Chasing Clayoquot a wilderness almanac


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In the manner of Thoreau, naturalist David Pitt-Brooke meditates on one of Earth’s last untouched places Vancouver Island’s fabled Clayoquot Sound. This area came to prominence during Clayoquot Summer,” a 1993 protest that resulted in 800 arrests but also halted the region's destruction by logging. Clayoquot Sound encompasses every imaginable landscape, from alpine tundra to old-growth temperate rain forest. Like Barry Lopez did with the north inArctic Dreams, Pitt-Brooke approaches this wild, magical place by taking readers on an unforgettable journey for each month of the year.Chasing Clayoquot is a profound and political trip through an extraordinary environment

Author(s): David Pitt-Brooke
Document: Book · Hardcover · CIRC [ 1 ]
Edition: 1st Canadian ed
Published: 2004
Physical Description: 287 pages : illustrations, maps, portrait ; 23 cm
Genre: History
Notes:

Maps on lining papers

Contents:

Prologue: Beginnings January: Chasing the Tempest: Who Has Seen the Wind? February: Clear and Cold: A Break in the Storm March: Nature's Plenty: Herring Time April: Thar She Blows!: The Springtime Migration of Gray Whales May: Wind Birds: Mudflats and Shorebird Migration June: Hanging On for Dear Life: The Intertidal Zone July: Through a Glass Darkly: A (Very) Brief Voyage of Oceanic Discovery August: In the Shadow of the Pacific: The Mountains of Clayoquot Sound September: Waste Not, Want Naught: Coastal Temperate Rainforest October: Ring of Bright Water: Bears, Salmon and Wild Rivers November: Day of the Dead: Seeking Y'aq-wii-itq-quu?as (Those Who Were Here Before) December: A Measure of History: In Search of the Recent Past Epilogue: East of Eden

Subjects:

British Columbia Clayoquot Sound Region, Clayoquot Sound Region (B.C.) Description and travel, Clayoquot, Région de la baie de (C.-B.) Descriptions et voyages, Travel

Related Places: Clayoquot Clayoquot Sound Regional District of Alberni-Clayoquot

 

Circulation

Here are a list of places where this title can be found and the various formats it can be found in.

Collection Resource Available Edition Published Publisher
The Cascade District: Encyclopedia Library Book Hardcover 1st Edition 2005 Raincoast Books

 

Last updated: 2026-09-12