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A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY, MEANING AND MATERIALITY OF
THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT There is a blue hole in environmental
history. The thirteen essays in this very accessible collection
fill it by closing the gap between land and sea, by exploring the
ways the earthly and maritime realms influence one another. What
has too often been described as the 'eternal sea' is shown to be
remarkably dynamic. Ranging widely from Australia to the Arctic,
from ocean depths to high islands, a new generation of humanists
and scientists trespass the boundaries of their own fields of
inquiry to tie together human and natural histories. They reflect
contemporary concerns with declining fisheries, damaged estuaries,
and vanishing coastal communities. Here the history of oceanic
sciences meets that of literary and artistic imagination, offering
vivid insights into the meanings as well as the materiality of
waves and swamps, coasts and coral reefs. In their introduction,
John Gillis and Franziska Torma suggest the directions in which the
fluid frontiers of marine environmental history are moving.
The History of the feuds and conflicts among the clans in the
Northern parts of Scotland and in the Western Isles from the year
1031 to 1619 first published in 1780 for John Gillies reproduces in
facsimile by The Armorial Register Limited.
Collecting these excerpts from Wallace Chambers' Vancouver diary
and World War I letters has been a labour of love for author John
Gillis. The result is an extraordinary record of one ordinary young
man's life just after the turn of the century. Wallace Chambers
kept a diary from 1907 to 1913 while he lived in Vancouver. He
filled each day with as much as he could, especially outdoors
activities. Wallace was also passionate about cultural and social
activities and enjoyed many of the events and venues Vancouver
offered. His diary gives a rare glimpse into the world of
middle-class young people in Vancouver of the early 1900s. Over the
years a tender love story unfolded in Wallace's diary as he
gradually fell in love with Cecie, the woman he hadn't seen since
1905. When Wallace went off to war in 1914, he and Cecie were
briefly reunited in England before he left for the front. His
letters home were graphic and poignant. Wallace was killed in 1915
at the age of 29.
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