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Here on the Coast : reflections from the Rainbelt / Howard White.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, Howard, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manners and customs.
- Sunshine Coast (B.C.)--History--Anecdotes.
- Sunshine Coast (B.C.).
- White, Howard, 1945---Anecdotes.
- White, Howard.
- White, Howard, 1945-.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (160 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing, [2021]
- Summary:
- Howard White offers humour-laced sketches of small-town life on the BC Coast.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Introduction
- I. A Non-Place on the Map
- Getting to Know Us
- Fishy Business
- What's in a Name?
- A Tough Time for Trees
- Zero Gardening
- The Electric Diary
- The Boating Life
- Confessions of a Home Handyman
- Climate Talk
- Talking Hard Times
- II. The Only Chance These Things Will Ever Have to Be in a Book
- The Great Getaway
- A Coaster Discovers Scotland
- Trading in the Rain
- A Swan among the Seagulls
- History vs. Hotdogs
- Sex on the Sunshine Coast
- Hollywood Comes to Bute Inlet
- Good Wood
- The Princess
- III. On These Accordioned Shores
- The Kleins and Their Dale
- Libraries under Fire
- Pete the Poet
- The Unlikely Cannabis Guru
- Echoes of the Great War
- The Music Bug
- Novice Writer at Ninety-Nine
- Bard of the Woods
- So You Think You Had a Bad Trip on the Ferry?
- Magic in the Mountains
- IV. Nothing Can Be Too Big of a Deal If It's Happening Here
- When the Cat Does Not Come Back
- Hijacked in Mexico
- The High Cost of Hesitation
- The Great Undoing
- Fixed-Link Follies
- The Arts
- The Great Canadian Biffy
- Of Grizzlies, Oilers, Pigs and Wacey Rabbit
- Luddite's Lament
- Raised in Pender Harbour
- V. Scientifically Enlarging the Facts
- Searching for a Coastal Icon
- Spring and All
- Muse in Caulk Boots
- Roaring Bullheads, Brainfarts and Baseball
- Early Computers of the Sunshine Coast
- Undiscovered Miltons
- Halloween People
- Waste Wars
- Water, Water
- Restricted Visibility
- Munga's Meadows
- Shadows in Our Sunshine
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-55017-925-X
- OCLC:
- 1221003791
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