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The Land Trust Alliance of BC and Touchwood Editions is pleased to announce the release of the 2nd printing of The Islands in the Salish Sea, A Community Atlas.
Order directly through LTABC. Individual orders: 45.00 plus postage.
Retail: contact info at landtrustalliance.bc.ca – usual industry discounts apply.
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FROM THE GALA DINNER EVENT, April 29, 2006
The Islands in the Salish Sea: A Community Atlas
by Sheila Harrington, Judi Stevenson, Kathy Dunster
and TouchWood Editions in the opinion of the
judges of the BC Book Prizes merits distinction
as one of the five best works published in British
Columbia this year.
The
Islands in the Salish Sea: A Community Atlas,
by Sheila Harrington, Judi Stevenson and Kathy Dunster
in the opinion of the judges of the BC Book Prizes
merits distinction as one of five works contributing
most to an appreciation of British Columbia published
this year.
- WINS 3rd
PRIZE!
For the 2005 BC Historical Federation Book Writing
Competition On British Columbia History - April
12, 2006.
At
Last! A wider audience can now appreciate the love
and painstaking work of over 3,000 islanders, from
Saturna to Cortes.
Edited by Sheila Harrington and Judi Stevenson, Preface
by Robert Bateman, Forward by Briony Penn, History by
Kathy Dunster.
The
islands in the Salish Sea are widely celebrated for
their beauty, rare ecology and peaceful, rural communities,
special qualities that also make them a magnet for growing
numbers of tourists and new residents. This unusual
atlas presents a fascinating and visually stunning picture
of a region richly endowed and inviting but also vulnerable.
The Islands
in the Salish Sea Community Mapping Project engaged
over 3,000 people and involved everything from school
kids with clipboards to oral history with elders to
reviews of scientific data. More than 30 local artists
then brought these layers of accumulated information
to life in unique and remarkable maps.
Their loving
and painstaking work is showcased in this atlas, accompanied
by accounts of how each map came to be. Additional chapters
describe the origins and strengths of a new discipline,
artistic community mapping, the unfolding of the mapping
project from first spark to proud finale and the history
and character of the islands.
“I had
no idea maps could be like this!”
From
the guest book at an exhibition of the maps.
