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Sea Among the Rocks: Travels in Atlantic CanadaHarry ThurstonAtlantic Canada, Travel, Environment Order this book: |
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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.
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. He has published three books of poetry. George Elliott Clarke called his latest, 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.
A long-time contributing editor to Equinox and Harrowsmith, Thurston's articles have won several national awards. He is also the author of 9 non-fiction books, including Tidal Life, A Natural History of the Bay of Fundy, which received the Richardson Award for the best work of non-fiction by a Nova Scotian in 1990. He won a second Richardson for his 1996 book, The Nature of Shorebirds: Nomads of the Wetlands. Island of the Blessed, a book on the Dakhleh Oasis in Egypt's Western Desert, covering a half million years of human history, will be published by Doubleday Canada in Spring 2003. He lives on the Tidnish River in Nova Scotia's Cumberland County with his wife, daughter, dog, and cats.