Ebook: Raincoast Chronicles. 23, Stories & history of the British Columbia coast

When the first edition of Raincoast Chronicles was produced by a couple of novice publishers in the unlikely location of Pender Harbour in 1972, it boldly announced that it was going “to put BC character on the record." Printed in sepia ink and decorated with the rococo flourishes characteristic of that extravagant era, the unclassifiable journal-cum-serial-book about life on the BC coast struck a nerve and in time became something very close to what it set out to be—a touchstone of British Columbia identity. Soon the term “Raincoast," which had been coined by the editors, was appearing on bo.;Introduction · Howard White; On Meeting Emily Carr · Mike McCardell; The Story of Princess Louisa Inlet · Howard White; Piling Blood · Al Purdy; The Simple Joy of Rain · Stephen Hume; Tofino's Fred Tibbs · Margaret Horsfield & Ian Kennedy; What the Sea Perhaps Heard · Rachel Rose; Cougar Hunt · Dick Hammond; What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck · Grant Lawrence; Japanese Fishers and World War Two · Masako Fukawa et al.; Harriet's Gravlax with Mustard Sauce · Andrea & David Spalding; Frenchy and Simpson · Edith Iglauer; Canada Day at Yuquot · Stephen Hume.