Heart of the Raincoast

Availability:
Ebook in EPUB format. Available for immediate download after we receive your order

DRM:
Watermark

Publication Year:
2016

ISBN-13: 9781926971223

<p class="book_description"><b><i>Originally published in 1998, this updated edition has a brand-new cover and interior design, with a new foreword by Alexandra Morton.</i></b></p><p class="book_description">Billy Proctor was born in 1934 and has spent his entire life in a remote coastal community called Echo Bay, BC on an island off northern Vancouver Island. Proctor has always done the time-honoured work of generations of upcoast men&#8212;hand-logging, fishing, clam digging, repairing boats, beachcombing.</p><p class="book_description">But Billy eventually began to notice that the thriving runs of Pacific salmon, oolichans, and herring that he remembers from his early years were vanishing&#8212;some to near extinction&#8212;and he understood that it was time to take action.</p><p class="book_description"><i>Heart of the Raincoast</i> is the fascinating story of Billy Proctor&#8217;s life, and the wealth of knowledge and understanding that can only be gained from living in such close proximity to nature. The writing is funny, touching and honest&#8212;and offers an engaging insider&#8217;s view not only of the salmon, whales, eagles and independent people who populate Canada&#8217;s wild and lovely coastal rainforest, but on what we need to do to keep it as nature intended.</p>