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Autore: | Verney Edmund Hope <1838-1910.> |
Titolo: | Vancouver Island letters of Edmund Hope Verney 1862-65 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Allan Pritchard |
Pubblicazione: | Vancouver, : UBC Press, c1996 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (325 p.) |
Disciplina: | 971.1/202/092 |
Soggetto geografico: | Vancouver Island (B.C.) History |
Vancouver Island (B.C.) History Sources | |
Vancouver Island (B.C.) Social conditions Sources | |
Altri autori: | PritchardAllan |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-294) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Front Matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Letters -- Notes to Letters -- Index -- The Pioneers of British Columbia |
Sommario/riassunto: | This previously unknown collection of letters lets us experience colonial British Columbia through the eyes of a young British naval officer who spent three years on Vancouver Island commanding a Royal Navy gunboat during the Cariboo gold rush. A keen observer of life in the new world, Edmund Hope Verney corresponded on a regular basis with his father, a prominent British MP. In his letters, which are filled with lively narration and description, candid commentary, and fascinating personal detail, he talks about having 'the opportunity to observe a colony in [its first] stage of existence' and to 'watch the development of a community.' |
Titolo autorizzato: | Vancouver Island letters of Edmund Hope Verney 1862-65 |
ISBN: | 1-283-13196-X |
9786613131966 | |
0-7748-5457-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910780682603321 |
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