with only a few chapters of interest to each individual reader. This is an exception to that...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 146-48
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Bluebacks and Silver Brights: A Lifetime in the BC Fisheries From Bounty to Plunder
For sixty years the Campbell Avenue fish dock on Burrard Inlet was the hub of Vancouver’s fishing industry, home to numerous fish plants, smokehouses, and floats where the boats tied up. The Safarik family business,...