harbour publishing including Spring and Contents New Books from Harbour Publishing 1 New Books from Nightwood Editions 14 Recent Releases from Harbour Publishing 19 Recent Releases from Nightwood Editions 22 Essential Backlist 24 Non-Fiction Highlights 24 Raincoast Chronicles 27 Field Guide Pamphlets 28 Mike McCardell Library 29 Sports 29 Dreamspeaker Guides 29 Nature & Fishing 30 Travel & Guides 31 Art & Graphic Novels 31 Home, Garden, Cooking & Crafts 32 Humour 32 Poetry 33 Children’s 34 Puzzles 35 Fiction 36 Print on Demand 36 Books in Print 37 Author Index 44 Information for all books in print including book description, author information, cover, and up-to-date price and availability is listed on our website, www.harbourpublishing.com. All prices equivalent in US dollars unless otherwise noted. All prices and specifications subject to change without notice. CoVer imAge: photo by Wayne Sawchuk, from Summer of the Horse by Donna Kane. HP: Harbour Publishing NE: Nightwood Editions LM: Lost Moose Publishing Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd. acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country. We also gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Government of Canada and from the Province of British Columbia through the BC Arts Council and the Book Publishing Tax Credit. On the Line A History of the British Columbia Labour Movement ROD MICKLEBURGH A comprehensive chronicle of the labour movement in British Columbia. The BC TradiTion of fighTing BaCk againsT unfair pay and unsafe working conditions has been around since before the colony joined Confederation. In 1849 Scottish labourers at BC’s first coal mine at Fort Rupert went on strike to protest wretched working conditions, and it’s been a wild ride ever since. For years the BC labour movement was the most militant in the land, led by colourful characters like Ginger Goodwin, murdered for his pains, and pull-no-punches communist Harvey Murphy, who brought the house of labour down on himself with his infamous “underwear speech.” PHOTO BY LUCIE MCNEILL Through years of battles with BC’s power elite and small victories followed by bitter defeats, BC unions established the five-day work week, the eight-hour day, paid holidays, the right to a safe, non-discriminatory workplace and many more taken- for-granted features of the modern work landscape. But unions’ enemies never sleep and, well into the second decade of the twenty-first century, battles still go on, like that of BC teachers in their long and ultimately successful struggle to improve classroom conditions. On the Line also highlights the role played by women, Indigenous and minority workers in working toward equality and democracy in workplaces and communities. In prose that is both accessible and engaging, accompanied REGIONAL HISTORY by over two hundred archival photos, Mickleburgh tells the April important story of how BC’s labour organizations have shaped cloth the economic, political and social fabric of the province—at a CDN $44.95 cost of much blood, sweat, toil and tears. This volume is the most 8½" × 11" · 320 pages comprehensive overview of labour’s struggle in BC and will be 200 B&W photos of particular interest to union members, community activists, Rights Held: World academics and readers of regional history. 978-1-55017-826-5 (cloth) 978-1-55017-827-2 (ebook) ROD MICKLEBURGH is a former labour reporter for the Vancouver Sun and Province and senior writer for The Globe and Mail. He is also the author of The Art of the Impossible: Dave Barrett and the NDP in Power, 1972–1975 (co-authored with Geoff Meggs). ALSO BY ROD MICKLEBURGH 9 781550 1 78265 978-1-55017-579-0 THE ART OF THE IMPOSSIBLE Geoff Meggs & Rod Mickleburgh SALE! $19.99 hardcover WINNER OF THE HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZE (2013) HARBOUR PUBLISHING Spring 2018 | 1 Strange New Country The Salmon Strikes of 1900 and the Birth of Modern British Columbia GEOFF MEGGS A gripping account of a pivotal moment in British Columbia’s history. salmon gillneTTing in The TurBulenT waTers of The Fraser River at the turn of the last century was dangerous, back-breaking work. Skiffs were equipped with a single sail, but most maneuvering had to be accomplished by oars, an almost impossible task against any current or tide. Once towed to the grounds by a cannery tug, the fishermen were on their own for at least twelve hours, casting their 400-metre long nets out and pulling them back by hand. Their only shelter was a partial tent over the bow. Many came to grief on dark, windy nights as they blew out of the main channel to the mudflats of the estuary, or worse, the open waters of the Strait of Georgia. When the powerful Fraser River Canners’ Association fixed the maximum