| Robert Brown & the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition Contributor(s): Hayman, John (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0774803959 ISBN-13: 9780774803953 Publisher: University of British Columbia Press OUR PRICE: $34.15 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1989 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Canada - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Biography & Autobiography | Adventurers & Explorers |
| Dewey: 917.113 |
| Series: Recollections of the Pioneers of British Columbia |
| Physical Information: 216 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Robert Brown, a twenty-one-year-old Scotsman, arrived on Vancouver Island in 1863 for the purpose of collecting seeds, roots, and plants for the Botanical Association of Edinburgh. Relations with his employer quickly deteriorated, however, and when the opportunity arose in 1864 to head the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition, Brown eagerly accepted the position as its commander. During the four and a half months of the expedition, Brown kept a journal which is published here for the first time. It is remarkable for its record of life on Vancouver Island over a century ago and its description of the island's pristine wilderness as well as for its proposals for future economic development. The accounts of agricultural settlements at Cowichan, Chemainus, and Comox and of the coal-mining town of Nanaimo are among the earliest available. |
