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    本书介绍加拿大的文学起源和发展,从最早的"入侵者"对加拿大文学起源的作用入手研究加拿大文学,视角新颖,对于加拿大文学的研究具有积极的意义。全书涉及文学、文化、科技、宗教、历史,涉及知识面广,书中记载了18世纪主要来自欧美的探险者和商人的"入侵"带给加拿大全新的科技、风俗和宗教等;他们所有的冒险经历铸就了这部代表着不列颠哥伦比亚文学史开端的读物,为加拿大的文学起源的背景梳理出了清晰的脉络。 ... Leer más

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  • Moon Madness

    Dr. Louise Aall, sixty years of healing in Africa

    de Alan Twigg ...
    Norwegian-born Dr. Louise Aall of Tsawwassen, B.C., studied medicine in Germany, France and Switzerland before working solo as an itinerant bush doctor in rural Tanganyika (now Tanzania). There she pioneered the treatment of epilepsy, establishing in 1959 her own remote clinic — which still exists today. She became the first Western physician to treat a variant of epilepsy that is now recognized ... Leer más

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  • First Invaders

    The Literary Origins of British Columbia

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    Series Libro 1 - The Literary Origins of British Columbia
    The names Cook and Quadra ring a bell for most of us, as do Bering and Vancouver, but how much do we know about the Greek-born navigator, Juan de Fuca or the Machiavelli of the maritime fur trade, John Meares? British Columbia's earliest authors and explorers are skilfully introduced, for the first time collectively, by Alan Twigg. This is a compelling account of the characters, events and ... Leer más

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  • Out of Hiding

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    A thorough collection and examination of stories and perspectives from the Holocaust-related books of British Columbia authors, including nearly 100 black and white photographs.Holocaust witnesses will soon cease to exist. As Tolstoy famously put it, what is to be done? One answer is Out of Hiding, a cross-section of stories collected from one region of the globe, British Columbia, Canada, ... Leer más

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  • Tibetans in Exile

    de Alan Twigg ...
    Alan Twigg has here recovered the amazing story of how George and Ingeborg while travelling in northern India in 1961 encountered many of the Tibetan refugees who had fled over the mountain passes. Appalled by the condition of the children, huddled together with inadequate bedding, surviving on a diet of thin soup and momos, steamed dumplings of mixed wheat and corn flour, they expressed their ... Leer más

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  • Undaunted

    The Best of BC BookWorld

    Edición de Alan Twigg ...
    For over a quarter century, many readers have agreed with legendary publisher Jack McClelland, who said, “I have never before encountered a book journal as engaging as BC BookWorld.” But over several decades, the populist style of BC BookWorld has tended to overshadow its literary value and its essentially educational agenda. Here in The Best of BC BookWorld is a sampling of articles that ... Leer más

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  • Essentials, The

    150 Great BC Books & Authors

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    From Franz Boas to Alice Munro: welcome to an unprecedented panorama of the most significant authors and books of British Columbia culled from Alan Twigg's unrivalled knowledge of more than two centuries of B.C. literary history. The Essentials is the new bible of who wrote what, and why, in B.C., produced with the cooperation of Simon Fraser University Library and UBC's Rare Books & Special ... Leer más

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  • Aboriginality

    The Literary Origins of British Columbia, Volume 3

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    Following the success of First Invaders (Ronsdale, 2004), Alan Twigg turns his attention to First Nations writers, unearthing more than 300 books by more than 170 mostly unheralded British Columbia aboriginal authors. Taking the reader from residential schools to art galleries, this lively and unprecedented panorama of British Columbia includes trailblazer Pauline Johnson, political organizer ... Leer más

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  • Thompson's Highway

    The Literary Origins of British Columbia, Volume 3

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    For his third volume about BC literary history, Alan Twigg traces the writings of David Thompson, Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser and thirty of their peers, mainly Scotsmen, who founded and managed more than fifty forts west of the Rockies prior to 1850. After the failure of Alexander Mackenzie and Simon Fraser to find a navigable route to the Pacific Ocean, it was the remarkable mapmaker, David ... Leer más

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    For thousands of young British girls, the influx of Canadian soldiers conscripted to Britain during the Second World War meant throngs of handsome young men. The result was over 48,000 marriages to Canadian soldiers alone, and a mass emigration of British women to North America and around the world in the 1940's.For many brides, the decision to leave their family and home to move to a country ... Leer más

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