Inventing Stanley Park
An Environmental History
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2013
- Category
- Historical Geography, Post-Confederation (1867-), General, British Columbia (BC)
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774824279
- Publish Date
- May 2013
- List Price
- $125.00
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774824248
- Publish Date
- May 2013
- List Price
- $95.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774824255
- Publish Date
- Aug 2013
- List Price
- $29.95
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Description
In early December 2006, a powerful windstorm ripped through Vancouver’s Stanley Park. The storm transformed the city’s most treasured landmark into a tangle of splintered trees and shattered a decades-old vision of the park as timeless virgin wilderness. In Inventing Stanley Park, Sean Kheraj traces how the tension between popular expectations of idealized nature and the volatility of complex ecosystems helped transform the landscape of one of the world’s most famous urban parks. This beautifully illustrated book not only depicts the natural and cultural forces that shaped the park’s landscape, it also examines the roots of our complex relationship with nature.
About the author
Awards
- Winner, CLIO Prize for BC, Canadian Historical Association
- Commended, BC Historical Federation Book Prize
- Short-listed, Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia, UBC Library
- Short-listed, Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Book Prize, BC Book Prizes
- Short-listed, City of Vancouver Book Award
Contributor Notes
Sean Kheraj is an assistant professor in the Department of History at York University.
