Saturday, July 3, 2021

Guidebook to Vancouver Island (1973)



I saw this on the discount shelf outside of Carson Books yesterday. Kinda stopped me in my tracks, as book covers sometimes do. Such a simple design. The spine is even tighter.

Checked out the Table of Contents and noticed mention of off-Island locations. Alert Bay (on Cormorant Island) had a page to itself.

The year this guidebook was published is the same year Claude Levi-Strauss visited Alert Bay, where he spoke with Ron Martin, a Nuu-Chah-Nulth carver, on the topic of D'sonoqua. 

Yes, but the eyes, Levi-Strauss kept saying of D'Sonoqua. Are they really so pronounced? 

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