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Raincoast chronicles six/ten  Cover Image Book Book

Raincoast chronicles six/ten / edited by Howard White.

Summary:

"The second five issues of the west coast's own journal Raincoast Chronicles collected in one fascinating volume. PLUS... a spectacular full-colour selection featuring paintings of the BC coast by world-renowned artist E.J. Hughes. Over thirty historical articles along with fiction, poetry, reviews, remarkable photographs and beautiful line drawings. Some of the authors represented are Earle Birney, M. Wylie Blanchet, Hubert Evans, Jack Hodgins, Edith Iglauer, W.P. Kinsella, Dorothy Livesay, Pat Lowther, Susan Musgrave, John Skapski, Jim Spilsbury, Peter Trower, Sean Virgo, Howard White and George Woodcock. Truly a book to cherish and savour for years to come."-- from publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780920080726
  • ISBN: 0920080723
  • ISBN: 9781550170672
  • ISBN: 1550170678
  • Physical Description: 287 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm.
  • Edition: Collector's edition II.
  • Publisher: Madeira Park, British Columbia : Harbour Publishing, 1992, 1983.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Part of the Raincoast chronicles series.
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Foreword / Paul St. Pierre -- Number Six: Roses in December: Memories of the Charlottes / Viola Wood -- Mother Holly (fiction) / Sean Virgo -- Mill Town (poem) / Pat Lowther -- Lost in the Rain forest / Alex Kean -- Seagulls (poem) / Dorothy Livesay -- No Flood Here / Ian McKechnie -- Monologue at Sea (poem) / John Skapski -- The Written Woods / Peter Trower -- The Day Joey Came (fiction) / Howard White -- Booby-Trap (poem) / Peter Trower -- Now You're Loggins (illustrated fiction) / Bus Griffiths -- Book Reviews: A Very Ordinary Life by Rolf Knight / reviewed by Howard White -- Amor de Cosmos by George Woodcock / eviewed by Robert Wishlaw -- The Cowichan by Doris Day / reviewed by Peter Trower -- Whistle up the Inlet by Gerald A. Rushton and The Princess Story by Norma A. Hacking and W. Kaye Lamb / reviewed by Howard White -- Shadow Shamans (poem) / by Susan Margrave -- High Country Burn / Peter Trower -- Book Review: Stevenson by Daphne Marlatt and Robert Minden / reviewed by John Skapski. Number Seven: Ryuichi Yoshida: An Issei Life / Rolf Knight and Maya Koizummi, ed. John Skapski -- The Gumboot Navy / Capt. Donald Peck, ed. Peter Trower -- The Shakers / Yvonne Klan -- Now You're Logging (illustrated fiction) / Bus Griffiths -- Sailing on the St. Roch / Bill White and Howard White -- Remembering Roderick Haig-Brown / George Woodcock -- Book Reviews: Smoke from Their Fires by Clellan S. Ford/ reviewed by Rolf Knight -- Spit Delaney's Island by Jack Hodgins / reviewed by John Faustmann -- Steveston Recollected by Daphne Marlatt / reviewed by John Skapski -- Images: Stone: B.C. by Wilson Duff / reviewed by Mark Budgen -- Back Roads of B.C. by List and Jack Bryan / reviewed by Frank White -- First Approaches to the Northwest Coast by Derek Pethick / reviewed by Mark Budgen -- Lucy Moon, Last of the Longheads (poem) / Lois Gubbe -- Outhouse (poem) / Peter Trower -- Nothes & Queries. Number Eight: (drawing) / Stephen Jackson -- The Brunette 1890-1979 / Howard White -- Floatplanes and Snow / Jim Spilsbury and Howard White -- Fog (poem) / Hubert Evans -- The Lookout Tree / Peter Trower -- The little bear that Runs up Trees / George Woodcock -- Gun-an-noot (ppoem) / George Woodcock -- Sweet Wort and Sour Krout / Thom Stitt -- Moon Down Elphinstone (poem) / Earle Birney -- Book Review: Now You're Logging by Bus Griffiths / reviewed by Anthony Robertson -- Now You're Logging: The Old Chinese Shinglebolt Camp / Bus Griffiths -- Book Reviews: Deep Line by Kevin Roberts, Endings by Hubert Evans, Bush Poems by Peter Trower / reviewed by Ira Bruce Nadel -- From Desolations to Splendour by Maria Tippett and Douglas Cole / reviewed by Andrew Scott -- Emily Carr by Doris Shadbolt / reviewed by John Faustmann -- Smoke in the Hills (fiction) / Myrtle Bergren -- Things Unsaid (poem) / John Skapski -- "If such a frightful apendage can be called ornimental..." / Beth Hill -- Summer Runs Down Creeks (poem) / Julia Moe -- "Capi" Blanchet / Edith iglauer -- Henry Finds the Roar / M. Wylie Blanchet -- Sailing a Tow / Capt. Don Peck -- Notes & Queries -- Kyuquot Dream: Running the Outside Down (poem) / John Skapski. Number Nine: Gastown: Everybody Knew Everybody / Joe Simson -- The Pork-Pie Hat / D.W. Higgins -- The Wreck of the Beaver / Joe Simson -- Vancouver's First Airplane / henry Hoffar -- Steveston 1926 / Hubert Evans -- Will Vivian, Pioneer Engine Builder / David Conn -- Tools of Power / Bill White and Howard White -- Old Coal Harbour / David Conn -- Letter to Malcolm Lowry (poem) / Peter Trower -- Hauling Around Town / Frank White and Rolf Knight -- QCA, the Accidental Airline / Jim Spilsbury and Howard White -- Ducharme: Anatomy of a Legend / Howard White -- Annie of the Corridors (poem) / Peter Trower -- Eli Visits the Big Smoke (fiction) / Hubert Evans -- Book Reviews: Indians at Work by Rolf Knight / reviewed by Jim Mortimore -- The Protected Place by Gilean Douglas / reviewed by Howard White -- Mostly Coast People (poems) / Hubert Evans. Number Ten: The bible Barge to Kingdom Come / Gilean Douglas -- The Starfish Telegraph / C.H. Doane -- Searching for cape St. Elias: An Alaskan Odyssey / Gwyn Gray Hill -- The Pocahontas Caper / Steward Brinton -- The Bomb that Mooed: Memories of a Logging Camp Childhood / Howard White -- The Third Stiff (poem) / Howard White -- The Trials of Triangle Island and Other Lighthouse Disasters / Don Graham -- Bunkhouse Betty (fiction) / Pat Jackson -- E.J. Hughes: Painter of the Raincoast / Patricia Salmon and Leslie Forsyth Black -- Eustace Smith: The Last Authority / David Day -- Country of the Bull (poem) / Peter Trower -- The Cadborosaurus Meets Hubert Evans / Howard White -- Marco in Paradise (fiction) / W.P. Kinsella -- Book Reviews: Against Wind and Weather by Ken Drushka / reviewed by Fred Rogers -- The Men There Were Then by Howard White / reviewed by Dale Zieroth -- Mostly Coast People by Hubert Evans / reviewed by Margaret Laurence -- Index.
Additional Physical Form available Note:
Search also under Raincoast chronicles (Collector's ed).
Subject: Frontier and pioneer life > British Columbia.
Indigenous peoples > British Columbia > History.
Indians of North America > British Columbia > Addresses, essays, lectures.
British Columbia > History.
Topic Heading: Northwest History Collection.
Frontier and Pioneer Life - B.C.
British Columbia History

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  • 11 of 11 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 2 of 2 copies available at Prince Rupert Library.

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Prince Rupert Library 971.1 Rain 6-10 (Text) 33294002078178 Adult Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
Prince Rupert Library NWHC 971.1 Rain 6-10 (Text) 33294000217554 Northwest History Collection - Non-Circulating Not holdable Available -


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