Covers different aspects of northwest history and folklore.
A sensible approach to good eating and good health. -Dr. Ingrid Pincott, R.N., N.D.
Made into the movie, Navigating the Heart, starring Jaclyn Smith and Tim Matheson. Shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction and the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction BC Book Prize.
Jeanne Marie's books pave the way by telling you how to cook properly for a better quality of life. -Dr. Patrick Keefe, DC, Doctor of Education
Intended for lovers of coast lore or those who want to know what it's like there, this work is a large-format hardcover with over 300 black-and-white photographs. The award-winning writing of Howard White is well represented here, and there are contributions from a host of others who have made and lived BC coast history.
Focuses on Pacific Northwest wild flowers, and offers coverage that ranges from the Bachelor's Button and the Lady's Smock to Mouse-ear Chickweed and Rabbit-foot Clover. This book contains over 550 colour plates, accompanied by botanical and historical information on 782 species and sub-species of the flowering plants of the Pacific Northwest.
Whales of the West Coast is the whale book we have been waiting for. -Anne Moon, Victoria Times-Colonist Excerpted in Canadian Forum
If you want to read some decent strong human stuff without fakery I'd say Al Purdy the Canadian. . . one of the few very good poets since 1900. -Charles Bukowski Purdy is one of the most substantial poets in English of the century. -Dennis Lee
Writer Joe Barber-Starkey tells Jason's adventure so every reader will feel the loss of his canoe. . . [with] the vitality of the stylized pictures in easy conjunction with the words. . .scenes of total bliss. - National Post
Produced out of the author's familiarity with the treaty process, and with the players who took part in the monumental campaign - particularly Chief Joseph Gosnell, one of the most respected First Nations leaders.
Lucy Haley is forced from her Chicago home and placed with a grandmother she has never met. Despite this alien setting, she learns to love both her grandmother and her new home. But when Lucy becomes pregnant, she has no one to turn to. This is a story of one girl's journey from the innocence of childhood to the experience of motherhood.
Detailing the politics and the decisions that led to the creation of Trans Canada Airlines, to its metamorphosis into Air Canada, this book is packed with photos, and interviews with pilots, flight attendants and other employees, quotes from TCA staff newsletters, excerpts from the company's annual reports and letters from passengers.
The spellbinding and uplifting story of one woman's life in the raw wilderness.
In this funny and heart-wrenching new novel by Anne Cameron - bestselling author and veteran warts-and-all chronicler of the contemporary West Coast family - the characters grapple with the very meaning of the word family, just by living their lives.