Author: HORSFIELD, MARGARET
Title: Voices from the Sound Chronicles of Clayoquot Sound and Tofino, 1899
Description: Nanaimo, BC: Salal Books, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0969700822. Only slight wear ; Imprints of the signatures of the local personages above and below an early representations of scenes from the area on front and back end papers. B&W illustrations throughout. ; B&W Illustrations; 365 pages; This history of Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island is made up of the stories of the individuals who settled there, the settlers, sealers, prospectors, natives, schoolchildren and priests among others. "As the sealing industry declined, whaling, logging and fishing began to thrive, steamships from Victoria regularly visited this previously isolated coast." Margaret Horsfield has drawn on letters and historical documents to give these people their voices.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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