Imagining British Columbia : land, memory & place

Summary: There are 20 contemporary writers featured in this anthology of British Columbia. Their essays and memoirs have been inspired by, or are in some way affected by, the particular "sense of place" that sets that left-hand corner of the country apart from other provinces.

Record details

ISBN: 9781895636901
ISBN: 9781895636901 (pbk.)
ISBN: 1895636906
ISBN: 1895636906 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
211 p. ; 21 cm.
Publisher: Vancouver : Anvil Press, c2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Creative nonfiction from the Federation of British Columbia Writers" - cover.

Formatted Contents Note:

How we imagine ourselves / Howard White -- Fraser Canyon summers / A.S. Penne -- In front and behind / Shannon Cowan -- Tapping for roots / Victoria Marvin -- Working the Seiners in Barkley Sound / Trevor Carolan -- Grizzlies on the Atnarko / Dawn Service -- Hidden water / Harold Rhenisch -- An immigrant's song / Margaret Thompson -- The secret lives of litterbugs / M.A.C. Farrant -- Going upriver and deep into the past / George Fetherling -- The dogs of Rome -- Trisha Cull -- Snowloads and landmarks / Elizabeth Templeman -- Kitsilano : birth of an art sleuth / Mona Fertig -- Ship of fools / Pauline Holdstock -- My father's gift / Luanne Armstrong -- Beside an ocean, under a sky / Pam Galloway -- But the kids hated Bowen / Jan Drabek -- The ghost wharf / Deanna Kawatski -- Offshore / Joan Skogan -- Landed immigrant / Katherine Gordon.