The Airplane Ride - Hardcover

White, Howard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0889712247 ISBN 13: 9780889712249

Publisher: Nightwood Editions, 2006

Synopsis

A child's experience of his first airplane ride across Canada!

About this title

About the Authors

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.

Greta Guzek is a painter currently living on the Sunshine Coast.

Edition details

• Publisher: Nightwood Editions
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0889712247
• ISBN 13: 9780889712249
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Guzek Greta
• Number of pages: 32