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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825389103321

Autore

Stewart Howard MacDonald

Titolo

Views of the Salish Sea : one hundred and fifty years of change around the Strait of Georgia / / Howard MacDonald Stewart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madeira Park, British Columbia : , : Harbour Publishing, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

1-55017-804-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (371 pages)

Disciplina

917.113

Soggetti

Georgia, Strait of (B.C. and Wash.) Historical geography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Sea as Barrier, the Sea as Highway -- 2. Empty Land or Stolen Land? The Colonial Strait -- 3. Resource Mining by the Sea: Mining and Forestry -- 4. Resource Mining in the Sea: Fish and Oysters -- 5. The Strait as Waste Dump -- 6. Recreation on the Restorative Strait -- 7. Conclusions and Reflections on the Twenty-First-Century Strait -- Notes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Interweaving geography, biology and resource economics with history, this is a deft examination of the Strait of Georgia from the 1850s to the modern era.