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The big swim : coming ashore in a world adrift / Carrie Saxifrage.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Gabriola Island, BC : New Society Publishers, [2015]Distributor: Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2015Description: 1 online resource (x, 181 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • electronic
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781550925920
  • 155092592X
Other title:
  • Coming ashore in a world adrift
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Big Swim : Coming Ashore in a World Adrift.DDC classification:
  • 333.72092 23
LOC classification:
  • GE56.S29 A3 2015eb
Other classification:
  • cci1icc
  • coll11
  • coll13
Online resources:
Contents:
The big swim -- Pumpkin people -- Hare -- Hail Mary, shining sea -- Deep blueberry gestalt -- Lagomorphic resonance -- The oolichan and the snake -- Nectar -- Falling into place -- Journey to Numen Land -- River creatures -- The scallop and the chickadee -- Climate change 101 : the basics -- Book group discussion guide for The big swim.
Summary: Carrie Saxifrage is a journalist and author whose work on First Nations responses to the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline has garnered significant critical acclaim. Her research and analytic skills were honed over the course of a successful career as an environmental lawyer in the US. Now she writes for the Vancouver Observer and homesteads on a remote BC island. Carrie's pursuit of adventure and love of nature has taken her up mountains like the Matterhorn and Chimborazo. In 2006 she committed herself to the most life-affirming adventure yet: a low carbon lifestyle.
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The big swim -- Pumpkin people -- Hare -- Hail Mary, shining sea -- Deep blueberry gestalt -- Lagomorphic resonance -- The oolichan and the snake -- Nectar -- Falling into place -- Journey to Numen Land -- River creatures -- The scallop and the chickadee -- Climate change 101 : the basics -- Book group discussion guide for The big swim.

Carrie Saxifrage is a journalist and author whose work on First Nations responses to the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline has garnered significant critical acclaim. Her research and analytic skills were honed over the course of a successful career as an environmental lawyer in the US. Now she writes for the Vancouver Observer and homesteads on a remote BC island. Carrie's pursuit of adventure and love of nature has taken her up mountains like the Matterhorn and Chimborazo. In 2006 she committed herself to the most life-affirming adventure yet: a low carbon lifestyle.

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