Alan Twigg: 4 books

Book cover of Essentials, The

Essentials, The

150 Great BC Books & Authors

by Alan Twigg
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010

From Franz Boas to Alice Munro: welcome to an unprecedented panorama of the most significant authors and books of British Columbia culled from Alan Twigg's unrivalled knowledge of more than two centuries of B.C. literary history. The Essentials is the new bible of who wrote what, and why, in B.C.,...
Book cover of Thompson's Highway

Thompson's Highway

The Literary Origins of British Columbia, Volume 3

by Alan Twigg
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006

For his third volume about BC literary history, Alan Twigg traces the writings of David Thompson, Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser and thirty of their peers, mainly Scotsmen, who founded and managed more than fifty forts west of the Rockies prior to 1850. After the failure of Alexander Mackenzie...
Book cover of Aboriginality

Aboriginality

The Literary Origins of British Columbia, Volume 3

by Alan Twigg
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005

Following the success of First Invaders (Ronsdale, 2004), Alan Twigg turns his attention to First Nations writers, unearthing more than 300 books by more than 170 mostly unheralded British Columbia aboriginal authors. Taking the reader from residential schools to art galleries, this lively and unprecedented...
Book cover of Tibetans in Exile
by Alan Twigg
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009

Alan Twigg has here recovered the amazing story of how George and Ingeborg while travelling in northern India in 1961 encountered many of the Tibetan refugees who had fled over the mountain passes. Appalled by the condition of the children, huddled together with inadequate bedding, surviving on a...
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