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Bluebacks and Silver Brights

A Lifetime in the B.C. Fisheries from Bounty to Plunder

By: Norman Safarik,Allan Safarik

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Bluebacks and Silver Brights

A Lifetime in the B.C. Fisheries from Bounty to Plunder

By: Norman Safarik,Allan Safarik

A captivating memoir set during the pinnacle of West Coast fishing More than a history of the Vancouver fishing industry, Bluebacks and Silver Brights is a collection of great adventures set on the Pacific coast. With dozens of salty tales of hardworking and hard-living fisherman and fish industry workers, this is Norman Safarik’s story of West Coast fishing from the Gulf of Georgia to Prince Rupert, with a detour to New York’s old-time fish markets. With wisdom and insight, Safarik’s story is also an ecological warning, recalling the lost bounty of Canada’s natural resources of a century ago, and their possible extinction today at the hands of government mismanagement and overfishing.

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462

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ECW Press

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ISBN 10

1770901833

ISBN 13

9781770901834

Bird Writer's Handbook

By: Allan Safarik

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Bird Writer's Handbook

By: Allan Safarik

In this new collection of taut lyric poems, the poet engages the living and the dead through a bird's-eye view--a normal world in all its surreality, brilliantly seen by one of the country's most individual men of letters.

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144

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Exile Editions, Ltd.

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ISBN 10

1550965689

ISBN 13

9781550965681

Swedes' Ferry

By: Allan Safarik

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Swedes' Ferry

By: Allan Safarik

Continuing its tradition of publishing first novels by establishe dpoets, Coteau presents the story of Constable Leslie Simpson,a Manitoba member of the North-West Mounted Police, who takes a day off to make a quick buck south of the border, and winds up battling to stave off the intentions of not only a very nasty Pinkerton agent, but the third-richest man in the United States. When Simpson robs the First National Bank in Bismark, North Dakota, inadvertently killing the bank manager in the process, the chase is on, across much of the Canadian prairies and the northern American plains. The bank happens to be owned by Canadian-born James J. Hill, the real-life railroad millionaire who is named in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Hill crisscrosses the plains on his recently-completed Great Northern Railroad, with his opera singer and dominatrix travelling companions. He’s used to getting what he wants and keeping what he has. So when he loses his Great Northern payroll in Bismark, what he most wants is for the vicious William Pinkerton and his sleazy henchman Jiggs Dubois to bring him the head of the varmint that took it.This is fascinating historical fiction, full of detailed information about the prairie border country, the people, the horses, and the weaponry,as well as the customs and cultural peccadilloes of the day in neighbouring nations that are developing in very different ways.

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230

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Coteau Books

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155050746X

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9781550507461

Swedes' Ferry

By: Allan Safarik

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Swedes' Ferry

By: Allan Safarik

An historically accurate novel about an international showdown between police forces, and at the same time a picaresque tale of cops and robbers and life along the Canada/US prairie border at the end of the 19th Century. Swedes' Ferry is the story of Constable Leslie Simpson, a Manitoba-born member of the North-West Mounted Police, who takes a little time off from his day job to make a quick buck south of the border, robbing the First National Bank in Bismarck, North Dakota. When he gets away with the Great Northern Railroad payroll, but inadvertently kills the bank manager in the process, he winds up battling to stave off the intentions of not only a very nasty Pinkerton agent, but the third-richest man in the United States. The chase is on, across much of the Canadian prairies and the northern American plains, because the bank happens to be owned by Canadian-born James J. Hill, the real-life railroad millionaire who is named in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Hill crisscrosses the plains on his recently-completed railroad, with his opera singer and dominatrix travelling companions. He’s used to getting what he wants and keeping what he has. So when he loses his Great Northern payroll in Bismark, what he most wants is for the vicious William Pinkerton and his sleazy henchman Jiggs Dubois to bring him the head of the varmint that took it. This is fascinating historical fiction, full of detailed information about the prairie border country, the people, the horses, and the weaponry, as well as the customs and cultural peccadilloes of the day in neighbouring nations that are developing in very different ways.

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241

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Coteau Books

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1550505629

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9781550505627

Bluebacks and Silver Brights

A Lifetime in the B.C. Fisheries from Bounty to Plunder

By: Norman Safarik,Allan Safarik

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A Lifetime in the B.C. Fisheries from Bounty to Plunder

By: Norman Safarik,Allan Safarik

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1770901841

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Bluebacks and Silver Brights

Bluebacks and Silver Brights

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