Gabriola Petroglyph Island
Mary Bentley
and Ted Bentley
Native Indian rock art, the petroglyph, is found all over the Northwest coast and is one of the least understood cultural legacies of Northwest coast native people. Gabriola Island is home to numerous ancient petroglyph sites, and Mary and Ted Bentley have spent close to a quarter of a century investigating them. Their book was first published in 1981, selling through two printings. This is a completely revised edition, including new photographs, rubbings, and text.
History/Ethnography, 152 pp, 6 × 9, 135+ photos, rubbings
ISBN 1-55039-085-6, paper, $14.95
The Geography of Memory
Recovering Stories of a Landscape's First People
by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes
In a quest for understanding, the author of this richly illustrated and informative book set out to find the lost story behind the Sinixt First Nation, also known as the "Arrow Lakes Indians," a tribe of the Upper Columbia Basin. With the help of members of the Sinixt Nation, who were declared "extinct" in 1956 by the Federal Government, Pearkes travelled, researched and interviewed her way through a course of discovery in a personal account that has a reverence for the land and its first peoples. The compact, full-colour book contains a wild-food plant chart, rare archival photographs, place name maps and illustrations.
First Nations, History • 96 pp
ISBN 0-9731222-0-X • softcover • $19.95
Historic Guide to Ross Bay Cemetery
Victoria, BC, Canada
John Adams
A must-have for anyone interested in the history and design of late-Victorian-era cemeteries and monuments. Located in Victoria, British Columbia, Ross Bay Cemetery has been in use for 125 years and was designated a Heritage Site in 1997. This revised, extensively illustrated edition contains sixty new gravesite entries plus new research on the architecture, landscape design, and history of Ross Bay Cemetery and the surrounding neighbourhood.
History, 48 pp, 7.5 x 10, 49 b/w photos, maps
ISBN 1-55039-091-0, paper, $9.95
In Search of the Narrow Gauge
Bob Whetham
A wonderful selection of narrow gauge railways from around the world and some great travel adventure as Bob Whetham hiked, rode, flew and bartered his way in to photograph them. Seventeen countries in all, including Peru, Argentina, China, India and Wales. Spectacular colour and b/w photographs.
Railway/Travel, 108 pp, 8.5 x 7, 120+ b/w and colour photos, illustrations, and maps
ISBN 1-55039-069-4, paper, $19.95
Plants of Haida Gwaii
Nancy Turner
Haida Gwaii is the traditional name for that beautiful group of islands, sometimes called the Queen Charlottes, off the northern mainland coast of British Columbia. For thousands of years these islands have been the home of the Haida. Plants of Haida Gwaii, written with the cooperation and collaboration of the Haida, is a detailed and insightful record of the uses and importance to the Haida of over 150 species of native plants. Moreover, it explains the knowledge and understanding that enabled the Haida to use the resources of their islands, sustainably from one generation to the next for thousands of years. Beautifully illustrated with over 200 colour and black & white photographs and illustrations, this book is at once beautiful and informative, captivating and thought provoking.
Ethnobotany • 256 pp • 6.5 x 9.5
ISBN 1-55039-144-5 • hardcover • $38.95
The Protected Place
Gilean Douglas
“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
Nature Writing, 150 pp, 5˝ x 8˝
ISBN 0-9686933-1-8, paper, $15.99
Silence is My Homeland
Gilean Douglas
In 1939, Gilean Douglas turned her back on the comforts of urban life and settled into a small miner's cabin in a remote and inaccessible area of the Cascade mountains of British Columbia. She spent close to a decade there, living a simple life in close harmony with nature and savouring the completeness that solitude brings.
In Silence Is My Homeland, Gilean Douglas shares with the reader her satisfaction in the essential tasks of daily life and celebrates her connection with the natural world. First published in 1978, this timeless account of a life in the wilderness is a classic of B.C. nature writing, as fresh and relevant as when it was first written.
Nature Writing, 144 pp, 5˝ x 8˝
ISBN 0-9686933-0-X, paper, $15.99
The Garden That You Are
by Katherine Gordon
Photography by Rod Currie and Quinton Gordon
If gardening is a cycle of growth, enrichment, decay, and rebirth, so is the nature of humanity: in our societies, our cultures, and our relationships. For the gardeners among us, it's more than an analogy. Our gardens and our lives are inextricably intertwined. Who we are; where we were born; our heritage; our family and friends; the events in our lives—all play a role in the daily experiences on the piece of land we call our garden. That piece of land we have chosen (or which, in some cases, has chosen us) will in turn influence who we are, our relationships, and the events in our lives. Such is the culture of gardeners.
192 pp • 8 x 9
ISBN 1-55039-160-7 • hardcover • $28.95
full colour