price per salmon at 15 cents, fishermen united in their determination to win a decent living. Their strike shut down British Columbia’s second-largest export industry and effectively resulted in the imposition of martial law as the canners, frustrated by political deadlock in Victoria, called out the militia without government assent to achieve their ends. The strike has long been understood as a watershed moment in the province’s industrial history. In this revealing chronicle, Geoff Meggs shows it was even more than that. REGIONAL HISTORY Other strikes in that era may have lasted longer, many were April more violent, but none drew such diverse groups—Indigenous, paper Japanese, white—into an uneasy, short-term but effective CDN $22.95 coalition. While united by the common goal of economic equality, 6" × 9" · 224 pages strikers were divided by forceful social pressures: First Nations 30 B&W photos fishermen wished to assert their Indigenous rights; Japanese Rights Held: World fishermen, having fled poverty in their homeland, were seeking 978-1-55017-829-6 (paper) equality and opportunity in a new country; white fishermen were 978-1-55017-830-2 (ebook) angered by the greed of the tiny clique of wealthy Vancouver industrialists who controlled the salmon industry. This maelstrom came together in Steveston, a ramshackle clapboard and cedar shake cannery boom town that blossomed into one of the province’s largest cities for a few hectic months each summer. In this compelling account, told with journalistic flair and vivid detail, Meggs leaves no room for doubt: this event marked BC’s turn into the modern era, with lessons about inequality, racism, immigration and economic power that remain relevant today. 9 781550 1 78296 GEOFF MEGGS is currently the chief of staff to BC Premier John Horgan. He has been a journalist, Vancouver city councillor and executive director of the BC Federation of Labour. He is the author of several books, including Salmon: The Decline of the West Coast Fishery (Douglas & McIntyre, 1991), which won the Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing. He lives in Victoria, BC. 2 | HARBOUR PUBLISHING Spring 2018 Summer of the Horse DONNA KANE A passionate and honest sojourn into the mind of a woman diving into a new adventure in the wilderness of ’s Northern Rockies. whaT do you do when you deCide you no longer wanT To be responsible for anyone but yourself? When faced with that moment, Donna Kane leaves her twenty-five-year marriage for life with a conservationist and wilderness guide who is so certain of the path he is on that she thinks she’s just along for the ride. A few days before Kane’s new husband leaves for a three- month horse-pack expedition, a gelding is seriously injured, and she agrees to stay behind to tend the horse’s wound. In the quiet moments spent with the horse each day, she reflects on her transition into the new relationship, the wilderness of the unknown, and her struggles with personal autonomy and independence. A deft writer, Kane takes readers on her inaugural trail ride into the stunning Muskwa-Kechika protected area, known as the “Serengeti of the North.” She rides with a pack string of PHOTO BY WAYNE SAWCHUK horses over mountain passes, into boreal forests, along swamps and sand flats, crossing creeks and fast-flowing rivers. A novice horsewoman traversing new terrain, she is startled out of her familiar routines and must examine her assumptions of the wild, within and without, to find her place in the world. With honesty and humility, Kane reveals the folly, surprise MEMOIR and knowledge—of the world and of the self—that can come March from setting foot in the headstrong currents of the unknown. paper with French flaps Including striking photos of the Muskwa-Kechika and CDN $19.95 the pack string horses, the book touches on universal issues of 5½" × 8½" · 136 pages ecological protection and individual identity. Summer of the 18 colour photos, map Horse is sure to captivate readers interested in equine pursuits Rights Held: World as well as those concerned with the ecological issues facing BC’s 978-1-55017-819-7 (paper) far north. 978-1-55017-820-3 (ebook) DONNA KANE, a recipient of the Aurora Award of Distinction: Arts and Culture (2009), is the current executive director of the Peace Liard Regional Arts Council and co-founder of Writing on the Ridge (a non-profit society that has, for over twenty years, organized arts festivals, literary readings, artist retreats, and writer-in-residence programs). Her work has appeared in journals and magazines across Canada and she is the author of two poetry titles, Somewhere, a Fire and Erratic (Hagios Press, 2004 and 2007). She currently lives in Rolla, BC, with her 9 781550 1 78197 husband Wayne Sawchuk.