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From the queasy feeling that pioneer medicine inspires in Margaret McKirdy's \"The Doctor Book\" to Robin Ward's profile of Francis Rattenbury - British Columbia's favourite architect - whose chequered career ended in a classic \"Agatha Christie\" murder, to epidemiologist Douglas Hamilton's \"The Great Pox,\" which casts a horrifying perspective on the small pox epidemics that decimated BC's native peoples, this \u003ci\u003eRaincoast Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e treads lightly the thin line between life and death.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e But \u003ci\u003e17's\u003c\/i\u003e lighter side is just as strong. It \"rushes into history\" the bygone days of Opportunities For Youth grants, as Mark Bostwick recalls guiding hikers onto the newly-christened West Coast Trail in the summer of '72. Petra Watson celebrates Victoria's ground-breaking photographer Hannah Maynard, whose portraits of BC life from 1862 to 1912 have become invaluable artifacts of provincial history. Howard White takes us to the early days of the Sechelt Nation, when the great wooden city \u003ci\u003eKalpalin\u003c\/i\u003e gave Pender Harbour a bigger population than it has today. Native history and legend are recalled in Gilbert Joe's tale of the last battle between the Kwakiutl and the Sechelt, and in Dick Hammond's eerie true story of two hunters pitted against \"the-deer-that-is-not-a-deer.\" Along with Lynn Ove Mortensen on August Schnarr, Jack Springs' poignant tale of unrequited love on a fishboat, Paul Lawson's poem \"The Rock Bandits\" and Arthur Mayse's don't-try-this-at-home recipe for \"Donkey Boiler Coffee,\" \u003ci\u003eRaincoast Chronicles 17\u003c\/i\u003e is truly an issue to remember.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52681292218641,"sku":"NLS9781550171426","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781550171426.jpg?v=1762315202"},{"product_id":"raincoast-chronicles-fourth-five-book-howard-white-9781550173727","title":"Raincoast Chronicles Fourth Five","description":"By far the largest of the Raincoast Chronicles collections at 420 pages, \u003ci\u003eFourth Five\u003c\/i\u003e is living proof that some things just keep getting better. Containing thirty-two inimitable stories, poems and articles, the volume expounds on such diverse matters as supernatural deer, the cannery village of Ceepeecee, fishing-fleet superstitions and the coveted recipe for donkey boiler coffee. \u003cp\u003eWriters include coast favourites Howard White, Doreen Armitage, Tom Henry, Dick Hammond, Vickie Jensen and Bus Griffiths.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs a bonus, this collection includes two longer features: one on the history of Telegraph Cove, BC, by Pat Wastell Norris and one on the frontier women of BC by Stephen Hume. 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