"The Queen Charlotte Islands have always been a half-legendary land of mists and mystery, set off and seemingly different from the rest of the coast. Human occuption goes back some 9,000 years, with intriguing hints of a people there before the Haida. Although the islands were "discovered" by Juan Perez, a Spaniard, in 1774, records indicate that voyagers from Asia had arrived much earlier. This is a story of people - Edenshaw, Weah, Davidson, Dawson, Collison and others - from Haida chiefs and carvers to European explorers and settlers

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Introduction: the call of the Islands

1. Ceremonial time
2. Spirit helpers and proclamations of prestige
3. Where history and geography collide
4. These fortunate islands
5. Europe casts its shadow
6. Visitors, missionaries and ghosts
7. They came to stay
8. Haida Gwaii