Harry Thurston

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Winner of the Lane Anderson Award for Best Science Writing, the Evelyn Richardson Memorial Award for Non-Fiction, and the Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction.

An authoritative and fascinating exploration of the natural history of the east coast of North America.

The North Atlantic coast of North America — commonly known as the Atlantic Coast — …

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Based upon childhood memory and his naturalist's journals, A Place between the Tides is the story of Harry Thurston's return to the beloved environment of his boyhood when he moves to the Old Marsh on the banks of the Tidnish River in Nova Scotia. The book describes the seasons in the life of the marsh as filtered through two decades of Thurston's …

This book is a smyth-sewn paperback bound in card stock with an offset-printed jacket. The text was printed offset on laid paper.

Animals of My Own Kind is an outstanding introduction to the poetry of one of Canada’s best nature poets. Widely admired for his descriptive powers, for twenty-eight years Harry Thurston has trained his naturalist’s eye carefully, sensuously and idiosyncratically on his rugged Maritime landscape. In doing so, he has also staked out an emotional …

Winner of the Lane Anderson Award for Best Science Writing

An authoritative and fascinating exploration of the natural history of the east coast of North America.

The North Atlantic coast of North America -- commonly known as the Atlantic Coast -- extends from Newfoundland and Labrador through the Maritime Provinces and the Northeastern United States …

The poems contained in this collection, Harry Thurston’s first, give life to the Chignecto region of Nova Scotia with intense and affecting images.

Broken Vessel is a lyrical & deceptively stark meditation on the Sahara desert. The desert Harry Thurston encounters is a place where fossils, footprints and myths are sometimes one and the same, and where seeing and imagining are flexible acts, equal parts observation and invention. Geography is at turns linear, permeable and cyclic. Sand, sky and …

The popular story of the construction of the fixed link from the mainland to PEI. It includes the details of the design challenges and construction solutions for this monumental achievement.

Clouds Flying Before the Eye is Harry Thurston’s much-anticipated new collection of poems. Written with rare humanity, it brings together the voices of drowned ancestors and the first cries of Thurston’s daughter, the riddle of a relearned Nova Scotia history and the mysteries of biology. A Thurston reader finds an old world lit anew.

Atlantic Canada is enjoying a renaissance unknown since the days of Alden Nowlan, Milton Acorn, and John Thompson. Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada features work by 60 of the region’s finest poets in a volume that will whet appetites for more. The earlier poetry renaissance began in 1945, with the establishment of The Fiddlehead magazine …

Le profil gracieux du pont de la Confederation mystifie le voyageur. Concu pour durer 100 ans, le plus long pont au monde au-dessus d'une mer glacee est un defi d'ingenierie qui a ete releve par les meilleurs esprits techniquees de l'heure et qui a pousse la technologie canadienne aux primiers rangs du genie civil en eaux glaciales.

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Author of Tidal Life and Against Darkness and Storm, naturalist Harry Thurston has spent his life exploring the mysteries of the Bay of Fundy. Over the last decade, he has followed the major fossil discoveries made along Fundy's dramatic coastal cliffs. The result is Dawning of the Dinosaurs, which throws new light on the rise and eventual demise o …

After a fifteen-year hiatus, If Men Lived On Earth heralds the return of Atlantic Canada's premier nature writer to his first love — poetry. Mining the image-rich mythologies and landscapes of his Maritime home, Thurston demonstrates a passionate understanding of both human society and the natural world with which it is intertwined. From the Bay …

Shorebirds are known for their swift flight, their piercing cries and their extravagantly long legs and bills. They are also known for their spectacular migrations, which may take them from the Canadian High Arctic to the tip of South America, spanning 25 000 kilometres or more on their round trip. Magnificently illustrated with some of the best ph …

A rich & textured story of fishermen, farmers, housewives, island dwellers, lighthouse keepers, miners and more who live in our Atlantic region.

Accomplished writer and environmental activist Harry Thurston has compiled an exciting selection of Atlantic Canadian literary works to celebrate the chimera of nature writing.This anthology ranges from the poetic meditation to the factual essay, and includes both authors from the region and those from away, to provide a thoughtful exploration of t …

A perfect gift for anyone who enjoys great nature writing or is interested in touring Canada's Atlantic region. (1998)

In the winter of 2009, Harry Thurston travelled to Campbell River on Vancouver Island to serve a term as writer-in-residence in the former home of the renowned fisherman and environmentalist Roderick Haig-Brown. While there, he and his longtime friend Allan Cooper embarked on a poetic correspondence; Thurston would send his Campbell River poems eas …

Tidal Life is the definitive natural and human history of the unique and massive Bay of Fundy. With visual reminders of the Bay's immensity and impact. Winner of the Evelyn Richardson Award for non fiction, the Dartmouth Book Award for non-fiction and the Atlantic Provinces Booksellers Choice Award.