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Fortune's a River: The Collision of Empires in Northwest America by Barry Gough Publisher Comments Winner of the John Lyman Book Award for best Canadian navel and maritime history Finalist for the Nereus Writers'Trust Non-fiction Award Finalist for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize, BC Book Prize Longlisted for the 2007 Victoria Butler Book Prize... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Desolation Sound: A History by Heather Harbord Publisher Comments Beautiful Desolation Sound, 150 km north of Vancouver, has for many years been the most popular cruising destination on the BC coast, but is today almost as devoid of local occupants as it was in 1792 when the dyspeptic Captain George Vancouver gave it... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Voyages of Hope: The Saga of the Bride-Ships by Peter Johnson Publisher Comments A line of nervous young women got off a ship in Victoria Harbour in 1862 and had to walk the gauntlet between two rows of jostling, eager men. One girl, proposed to on the spot, accepted equally quickly and left town with her new husband. Why did these... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $8.87 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Pepper in Our Eyes: The Apec Affair by W. Wesley Pue Publisher Comments In November 1997, the world media converged on Canada to cover a meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation in Vancouver. A student protest met unusually strong police response. Among many others, a news cameraman was pepper-sprayed by an irate... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $8.08 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound by Grant Lawrence Publisher Comments From Captain George Vancouver to Muriel "Curve of Time" Blanchet to Jim "Spilsbury's Coast" Spilsbury, visitors to Desolation Sound have left behind a trail of books endowing the area with a romantic aura that helps to make it British Columbia's most... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Trade Paper
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Unsettled Boundaries: Fraser Gold and the British-American Northwest by Robert E Ficken Publisher Comments Responding to reports of gold discoveries on the Fraser River, thousands of prospectors from California and other points on the Pacific coast crossed the 49th parallel to British territory in 1858. Most returned to San Francisco and Puget Sound later in... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Crazy Man's Creek by Jack Boudreau Publisher Comments In Crazy Man's Creek, author Jack Boudreau tells of the characters who have "caught the fever" in the rugged McGregor Mountain Range east of Prince George. Long recognized as some of the toughest bush in British Columbia, it was home to many who chose to... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nuk Tessli: The Life of a Wilderness Dweller by Chris Czajkowski Synopsis At once a riveting adventure story and a testament to one woman's resourcefulness, Nuk Tessli is also a heartfelt elegy to the true wilderness and a cry for it's sensible use.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Vancouver's Old-Time Scoundrels: An Amazing Stories Book (Amazing Stories Series) by Jill Foran Publisher Comments An Amazing New Series! Dedicated to stories and story-telling from past to present, Amazing Stories tell of the many adventures that happen to the famous, the infamous and just to us. These books are both long enough to tell a good story with a sense of... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $2.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Just East of Sundown Queen Charlotte Isl by Charles Lillard Publisher Comments On Haida Gwaii, human occupation goes back some 9,000 years, with hints of a people there before. Lillard tells the story of these islands, through explorers and settlers to the present day.... (read more) Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Far West: The Story of British Columbia by Daniel Francis Publisher Comments British Columbia's colourful story has been told many times, but until now no one has attempted to relate the chronicle specifically for young readers. From the gold rush to the Gumboot Navy and from "brideships" to W.A.C. Bennett, BC history comes alive... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price: $13.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Militant Minority: British Columbia Workers and the Rise of a New Left, 1948-1972 by Benjamin Isitt Publisher Comments Militant Minority tells the compelling story of British Columbia workers who sustained a left tradition during the bleakest days of the Cold War. Through their continuing activism on issues from the politics of timber licenses to global questions of war... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Trade Paper
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Pepper in Our Eyes: The APEC Affair by W Wesley Pue Publisher Comments In November 1997, the world media converged on Canada to cover a meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation in Vancouver. A student protest met unusually strong police response. Among many others, a news cameraman was pepper-sprayed by an irate... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Salmon by Geoff Meggs Publisher Comments Salmon: The Decline of the British Columbia Fishery is about both the fishery and the resource, as the one depends on the other. And that story — from the beginnings of the industry with the export of salted salmon in the 1830s and the canning for... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Rancher Takes a Wife by Richmond P Hobson Publisher Comments Told with wit and wisdom, this is Hobson's tale of bringing his city-bred interior-decorator bride to the harsh life of the British Columbia Interior.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wilderness Dreams by Jack Boudreau Publisher Comments Jack's fourth book documents the amazing adventures of the Bowden family in the rugged wilderness of British Columbia's interior. It is largely based on 40 years of diaries kept by Liza Bowden.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Spilsbury's Coast: Pioneer Years in the Wet West (Spilsbury Saga) by Jim Spilsbury Publisher Comments When Jim Spilsbury, B.C's most famous pioneer entrepreneur, teams up with master storyteller and literary craftsman Howard White, the result is a spell-binding romp up and down British Columbia's rugged coast; eighty years of fascinating anecdotes and... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Totem Poles and Tea by Eldon Lee Synopsis In 1935, a young woman left the comfort and security of home to take her first job in an isolated village, which was the home of the Mamalilikulla people and two dedicated English ladies who operated a small mission outpost and preventorium for children... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Slumach's Gold: In Search of a Legend by Rick Antonson Publisher Comments Slumach's Gold was a Canadian bestseller when it was first published in 1972. This 35th-anniversary edition greatly expands the original, bringing new research, fascinating updates and fresh insights.Slumach's Gold chronicles what is possibly Canada's... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Jedediah Days: One Woman's Island Paradise by Mary Palmer Publisher Comments British Columbia's Jedediah Island is now a popular marine park, 640 acres of natural splendour tucked in between Texada and Lasqueti islands in the Strait of Georgia. But when Mary Palmer and her husband purchased the island half a century ago, they... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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