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Informationen zum Autor Robb Douglas was born in Edmonton in 1950 and began his 26-year career as a still photographer with CFRN television! later switching to 16mm film and eventually video. He moved to Regina to work for CBC National TV News! then to Vancouver. After racing endurance horses in BC for a couple of years! Douglas eventually shifted his focus to boats. For Skookum Tugs Douglas donned a pair of caulk boots and learned to run up and down logs with his cameras as nimbly as a boom man. He lives in North Vancouver with his wife Linda and their daughter Kate. Peter A. Robson has authored hundreds of articles and has served as editor for several magazines! including Pacific Yachting ! Cottage and Cottage Life West . He has also authored or co-authored books about commercial fishing! forestry! towboating and salmon farming. He is a regular at Harbour Publishing's Friday martini hour and lives in Garden Bay! BC. Betty Keller was born in Vancouver! BC! and moved to the Sunshine Coast in 1980. She is a teacher! mentor! editor and a writer! and has authored or co-authored eighteen books! including biographies! histories! plays and novels. She is a founder of the Sunshine Coast's Festival of the Written Arts and the Writers in Residence Program. Betty has won numerous awards for her literary work. She is an avid potter! gardener and fisherperson. Her most recent publication is a reprint of her 2001 novel! Better the Devil You Know (Caitlin). Caitlin Press also published! in 2010! her book! A Thoroughly Wicked Woman: Murder! Perjury & Trial by Newspaper . Klappentext Winner of the 2003 Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice BC Book Prize! A dazzling array of magnificent colour photos and a crisp, engaging text bring to life the spirit of BC's contemporary towboat industry and the beauty of BC's waterways. Zusammenfassung Ride along with these brawny boats as they catch the swells and waves of the wild West Coast! navigate deadly tidal rapids and squeeze through a winding maze of boats and bridges as they ply the mighty Fraser River. Join the Captain Bob ! the biggest tug on the coast! as she tows the world's largest log barge across the open waters of the Pacific. Watch Fraser River tugs guide 600-metre log booms between bridge supports with scarcely a whisker of clearance. Observe the intricate ballet as tugs manoeuvre 2!000-tonne chip barges into impossible places. These and many more strikingly illustrated stories will both entertain and inform the reader. ...
