One River, Two Cultures is a well-researched history told in an accessible, conversational style from the point of view of a visitor utterly swept away by the natural beauty of the Bella Coola Valley and the friendliness of its full-time residents.

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In this book, based on archival research, oral interviews, memory and personal experience, Chris Whatley explores the history of the tiny island jewel of Pabay, and the people for whom it has been home, to create a vivid picture of the trials, tribulations and joys of island life.

(Paperback)

Nearly 1,000 place names in San Antonio inform and delight

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(Paperback)

Features articles, stories, tales, photographs, and drawings by people who know and love the raincoast. This work includes topics like bush pilots and lightkeepers to logging and fishing. Contributors include: Howard White, Barry Coulson, Rolf Knight, Florence Tickner, and Paula Wild.

Presents a cornucopia of coast history - Saturna Island in the old days, One-Arm Willy and the tattooed lady and the strong man, Dr Darby at Bella Bella, how telephone communication came to the rugged BC coast, stories of bears and the Union Steamships, and more.

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The Wastell family had much to contend with on a daily basis. Besides running a sawmill and surviving in very un-genteel circumstances, Norris's mother, a registered nurse, was the only source of medical help in the community. Norris's memoir is a portrait of upcoast life between the wars.

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From the feeling that pioneer medicine inspires in Margaret McKirdy's "The Doctor Book" to Robin Ward's profile of Francis Rattenbury, to epidemiologist Douglas Hamilton's "The Great Pox", which casts a horrifying perspective on the small pox epidemics that decimated BC's native peoples, this work treads the thin line between life and death.

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Where land meets sea, strange things happen, and most of them end up as stories. From a study of log barging on the BC coast to a controversial essay on who really shelled the Cape Estevan lighthouse in 1942, this compilation delivers a portrait of BC's maritime history.

Presents a depiction of British Columbia's past. This work contributes a history of squatters in Vancouver, from the Dollarton squat that Malcolm Lowry made infamous to the Finn Slough squat on the Fraser River. It includes Keith Hancock's story of Boat Harbour, BC's capital of the bizarre.

(Paperback, First paperback edition 1992)

Contains the second five issues of the west coast's journal "Raincoast Chronicles". This volume includes a full-colour selection featuring paintings of the BC coast by world-renowned artist, E J Hughes. It includes over thirty historical articles along with fiction, poetry, reviews, photographs, and line drawings.

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San Antonio's surprising and dramatic history told as one story for each day of the year

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Colorful tales of San Antonio's most memorable characters

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The rise of mechanized transportation in San Antonio

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Vintage postcard portrait panoramas of San Antonio that illustrate a city's transition into modern times

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More than 100 photographs of San Antonio's UNESCO World Heritage Site

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More than 100 photographs of San Antonio's UNESCO World Heritage Site

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Stanley Park was born alongside the city of Vancouver, so it is easy to assume that the park was a pristine wilderness when it was first created. Working in collaboration with descendants, this title brings together family stories with archival documents, Vancouver Parks Board records, and court proceedings to present a facet of BC's history.

(Paperback, New edition)

After retirement from a career in medicine, the author turned his acute and wide-ranging mind to the study of the history and traditions of his native Lewis. With over sixty essays on people, places and tradition, this title reveals a range of the author's erudition, and informs his love and deep knowledge of his native island.

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Originally published: Santa Fe, N.M.: New Mexican Print. and Pub. Co., 1882.

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(Paperback)

This is the story of a village in East Anglia, astride its common stream, a saga of continuity and change which stretches back across a landscape of two thousand years

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A journey through time: from a scattering of cottages along a pre-roman horse track, to a medieval parish and staging post for travellers, onwards into a prosperous Tudor village favoured by gentlemen for their country seats and an 18th century resort of pleasure gardens eventually transformed by a warren of railway lines.

Shortlisted for the Lakeland Book of the Year.The Fresh and the Saltis abeautifully written natural history of the Solway Firth, one of the largest estuaries in Europe, told through the people whose lives are linked to the firth and the enormous wealth of wildlife that call it home.