COASTAL VILLAGES, by Liv Kennedy (1st Ed. SIGNED)

Author: Liv Kennedy. Published by Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, BC., 1991, 1st Edition.  Printed in Canada. Signed by the Author. Like New Condition HARDCOVER Book, and Very Good Condition Dust Jacket, with minor handling wear. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 12.25 x 9.25 inch, 176 pages including index.

ULTRA RARE: SIGNED and dated by the Author on the title page. AND then rubber-stamped by the now defunct "BURRARD TOWING CO." and signed by two individuals of the company, presumably as a departing gift for an employee.

COASTAL VILLAGES, by Liv Kennedy, is overflowing with photographs, history and anecdotes about 24 picturesque British Columbian villages, including Lund, Campbell River, Quadra Island, Owen Bay, Hardwicke Island, Telegraph Cove, Alert Bay and Port Hardy.

Among the hundreds of colourful characters, you'll meet the genius engine builder Frank Osborne, and Billy Assu the magnanimous Kwakiutl Chief who threw a party for 2,000 people. There's the Schnarr daughters who kept cougars for pets, and Jack Myer the pistol-packing, dog-kicking bootlegger who hailed from the badlands of North Dakota and fatally shot a man in a shack on Read Island.

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