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  • Moon Madness

    Dr. Louise Aall, sixty years of healing in Africa

    by Alan Twigg ...
    Norwegian-born Dr. Louise Aall of Tsawwassen, B.C., studied medicine in Germany, France and Switzerland before working solo as an itinerant bush doctor in rural Tanganyika (now Tanzania). There she pioneered the treatment of epilepsy, establishing in 1959 her own remote clinic — which still exists today. She became the first Western physician to treat a variant of epilepsy that is now recognized ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • First Invaders

    The Literary Origins of British Columbia

    Edited by Alan Twigg ...
    Series Book 1 - The Literary Origins of British Columbia
    The names Cook and Quadra ring a bell for most of us, as do Bering and Vancouver, but how much do we know about the Greek-born navigator, Juan de Fuca or the Machiavelli of the maritime fur trade, John Meares? British Columbia's earliest authors and explorers are skilfully introduced, for the first time collectively, by Alan Twigg. This is a compelling account of the characters, events and ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Out of Hiding

    Holocaust Literature of British Columbia

    by Alan Twigg, Yosef Wosk ...
    A thorough collection and examination of stories and perspectives from the Holocaust-related books of British Columbia authors, including nearly 100 black and white photographs.Holocaust witnesses will soon cease to exist. As Tolstoy famously put it, what is to be done? One answer is Out of Hiding, a cross-section of stories collected from one region of the globe, British Columbia, Canada, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Undaunted

    The Best of BC BookWorld

    Edited by Alan Twigg ...
    For over a quarter century, many readers have agreed with legendary publisher Jack McClelland, who said, “I have never before encountered a book journal as engaging as BC BookWorld.” But over several decades, the populist style of BC BookWorld has tended to overshadow its literary value and its essentially educational agenda. Here in The Best of BC BookWorld is a sampling of articles that ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Tibetans in Exile

    by Alan Twigg ...
    Alan Twigg has here recovered the amazing story of how George and Ingeborg while travelling in northern India in 1961 encountered many of the Tibetan refugees who had fled over the mountain passes. Appalled by the condition of the children, huddled together with inadequate bedding, surviving on a diet of thin soup and momos, steamed dumplings of mixed wheat and corn flour, they expressed their ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Essentials, The

    150 Great BC Books & Authors

    by Alan Twigg ...
    From Franz Boas to Alice Munro: welcome to an unprecedented panorama of the most significant authors and books of British Columbia culled from Alan Twigg's unrivalled knowledge of more than two centuries of B.C. literary history. The Essentials is the new bible of who wrote what, and why, in B.C., produced with the cooperation of Simon Fraser University Library and UBC's Rare Books & Special ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Aboriginality

    The Literary Origins of British Columbia, Volume 3

    by Alan Twigg ...
    Series Book 2 - The Literary Origins of British Columbia
    Following the success of First Invaders (Ronsdale, 2004), Alan Twigg turns his attention to First Nations writers, unearthing more than 300 books by more than 170 mostly unheralded British Columbia aboriginal authors. Taking the reader from residential schools to art galleries, this lively and unprecedented panorama of British Columbia includes trailblazer Pauline Johnson, political organizer ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Thompson's Highway

    The Literary Origins of British Columbia, Volume 3

    by Alan Twigg ...
    Series Book 3 - The Literary Origins of British Columbia
    For his third volume about BC literary history, Alan Twigg traces the writings of David Thompson, Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser and thirty of their peers, mainly Scotsmen, who founded and managed more than fifty forts west of the Rockies prior to 1850. After the failure of Alexander Mackenzie and Simon Fraser to find a navigable route to the Pacific Ocean, it was the remarkable mapmaker, David ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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    The Story of Joseph Beausoleil Broussard and Pierre II Surette 1702-1765

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    Heroes of the Acadian Resistance tells the unique and little-known story of the young men who led an Acadian resistance in 18th century Nova Scotia. They fought valiantly in a guerilla campaign against the British to save their homes and families from destruction and deportation.Their battle was against a form of ethnic cleansing that saw British soldiers burn every remnant of the Acadian ... Read more

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  • The Holocaust: History in an Hour

    by Jemma J. Saunders ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.The Holocaust, in which 11 million people died, was the largest atrocity of the 20th century and perhaps the hardest to understand. Approximately 6 million Jews and 5 million others including Roma people, Poles, Russian prisoners of war, political prisoners, homosexuals, people of colour, Jehovah's Witnesses, and various other minorities were ... Read more

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  • War Brides

    The Stories of the Women Who Left Everything Behind to Follow the Men They Loved

    by Melynda Jarratt ...
    For thousands of young British girls, the influx of Canadian soldiers conscripted to Britain during the Second World War meant throngs of handsome young men. The result was over 48,000 marriages to Canadian soldiers alone, and a mass emigration of British women to North America and around the world in the 1940's.For many brides, the decision to leave their family and home to move to a country ... Read more

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  • God's Hotel

    A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine

    by Victoria Sweet ...
    **Victoria Sweet's new book, SLOW MEDICINE, is on sale now!For readers of Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air, a medical “page-turner” that traces one doctor’s “remarkable journey to the essence of medicine” (The San Francisco Chronicle).**San Francisco’s Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hôtel-Dieu (God’s hotel) that cared for the sick in the ... Read more

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