Vancouver : Stories of a City: A History of Vancouver's Neighbourhoods and the People Who Built Them

Smedman, Lisa

Verlag: The Vancouver Courier, 2008

Beschreibung

2008 Vancouver Courier (Vancouver, Canada), 8 7/8 x 10 1/4 inches tall brown cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, pictorial map endpapers, copiously illustrated with black-and-white and color photographs and drawings, index, 320 pp. Very slight soiling and rubbing to covers. Otherwise, a near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a like dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. ~YY~ [3.5P] A local history which expands on a 12-part, award-winning series published by the Vancouver Courier in 2006-2007. Packed with historic photos, maps and illustrations, Vancouver: Stories of a City tells the tales of the Royal Engineers sent from England to police the gold rush, the real estate barons who made backroom deals to bring the Canadian Pacific Railway terminus to Vancouver, the Musqueam and Squamish First Nations peoples, and the immigrants from Europe and Asia who came by steamship, stagecoach and CPR train. The lively and often poignant sagas found in this work capture the lives of rich and poor, speculator and settler alike, covering the gamut of the early pioneers who wound up calling this city home. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers YY-1032-13981

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Vancouver : Stories of a City: A History of ...

Verlag: The Vancouver Courier

Erscheinungsdatum: 2008

Einband: hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good