The Arbutus/Madrone Files: Reading the Pacific NorthwestThis lively and perceptive look at the literature of the U.S. and Canadian Pacific Northwest explores the dynamics of the cross-border region using resonant quotations, poetry, song lyrics, and art to demonstrate and enhance Laurie Ricou's critical readings and ideas. |
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... islands between Vancouver Island and the Washington Territory mainland . Was San Juan Island American or British ? This question became crucial when Lyman Cutler , a no doubt dastardly American living on the island , shot a pig ...
... islands between Vancouver Island and the Washington Territory mainland . Was San Juan Island American or British ? This question became crucial when Lyman Cutler , a no doubt dastardly American living on the island , shot a pig ...
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... Island File I FLYING OVER THE SAN JUAN / GULF ISLANDS in October 1992 , I am amazed at the map below , at its complicated asymmetry ( the ordered disorder of fractals , I wonder ) . An aerial Rorschach test , I decide , requiring deep ...
... Island File I FLYING OVER THE SAN JUAN / GULF ISLANDS in October 1992 , I am amazed at the map below , at its complicated asymmetry ( the ordered disorder of fractals , I wonder ) . An aerial Rorschach test , I decide , requiring deep ...
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... islands , or read them , the associa- tion with isolation and sta- sis dissolves in some inter- dependence of island , river , and moving ocean . Region emerges in a layer- ing of stories , stories of lives in nature , fish stories , island ...
... islands , or read them , the associa- tion with isolation and sta- sis dissolves in some inter- dependence of island , river , and moving ocean . Region emerges in a layer- ing of stories , stories of lives in nature , fish stories , island ...
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