Following the Boulder Train
Travels with Prospectors and Rock Doctors
Will be published approx. on 16. November 2006
Book
Hardback
250 pages
978-1-55017-377-2 (ISBN)
Description
Tom Henry offers memorable insights into the driven, obsessed world of mineral exploration and the mining industry in BC.
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Language
English
Place of publication
British Columbia
Canada
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55017-377-2 (9781550173772)
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Tom Henry was born in Duncan, BC in 1961. He earned his BA in history from the University of Victoria, and has worked on tugboats, in logging camps and owned his own firewood business. A former staff writer for Monday Magazine, Henry has authored several books including Westcoasters: Boats that Built BC (winner of the Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award), The Good Company: An Affectionate History of the Union Steamships (winner of the BC Historical Federation's Lieutenant Governor's Award), Dogless in Metchosin, The Ideal Dog and Other Delusions, Paul Bunyan on the West Coast and Small City in a Big Valley: The Story of Duncan. Henry's audiotape of readings from Dogless in Metchosin is popular with listeners who know him from his CBC Radio "Country Life" column. He lives in Victoria, BC.