Raincoast Chronicles Fourth Five: No. IV: Stories and History of the BC Coast: Collectors Edition IV -- Stories & History of the BC Coast - Hardcover

9781550173727: Raincoast Chronicles Fourth Five: No. IV: Stories and History of the BC Coast: Collectors Edition IV -- Stories & History of the BC Coast

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1550173723 ISBN 13: 9781550173727

Publisher: Harbour Publishing, 2005

By far the largest of the Raincoast Chronicles collections at 420 pages, Fourth Five is living proof that some things just keep getting better. Containing thirty-two inimitable stories, poems and articles, the volume expounds on such diverse matters as supernatural deer, the cannery village of Ceepeecee, fishing-fleet superstitions and the coveted recipe for donkey boiler coffee.

Writers include coast favourites Howard White, Doreen Armitage, Tom Henry, Dick Hammond, Vickie Jensen and Bus Griffiths.

As a bonus, this collection includes two longer features: one on the history of Telegraph Cove, BC, by Pat Wastell Norris and one on the frontier women of BC by Stephen Hume. The book is illustrated in characteristically extravagant fashion with drawings and archival photos.

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Review:

" Raincoast Chronicles Fourth Five allows the reader to feel the hardships and triumphs of BC men and women from the pioneer era to the modern day, and resonates with a tenacity of character and human spirit." - Sharon Stuart, Midwest Book Review

""Raincoast Chronicles Fourth Five" allows the reader to feel the hardships and triumphs of BC men and women from the pioneer era to the modern day, and resonates with a tenacity of character and human spirit."
--Sharon Stuart, "Midwest Book Review"

"By far the largest of the collections at 420 pages, "Fourth Five" is living proof that some things just keep getting better. Containing 32 inimitable stories, poems and articles from issues sixteen to twenty, the volume expounds on such diverse matters as supernatural deer, the cannery village of Ceepeecee, fishing-fleet superstitions and the coveted recipe for donkey boiler coffee. Writers include coast favourites Howard White, Doreen Armitage, Tom Henry, Dick Hammond, Vickie Jensen and Bus Griffiths."
--"Fisherman Life"

""Fourth Five" has just the right measure of irreverence that keeps local history moving. Subjects are deeply plumbed and present, with rare honesty, the several streams of our heritage... Addictive reading."--Sara Cassidy, "Focus""This is another must-have for the libraries of anyone fascinated by the colourful and dramatic history of the BC Coast."--"Wavelength Magazine""Invaluable as an entertaining and a readable historical resource."--Cherie Theissen, "Mariner Life" "Beautifully done."--Annie Boulanger, "Burnaby NOW""A wonderfully rich and varied account... outstanding."--Jocelyn Smith, "BC Studies"

"Fourth Five has just the right measure of irreverence that keeps local history moving. Subjects are deeply plumbed and present, with rare honesty, the several streams of our heritage... Addictive reading."
--Sara Cassidy, Focus

"This is another must-have for the libraries of anyone fascinated by the colourful and dramatic history of the BC Coast."
--Wavelength Magazine

"Invaluable as an entertaining and a readable historical resource."
--Cherie Theissen, Mariner Life

"Beautifully done."
--Annie Boulanger, Burnaby NOW

"A wonderfully rich and varied account... outstanding."
--Jocelyn Smith, BC Studies

-Fourth Five has just the right measure of irreverence that keeps local history moving. Subjects are deeply plumbed and present, with rare honesty, the several streams of our heritage... Addictive reading.-
--Sara Cassidy, Focus

-This is another must-have for the libraries of anyone fascinated by the colourful and dramatic history of the BC Coast.-
--Wavelength Magazine

-Invaluable as an entertaining and a readable historical resource.-
--Cherie Theissen, Mariner Life

-Beautifully done.-
--Annie Boulanger, Burnaby NOW

-A wonderfully rich and varied account... outstanding.-
--Jocelyn Smith, BC Studies

About the Author:

Howard White was born in 1945 in Abbotsford, British Columbia. He was raised in a series of camps and settlements on the BC coast and never got over it. He is still to be found stuck barnacle-like to the shore at Pender Harbour, BC. He started Raincoast Chronicles and Harbour Publishing in the early 1970s and his own books include A Hard Man to Beat (bio), The Men There Were Then (poems), Spilsbury's Coast (bio), The Accidental Airline (bio), Patrick and the Backhoe (childrens'), Writing in the Rain (anthology) and The Sunshine Coast (travel). He was awarded the Canadian Historical Association's Career Award for Regional History in 1989. In 2000, he completed a ten-year project, The Encyclopedia of British Columbia. He has been awarded the Order of BC, the Canadian Historical Association's Career Award for Regional History, the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, the Jim Douglas Publisher of the Year Award and a Honorary Doctorate of Laws Degree from the University of Victoria. In 2007, White was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He has twice been runner-up in the Whisky Slough Putty Man Triathlon.

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