Paradise Won; The Struggle for South Moresby
by May, Elizabeth E
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0771057725
- ISBN 13
- 9780771057724
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart [0-7710-5772-5] 1990, 1st edition. (Hardcover) 318pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Map, photographs. The dust jacket is price-clipped. "In the fall of 1974, the chains saws that had already clear cut vast stretches of British Columbia's rain forests were suddenly pointed towards the unique, remote forests of South Moresby on the Queen Charlotte Islands. The Haida Nation and other residents of the islands quickly mobilized to save the area from destruction. They thought it would take a year or two. It took fourteen". Locale: British Columbia; Queen Charlotte Islands; South Moresby--British Columbia; Western Canada. (Western Canada, Environmentalism, Forests--Old Growth, Haida Indians, Logging, Political Activism, Politics--Canada).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 152332
- Title
- Paradise Won; The Struggle for South Moresby
- Author
- May, Elizabeth E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0771057725
- ISBN 13
- 9780771057724
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- This edition first published
- 1990
- Keywords
- Western Canada, Environmentalism, Forests--Old Growth, Haida Indians, Logging, Political Activism, Politics--Canada
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- CANADIAN HISTORY;
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