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Winging Home: A Palette of Birds 2006

 

A portrait of birds and the people who watch them on the Cariboo Plateau. There are fifty species of birds in this book, all precisely and uniquely observed over a period of thirteen years. This is a book from the heart, , and the story of learning wildness. It is also alternatingly very funny and haunting in its beauty. Just like the birds

Illustrated by Tom Godin

 

            

               
                  

               		
               
                  

                  
                  
               		
            

         

         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         

      		
   









   

      
         

      		
      
         
Tom
         Thomson's Shack 2000

         
         
 

         
         
Portraits of people and landscapes
         in the Interior of British Columbia and Toronto, which
         together form a portrait of the country of Canada -- one
         that, impossible as it sounds, unites us rather than divides
         us. Buddhist monks discover the centre of the universe in
         B.C.'s Bonaparte Plateau. Buddhist beekeepers, farmers,
         bankers, fly fishermen, native story-tellers, cowboys,
         ranchers, all tell their story.

         
         
 

         
         
Nominated for the Hubert Evans
         Non-Fiction Prize and the Roderick Haig Brown Regional
         Prize.

         
         
 

         
         
A Cross-Country Checkup Book of the
         Year.

         
         

      		
      
         

      		
      
         

      		
   









   

      
         

      		
      
         
Out
         of the Interior, 1993

         
         

         
         
Prose Memoir of post-colonial,
         immigrant orchard life in British Columbia. At the same
         time, it is the story of one man's journey from the
         patriarchy and the prisons of history. Innovative in form,
         this book has been called "as good as anything out of
         Provene." (Patrick
         Lane)

      		
      
         

      		
      
         

      		
   















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The Wolves at Evelyn,
         September 2006

         
         

         
         
This is the sequel to Out of the
         Interior. This is a woman's story. It portrays two British
         Columbias, the official one and the one in which we live,
         and shows how the living (and voiceless one) is rooted in
         female experience, stretching back for generations in Canada
         and Europe. A journey through baroque images of paradise, to
         scorpions in the Okanagan Valley, to wolves stalking my
         mother in Evelyn, B.C. in 1947, this is a book of love, for
         people, for history, for place.

      		
      
         

      		
      
         

      		
   







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