Once They Were Hats : In Search of the Mighty Beaver - Softcover

Frances Backhouse

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1770412077 ISBN 13: 9781770412071

Publisher: ECW Press, 2015

Synopsis

Beavers, those icons of industriousness, have been gnawing down trees, building dams, shaping the land and creating critical habitat in North America for at least a million years. They were once one of the continent's most ubiquitous mammals. Then the European fur traders arrived. In Once They Were Hats, Frances Backhouse examines humanity's 15,000-year relationship with Castor canadensis, and the beaver's even older relationship with North American landscapes and ecosystems. Along the way she discovers how we can learn to live with beavers as they return.

About this title

Review:

"Fascinating and smartly written." --Globe and Mail

"Backhouse's history of the web-footed mammals that have a historic tie to Canadian identity makes for unexpectedly delightful reading." --National Post's Best Books of 2015

About the Author:

Frances Backhouse is the author of five books, including Children of the Klondike, winner of the 2010 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. She is also a veteran freelance magazine writer and teaches creative nonfiction at the University of Victoria. She lives in Victoria, B.C.

About this edition

• Publisher: ECW Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1770412077
• ISBN 13: 9781770412071
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256