| The Vancouver Island Letters of Edmund Hope Verney: 1862-65 Revised Edition Contributor(s): Pritchard, Allan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0774805730 ISBN-13: 9780774805735 Publisher: University of British Columbia Press OUR PRICE: $34.15 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Canada - General - History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy) - Biography & Autobiography | Military |
| Dewey: 971 |
| Series: Pioneers of British Columbia S |
| Physical Information: 323 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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.' |
