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Born in Yarmouth, Harry Thurston received a BSc in Biology from Acadia in 1971. For the last 25 years, he has been a full-time writer. A long-time contributing editor to Equinox and Harrowsmith and a feature writer for more than thirty leading magazines, including Audubon and National Geographic, Thurston's articles have won several national awards, including the Canadian Science Writer's Association Science & Society Award and the National Magazine Award for Science & Technology.
He has published three books of poetry, and his poems have appeared in The Antigonish Review, The Fiddlehead, Grain, Pottersfield Portfolio, Poetry Toronto and Prism International. George Elliott Clarke called his If Men Lived On Earth (Gaspereau Press, 2000), "a grand accomplishment," and one of the best books of poetry to be published in the last 15 years.
He is also the author of 9 non-fiction books, including Tidal Life: A Natural History of the Bay of Fundy (Camden House Publishing, 1990), which received the 1991 Atlantic Provinces Booksellers Choice Award. He won the Evelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction in 1991 for Tidal Life and again in 1997 for The Nature of Shorebirds: Nomads of the Wetlands (Greystone, 1996), and his Island of the Blessed: the Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis (Doubleday Canada, 2003) was shortlisted for it in spring 2004. He lives on the Tidnish River in Nova Scotia's Cumberland County with his wife, daughter, dog, and cats.
Contributed to the anthology Pottersfield Nation: East of Canada.
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Sea Among the Rocks: Travels in Atlantic Canada Harry ThurstonAtlantic Canada, Travel, Environment Order this book from:
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The Sea Among the Rocks is a powerful book about important people and their communities. Harry Thurston has journeyed through Atlantic Canada from Labrador to Sable Island and to the many bays, islands and outports in between to write about his homeland for such magazines as Equinox, Audubon, and National Geographic. Here is the rich and textured story of the fishermen, the loggers, the housewives, the farmers, the scallop dragger men, the island dwellers, the lighthouse keepers, the coal miners, and the everyday men and women who live extraordinary lives in this region by the sea. It is a book about the spirit of Atlantic Canada and a way of life that has been under attack for decades.
Award-winning writer Harry Thurston takes the reader to Anticosti Island, Advocate Harbour, Cut Throat Island, Tatamagouche, McNutt Island, Bridgewater, Greenwich, River Hebert, Springhill, Big Tancook Island, Mooseland, Millstream, Dalhousie, Grand Manan, Petit Forte, Sable Island, and other intriguing destinations. Thurston writes passionately about the region's bounty, the environmental destruction and the attempts to protect what's left of our natural heritage. He shows how these concerns for the environment are inseparable from community and culture.