The Protected Place is a timeless and absorbing book. Within the framework of a calendar of the year, the author describes life at her isolated waterfront homestead on Cortes Island, British Columbia. Combining close observation of the natural world with reflection, research, vignettes of rural life and local history, this book is a celebration of place written by a woman deeply connected to the landscape by love and experience. Gilean Douglas was born in 1900 and lived to be 93. A poet, journalist, naturalist, farmer and feminist, her writing spans almost the entire twentieth century. The Protected Place, her classic depiction of coastal life, was first published in 1979.

“Douglas's words flow as if she were writing us a letter; she tells of the life around her in simple and lovely detail and moves us with her own deep attachment to the land.”-Pauline Carey, Canadian Book Review Annual

With an afterword by Andrea Lebowitz and Gillian Milton, authors of Gilean Douglas: Writing Nature, Finding Home.

Nature Writing, 150 pp, 5˝ x 8˝
ISBN 0-9686933-1-8, paper, $15.99