Books published by Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada

Art and Culture of the Northwest Coast Indians. The Northwest Coast is the land whose aboriginal in habitants are distinguished by their large rectangular wooden houses, totems and dug-out canoes, and their dependence upon the products of the sea for their food. They placed great value upon purity of family descent and the virtue of benevolence in the disposition of property; but most conspicuous of all their traits is their highly original art.

An interactive wildlife coloring and activity book featuring 22 species from western North America.North Americans'' greatest natural treasures are its wild places and the wild creatures that live there. The animals in this booklet are portrayed in their habitat, or home - and no animal can survive without a secure and safe home. The preservation of animal life and their habitat depend on the next generation understanding this simple fact. Find out how each animal in this book lives, what it eats, what habitat it occupies and what color it and its surroundings are by looking at travel brochures, books and wildlife websites.

By taking this heart-rending journey into his own luminous past and the more remote and sombre past of the lumber-town where he grew up, Al Sandine has masterfully laid bare some of the most crucial issues facing America and the world today. An important, accessible, daring book, of interest to anyone puzzled and outraged by the dilemmas and secrets of globalisation. Upon visiting his hometown of Coos Bay on Oregon''s rainy coast in 1998, the author was shocked by the transformation of the major lumber port that he recalled from childhood into an economic disaster zone. This book tells the story of how corporate greed destroyed a way of life. Blending historical records with political passion, Plundertown, USA provides a regional, national, and global context for the area''s decline and points the way to a better future for other places like Coos Bay.

Cowboy poet, artist and raconteur Mike Puhallo continues his poetic exploration of the cowboy and modern life. At various times in his life a working cowboy, saddlebronc rider, horse trainer, packer and truck driver, he is also a respected western painter. He has combined a lifelong love of words with the cowboy yarning tradition to produce sometimes silly, sometimes serious, and always entertaining poems from the heart. This sixth collection of his work once again benefits from the witty cartoons and caricatures of Wendy Liddle, whose work delightfully enhances Mike''s words.

A Compilation of Poetry containing the authors memories of the Cowboy Way in Southeastern Montana - Russell Country. This collection of verse contains the echoes of stories Bette Wolf Duncan heard as a child-accounts of a time when the great buffalo herds still thundered through the valleys; when Cheyenne and Crow still camped around the Yellowstone River; when mountain men and cowboys, prospectors and miners, rustlers and vigilantes still populated Russell Country. Duncan also speaks to the modern cowboy whose problems and ranching tools are different from the cowboys of a century ago, but whose passion for the land continues undiminished. Duncan also speaks to the modern cowboy whose problems and ranching tools are different from the cowboys of a century ago, but whose passion for the land continues undiminished.

This book documents a quest to determine if a flock of cranes could be trained to follow a truck on a long-distance migration and arrive wild enough to survive after release. This fast-moving, and often humorous, odyssey describes the training of tiny crane chicks and then the truck-led convoy of the grown birds on a bone-jarring, backroad migration over the mountains and across the deserts of Arizona. David Ellis'' cranes and his team of unshaven, obsessively dedicated ''craniacs'' suffer collisions with powerlines, eagle attacks and close calls with an array of trains, trucks and cars. The mood of this true adventure story varies from playful to mournful as the wonder and harshness of nature imprints the journey''s outcome.

This book describes the delivery of 8000 aircraft to Russia over a little known airway that extended from the U.S. through Northwestern Canada to Nome, Alaska. Warplanes to Alaska is a tribute to the hundreds of men and women who toiled in the harshest of climates to help decide the outcome of World War II. The author interviewed scores of Canadian, Russians and American veterans and acquired hundreds of photos in an effort to fully recount this amazing part of history. Details of the Russian portion of the airway and their military operations, long hidden by an impenetrable veil of official secrecy, are revealed here for the first time. Warplanes to Alaska will engage anyone interested in WWII, aviation or northern history. Could a subarctic wilderness airway traversing northwestern North America and the breadth of Russia be used to deliver thousands of warplanes? The needs of the beleaguered WW II ally demanded the attempt, despite the brutal climate, primitive facilities and wild terrain. This book describes the delivery of 8,000 aircraft to Russia over a little-known airway that extended from the U.S. through northwestern Canada to Nome, Alaska. The airway was cruel on man and machine as the twisted wrecks of fallen warplanes littering forest and muskeg bear testament. Warplanes to Alaska is a tribute to the hundreds of men and women who toiled in the harshest of climates to help decide the outcome of World War II. The author interviewed scores of Canadian, Russians and American veterans and acquired hundreds of photos in an effort to fully recount this amazing part of history. Details of the Russian portion of the airway and their military operations, long hidden by an impenetrable veil of official secrecy, are revealed here for the first time. Warplanes to Alaska will engage anyone interested in WWII, aviation or northern history.

Descriptive interpretation of northwest coast Indian art as represented by this collection of several previously unpublished works of Wilson Duff. The tragic death of Wilson Duff at the age of 51, cut short the life of one of the leading experts on the arts and culture of Native peoples of the Northwest Coast. An anthropology professor at the University of B.C, his death, by his own hand, terminated his uncommonly perceptive research into the philosophy and psychology of Native art. Bird of Paradox consists of unpublished works by Duff which present his unique theoretical ideas that contribute to art scholarship, as well as creative writings and poetry which expose his emotional experiences with and feelings toward Native art and culture. Editor E. N. Anderson has provided detailed introductory material recounting Duff''s life and work, and puts Duff''s final contributions in the context of Northwest Coast life.