City on Edge - A Rebellious Century of Vancouver Protests, Riots, and Strikes

A collection of photographs documenting the moments Vancouver stood up, took to the streets, rallied for change, or exploded in anger.

About the author

Kate Bird helped manage the photograph collection at the Vancouver Sun and Province for twenty-five years. She is the author of the bestselling Vancouver in the Seventies, and has been the researcher for numerous books, including Making Headlines: 100 Years of the Vancouver Sun, which won the Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award.

Charles Demers is an author, stand-up comedian, and faculty member in the Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia. His collection of essays, Vancouver Special, was shortlisted for the Hubert Evans Book Prize for Non-Fiction.

Summary

A passionate and powerful collection of photographs that proves that, for better or worse, Vancouver knows how to make its voice heard.

Foreword

Pitching excerpts to daily papers and lifestyle publications along the west coast

Product details

• Authors: Kate Bird
• Assisted by: Charles Demers (Foreword), Demers Charles (Foreword)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.11.2017
• EAN: 9781771643139
• ISBN: 978-1-77164-313-9
• Dimensions: 228 mm x 254 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 1043 g
• Illustrations: Color and B&W photos
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Vancouver, History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, HISTORY / General, PHOTOGRAPHY / Photojournalism, Politics & government, Politics and government, Photography and photographs, Photographic reportage, Photojournalism and documentary photography