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High Boats: A Century of Salmon Remembered
The commercial salmon fishery has recently inspired a spate of books on the fading of the salmon industry. This volume fits into that literature. Among its special virtues are its basis in a specific area...
BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | Page(s) 127-8
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The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577-1580
This book represents an expanded form of the much debated revelations of Samuel Bawlf concerning the Pacific Ocean explorations of Francis Drake during his 1577–80 voyage of circumnavigation. Parts of the voyage account are well known,...
BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 101-3
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A Voyage to the North West Side of America: The Journals of James Colnett, 1786-89
JAMES COLNETT will always remain a name of notoriety in world history for it is he who responded to Commandant Esteban Martinez’s demands and formalities at Nootka Sound in 1789 and started, so it is...
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 131-3
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The Last Island: A Naturalist’s Sojourn on Triangle Island
ONE OF THE SALIENT features of British Columbia’s geography is its myriad coastal islands. Among the wildest and most remote of these, the ecological reserve Triangle Island lies in the open Pacific Ocean thirty miles...
BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Page(s) 212-3
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Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers
THE IDEA OF a story being as sharp as a knife, which is the title of Robert Bringhurst’s astonishing introduction to the works of classical Haida poets, is a useful proposition to consider in order...
BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Page(s) 181-4
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Natural Light: Visions of British Columbia
THIS COFFEE TABLE BOOK is a jewel of photographs captured by the author after long hours of waiting for “the moment” or when he just happened to see light and colours juxtaposed perfectly. The accompanying...
BC Studies no. 142-143 Summer-Autumn 2004 | Page(s) 322
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Emerging from the Mist: Studies in Northwest Coast Culture History
IN ORGANIZING this collection of papers on late-period Northwest Coast archaeology, R.G. Matson, in his introduction to this edited volume, proposes to make Northwest Coast archaeology more visible in the literature alongside the prominent ethnographic...
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 136-9
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Haida Gwaii: Human History and Environment from the Time of the Loon to the Time of the Iron People
This edited volume, which consists of sixteen chapters plus two fore words, a preface, and a conclusion, has twenty-nine contributors. Its focus is the Parks Canada Gwaii Haanas Archaeology and Paleoecology project, which reports primarily...
BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007 | Page(s) 120-2
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Pioneers of the Pacific: Voyages of Exploration, 1787-1810
In 2002, the National Maritime Museum in London published Captain Cook in the Pacific, introduced by Glyn Williams, with the succeeding chapters written by Nigel Rigby and Pieter van der Merwe. The present book by...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 135-7
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Raven Travelling: Two Centuries of Haida Art
A book of this kind – large and sumptuous, rich with colour photo graphs of historical and more recent Haida art from the Northwest Coast, and featuring a dozen essays by Haida and non-Native contributors...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 117-9
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Recording Their Story: James Teit and the Tahltan
Judy Thompson, Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC) Curator of Western Subarctic Ethnology, has produced a lavishly illustrated book, compelling for its quality of images, clarity of writing, and elegance of design. Seventy-one rarely published and...
BC Studies no. 158 Summer 2008 | Page(s) 118-20
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Islands of Truth: The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 129, Spring 2001
BC Studies no. 129 Spring 2001 | Page(s) 94-7
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The Land of Heart’s Delight: Early Maps and Charts of Vancouver Island
As a subject for cartography and historical geography, Vancouver Island has many attractions. Islands are uniquely advantaged in this regard, bordered as they are by waters and seas. The Enlightenment demanded scientific designations and definitions...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 148-49
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Russian America: An Overseas Colony of a Continental Empire, 1804-1867
In this important book, Ilya Vinkovetsky of Simon Fraser University places the story of Russia’s American experiment fully within the history of colonialism. Russian America was a unique colonial adventure, he argues, in which the...