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Points of Interest

In Search of the Places, People, and Stories of BC

David Beers, Andrea Bennett (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2024
Greystone Books,Canada (Verlag)
978-1-77840-138-1 (ISBN)
18,65 inkl. MwSt
Take a trip across British Columbia with this enchanting collection of essays from thirty local writers.

What makes wandering the vibrant land called British Columbia really special? Encounters with locals who are ready to share, over a coffee or a beer, quirky tales and powerful truths rooted in place and time. Consider this book a meet-up with 30 such storytellers, the perfect road companion for your journey real or imagined. The Tyee is the province’s oldest and most-read independent source of online news and ideas, renowned for its range of voices on politics, culture and nature.

This anthology marking The Tyee’s 20th anniversary includes pieces published over the last two decades and includes the distinct perspectives of some of the region’s most celebrated writers, including J.B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith, Cúagilákv (Jess H̓áust̓i), Arno Kopecky, Harrison Mooney, Michelle Cyca, Christopher Cheung, Andrew Nikiforuk, and many more, as well as illustrations by Nora Kelly. Pull up a chair and get their inside scoops on the places they call home.

David Beers is editor-in-chief at The Tyee. He started the publication in 2003 as an experiment in new ways of doing online journalism in the public interest. He has lived in Vancouver since 1991. andrea bennett is The Tyee's senior editor. bennett is based in the Ayjoo Mixw area of what is currently known as Powell River, B.C., where they enjoy baking, gardening and cold ocean swims.

Creston—"The Great Arrow Creek Disaster"
Dorothy Woodend



Krestova—"Newcomers to Doukhobor Territory"
Leesa Dean

Okanagan Indian Band Reserve—"'Everything Is Burning and Your House Is Gone'"
Michelle Gamage

Osoyoos Desert—"To Honour the Lost, a Cattle Drive"
Kate Helmore

Agassiz—"The Art of Growing Wheat in the Rain"
Christopher Cheung

Abbotsford—"The Blacker the Berry"
Harrison Mooney

Surrey—"Tending the Fields of Resistance"
David P. Ball

Granville Island—"Amidst the Tourists, Creating a 'Landscape of Fear'"
Michelle Cyca

Vancouver—"Dumplings for a New Year"
Fiona Tinwei Lam

Vancouver—"Elegy for a Building Manager"
Steve Burgess

Richmond—"The Golden Village at the Edge of the Ocean"
Christopher Cheung

Pender Harbour—"A Beachcomber's Love Story"
Abi Hayward

Lasqueti Island—"A Wild and Woolly Issue"
andrea bennett

Saturna Island—"The Worst Windstorm in BC Hydro's History"
Sofia Osborne

Thetis Lake Park—"How I Salvaged My Sense of Wonder"
Tim B. Rogers

Victoria—"More Deadwood Than Downton Abbey"
Tom Hawthorn

Fairy Creek—"Three Days in the Theatre of an Old-Growth Blockade"
Arno Kopecky

Port Alberni—"Residential School Perverted Everything That Was Beautiful"
Meghan Mast

Cumberland—"This Is Homecoming"
Michael John Lo

Campbell River—"Fishing in the Haig-Brown Library"
Andrew Nikiforuk

Tofino—"When a Trip to the Post Office Takes Half a Day"
Karen Charleson

Tahsis—"At Canada's End of the Road"
Ben Mussett

San Josef Bay—"The Riddle of the Monkey Puzzle Tree"
Neil Griffin

Bella Bella—"Winter Is For Regeneration"
​'Cúagilákv (Jess H̓áust̓i)

Atlin—"Serving the Cranberry Crowd"
Fiona McGlynn

Smithers—"All A'bored the Skeena Train"
Amanda Follett Hosgood

Devil's Elbow—"The 100-Mile Diet Goes North"
J.B. MacKinnon and Alisa Smith

Ootsa Lake—"The World's Most Remote Brewery?"
Amanda Follett Hosgood

Chilcotin—"To the Tŝilhqot'in, With Gloves"
Ian Gill

Xwísten—"A Fraser Full of Fish No More?"
Colleen Kimmett 

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo Full color illustrations throughout
Sprache englisch
Maße 139 x 215 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Essays / Feuilleton
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Journalistik
ISBN-10 1-77840-138-4 / 1778401384
ISBN-13 978-1-77840-138-1 / 9781778401381
Zustand Neuware
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