DAYLIGHTING CHEDOKE: EXPLORING HAMILTON'S HIDDEN CREEK. by Terpstra, John. Signed - 2018

Hamilton, Ontario: James Street North Books / Wolsak and Wynn , 2018. 133 pp, 8 1/2" H. Map endpapers. Signed by author on title page. "Chedoke is one of six creeks that weave their way through Hamilton (Ontario), but it is the most hidden, lost to culverts and concrete. It sees daylight only in a couple of waterfalls where the creek flows over the edge of the Niagara Escarpment and in a short canal where it runs alongside Highway 403. In elegant, seamless prose award-winning author John Terpstra attempts to trace Chedoke's afflicted waters back to their source, searching through historical archives and city documents, and even walking up the great storm drains that collect the water that spills from the escarpment. (This) is a moving meditation on how urbanization and industrialization have literally buried our natural environment and what it would be like to free our creeks and reconsider our relationship with nature." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very minor rubbing.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.