Vancouver Island Letters of Edmund Hope Verney
Regular price
€90.99
Category=DNBH1
Category=NHK
Category=NHTB
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9780774805544
- Weight: 640g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1996
- Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
This previously unknown collection of letters lets us experiencecolonial British Columbia through the eyes of a young British navalofficer who spent three years on Vancouver Island commanding a RoyalNavy gunboat during the Cariboo gold rush.
A keen observer of life in the new world, Edmund Hope Verneycorresponded on a regular basis with his father, a prominent BritishMP. In his letters, which are filled with lively narration anddescription, candid commentary, and fascinating personal detail, hetalks about having 'the opportunity to observe a colony in [itsfirst] stage of existence' and to 'watch the development of acommunity.'
Allan Pritchard is Professor Emeritus of English,University of Toronto. He was born and grew up in Comox and now divideshis time between Victoria and Galiano Island.
