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| Title: | Hammerstone
: A Biography of Hornby Island, Second Edition |
| Author: | Olivia Fletcher |
| ISBN: | 1896300456 : 9781896300450 |
| Illustrations: | b/w illus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 156 |
| Weight: | .216 Kg. |
| Published: | Newest Press - July 2003 |
| List Price: | 12.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | American history: Historical geology: Canada |
This book follows Hornby Island from its molten birth in the South Pacific to the present. In a carefully woven narrative, Fletcher tells the tale of an island in the Gulf of Georgia on the West Coast of Canada. The story starts nearly 350 million years ago. It has not ended. This is a book about time: geological, mythical, cyclical, and the present. In geological time, the journey begins underwater and takes us north on the back of a moving Pacific Ocean plate. Millions of years later we emerge on an island where dinosaurs feed on gingko and cycad trees, and carnivorous snails search the sea floor for food. Much later, following earthquakes, four ice ages and four interglacials, we attend a Coast Salish festival where we dance, and feast on whale meat.
