About this title: In this groundbreaking portrait of the uneasy state of the province, Terry Glavin's lyrical narratives reveal the fibre of a British Columbia rarely glimpsed. With journalistic acumen, he surveys a landscape of inexorable suburban sprawl, dismantled railway lines, scapegoating of Native fisheries, and strange goings-on at Gustafsen Lake. A new ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New Star Books, Vancouver, British Columbia
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780921586524ISBN:0921586523
Description: Fine in hardcover in Fine dustjacket. 22 by 14 cm. 203 pages. New book. Beige cover with black lettering on spine. Pictorial dustjacket. Bright, clean. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New Star Books, Vancouver
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780921586524ISBN:0921586523
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. pp. viii [3] 203. "This Ragged Place will leave the taste of oolichan grease on your lips and the seeds of a transcendent new British Columbian mythology in your mind" read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New Star Books, Point Roberts, Washington, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780921586524ISBN:0921586523
Description: As New in As New jacket. 8vo. Signed pp. 203, black and white photographs. Signed by the author on the title page. "On the Fraser River, edgy fishermen await the runs of salmon and oolichan, while along both shores Vancouver's suburbs continue their relentless march upstream. On the Nass River, the Nisga'a negotiate British Columbia's first treaty in over a century. In downtown Vancouver, callers to hotline shows talk about their fears of Indians, of dying fisheries, of roadblocks. This is the ... read more
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