The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory, and the Death of Wild Culture.

Ann Turner is Financial and Budget Manager at the University of British
Columbia Library.

Award-winning poet and novelist Tim Bowling was raised in the fishing village of Ladner, British Columbia. As a member of a fishing family, and a fisherman himself for many years, he was at home in the marshes of the Fraser River estuary and strongly attuned to the natural cycles of life on, in, and beside the river. In this memoir of growing up on the coast he vividly recreates the days of his youth, working and playing on the river with his family and friends, and revelling in the scents, sounds, and colours of the natural world around him. He observes the environmental and social changes that development has brought to the area and expresses concern and regret for a way of life that has been lost. This is Bowling’s first work of non-fiction and it happily combines the poet’s gift of evocative description with the strong characterizations and narrative skills of the novelist.