NEWS

Monday, December 10, 2007

Out of the wild - and into the ‘burbs

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The Globe and Mail reviews Tim Bowling’s The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture.  Described by the publisher as “part memoir, part environmental plea,” the book remembers life in the close-knit fishing community of Ladner, B.C.  Bowling laments the end of his boyhood way of life and the current state of the Fraser River.

But, despite the many losses and issues, the Fraser cannot be dismissed as a ruined ecosystem. Reviewer Terry Glavin notes that, in fact, the Fraser is less polluted than in the days of Bowling’s boyhood.