Author: BOWERING, GEORGE
Title: Bowering's B.C. : A Swashbuckling History
Description: Toronto: Viking Penguin, 1996. First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0670857572. 416 pages including bibliography and index. Acknowledges that the province on the far left of the map has always been a pretty strange place, but it also tells a serious story of touchy race relations, heroic men and women, and the kind of romance that makes sensible people want to write books. It's a new kind of history - intensely personal, impeccably researched, intentionally provocative, unexpectedly spiritual, and laugh-out-loud funny - that encourages us to question received wisdom and ponder the elusiveness of history. Book clean and unmarked with moderate wear and slight lean to spine. Dust jacket with closed tear to top of back panel and moderate edgewear with one or two chips missing. Solid copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Bowering's B. C. : A Swashbuckling History 416 pages including bibliography and index. Acknowledges that the province on the far left of the map has always been a pretty strange place, but it also tells a serious story of touchy race relations, heroic m. Good in Good dust jacket .

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