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published: Sep 2010
ISBN:9781550175059
publisher: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd.

A Walk with the Rainy Sisters

In Praise of British Columbia's Places

by Stephen Hume

tagged: essays
Description

This book is a lyrical testament to a great love affair between the writer and his region. In A Walk with the Rainy Sisters, one of British Columbia's favourite authors writes with passion about his favourite topic--the geography of British Columbia. Stephen Hume guides readers through the natural world, moving from the thin, cold air of British Columbia's high country to the fecundity and silence of the deep rainforest. He writes of the iridescence of dragonflies dancing out brief lives above summer ponds and the brittle forests of glass sponges growing in the lightless depths of the continental shelf, where they have flourished undisturbed since the Jurassic. Hume contemplates the meaning of rain; the tawny islets in the Salish Sea; what the night sky tells us about our place in time; people who choose to live at the margins and the relentless passage of lives and seasons, loss and renewal.

"What Hume has forgotten about this province is more than most journalists will ever know," wrote Terry Glavin. Roberta Morris wrote, "He unburies language." A Walk with the Rainy Sisters invites readers once again to share the author's love and awe of this province.

About the Author

Stephen Hume

Stephen Hume was born in Dallas, Texas. He has two adult daughters, Georgia and Natalie. He reads, writes, watches movies, and practices Buddhism and chen style tai chi. Stephen teaches writing to graduate and undergraduate students in the Economics Department at the University of Victoria. He incorporates movies into his lectures, especially movies that have an economics theme, such as Fight Club, The Grapes of Wrath, and Dr. Strangelove. He lives in Victoria, B.C. 
Awards
  • Short-listed, The City of Victoria Butler Book Prize
Editorial Review

"The many facets of the brilliant historian, journalist, and essayist, Stephen Hume, come together in in this evocative book about the places and peoples of the West Coast. Both serenity and peace echo in the weathers of these island pages. A Walk with the Rainy Sisters, is Hume at his most personal, the intimacies and reflections gathered here worth all our attention. He is one of the best writers we have in this country."

- Patrick Lane

"Reading Stephen Hume is like walking the beach at low tide with a knowing and lyrical guide: what was hidden is revealed anew. Each stone turned is an exploration of place, history and possibility - in prose that's highly personal and uniquely British Columbian. He makes us love this land at the edge of the world even more."

- Mark Forsythe

— Praise from Patrick Lane
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