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Sunshine Coast: Od Gibsons do Powell River Howard White

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The Sunshine Coast: From Gibsons to Powell River By Howard White
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Bardzo dobry: Książka była czytana i nie wygląda jak nowa, ale jest nadal w doskonałym stanie. ...
Title
The Sunshine Coast: From Gibsons to Powell River
ISBN
9781550170818
EAN
9781550170818
Book Title
Sunshine Coast : from Gibsons to Powell River
Item Length
11in
Publisher
Harbour Publishing Company, The Limited
Publication Year
1996
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
0.5in
Author
Howard White
Genre
Travel, History
Topic
Canada / General, Canada / Western Provinces (Ab, BC)
Item Width
8.5in
Item Weight
32.9 Oz
Number of Pages
128 Pages

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British Columbia's Sunshine Coast is a sublimely scenic 160-kilometre stretch of waterfront between Howe Sound and Desolation Sound, reached by a 40-minute ferry ride from West Vancouver. Join Howard White, award-winning humorist and lifelong coast denizen, on a guided tour from Gibsons, where the long-running TV series The Beachcombers was filmed, to Powell River, the largest community in the region. Along the way, sojourn in Roberts Creek, whose patron saint, the irrepressible Harry Roberts, invented the name "Sunshine Coast." Stop over in Sechelt, named for the Shi'sha'lh or Sechelt Nation who once occupied the bulk of the Sunshine Coast territory. Follow the seriously twisty highway to visit Pender Harbour, where some local fishing folk still do their Saturday shopping in kicker boats. Drop anchor in Princess Louisa Inlet, and discover why the likes of John Barrymore and Andrew Carnegie once came to marvel at its canyon-like splendour. With paintings by local artists, poems by local poets, tall tales by local characters, miracles by Sechelt medicine men, tips on predicting the weather, a fair share of risqué gossip about historical figures, a good mix of bold opinions and hard facts and over 150 beautiful colour photographs, The Sunshine Coast is a book to be treasured, not just by residents and visitors, but by anyone with an eye for fascinating places. First published in 1996, this fully revised edition contains updated text and all new photographs of coast life from the area's most talented photographers including Dean van't Schip and Keith Thirkell.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Harbour Publishing Company, The Limited
ISBN-10
1550170813
ISBN-13
9781550170818
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1110509

Product Key Features

Book Title
Sunshine Coast : from Gibsons to Powell River
Author
Howard White
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Canada / General, Canada / Western Provinces (Ab, BC)
Publication Year
1996
Genre
Travel, History
Number of Pages
128 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
11in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
8.5in
Item Weight
32.9 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
F1089.S94w47 1996
Photographed by
Van't Schip, Dean, Thirkell, Keith, Forest, Allan
Edition Description
Unabridged Edition
Edition Number
3
Table of Content
CONTENTS The Sunshine Coast The Gibsons Area The Sechelt Area The Pender Harbour Area Jervis Inlet The Powell River Area INTRODUCTION UNTIL THE 1980S the sublimely scenic 100-mile stretch of shoreline along the eastern side of Georgia Strait known as the Sunshine Coast enjoyed a blessed obscurity that allowed its forty-thousand-odd residents to indulge their oddness to the fullest. The area has a reputation for being the maverick among British Columbia's favoured south coast regions and seems to rejoice in it. In the past twelve provincial elections, the Sunshine Coast has voted against the government of the day nine times, a contrariness which has rewarded the area with some of the twistiest sections of Highway 101 north of Guatemala. The oddball image works for geography as well as politics. It's not an island, but you have to take a ferry to get therefive different ferries if you want to see all of it. Local developers have spent years dreaming of bridges, tunnels, overland links and fast commuter ferries aimed at breaching the isolation of the Sunshine Coast while the old-time residents were just as determinedly trying to preserve it. The split between those who wish to conjoin with the growth convulsing BC's Lower Mainland just across the water and those who want to preserve the coast's quiet backwater status provides the spark that animates local politics. At one point in the early 1990s the area was served by no fewer than nine regularly published newspapers, and still there was never enough room to carry all the letters to the editor that flare up around such issues as improving the Westview-Comox ferry service or allowing the first McDonald's restaurant onto the Sechelt Peninsula. Being neither fish nor fowl from a geographic standpoint, the Sunshine Coast lacks some of that romantic aura that attracted urban hordes to the true islands of the Gulf, leaving the area to evolve in its own way. Among those in the know it has long been seen as a haven where people might do their own thing in their own time with a minimum of interference from the outside world. This has made it a refuge for painters, writers, hermits, handloggers, stumpranchers, trappers, prospectors, fishermen, and draft dodgers of every war since the original of the Egmont Jeffries jumped ship during the 18 5 9 Pig Wars in the San Juan Islands. They and other fugitives from the twentieth century established a string of quiet little villages whose names, from Hopkins Landing to Secret Cove to Gillies Bay, reflect their salty sense of self-possession. It took until the mid-1980s for the area's attractions to be discovered in a major way, and by the early 1990s the Sunshine Coast was the fourth fastest-growing residential area in BC, to the chagrin of many of those longtime seekers of peace and quiet. But it remains one of the few places within commuting distance of Vancouver where you can still experience some of the sights and scents of the oldtime BC coast of the steamships and the stumpranches, the float camps and the fish plants. Villages like Lund and Pender Harbour still cling to their rocky shorelines like a fringe of storm-tossed driftwood, connected by red-railed boardwalks; Gambier and Savary Island children still ride to school in sea-going schoolbuses; and tide-borne seaweed, shovelled into gunny bags and wheeled up the beach trail in the wheelbarrow, is still the fertilizer of choice for home vegetable gardens throughout the region.
Copyright Date
1996
Lccn
97-114165
Dewey Decimal
971.1/31
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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