http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0380415
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is part of: British Columbia Historical Books Collection
creator: Enock, C. Reginald (Charles Reginald), 1868-1970
issued: 2019-08-07
issued: 1909
description: "Includes two chapters on B.C., one dealing with topography and natural resources, and the other B.C.'s relationship to, and position in, Canada and the British Empire. Also: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. Also: 1913."-- Edwards, M. H., Lort, J. C. R., & Carmichael, W. J. (1975). A bibliography of British Columbia: Years of growth, 1900-1950. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 105.
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extent: xi, [130], 356 pages : frontispiece, illustrations (colour cover), photographs, map (colour folded in pocket) ; 24 cm
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note: Jl OPINIONS OF THE PRESS UPON THE AUTHOR'S FORMER WORKS "MEXICO" " Mr. Enock has special qualifications for writing this book. He knows the country thoroughly ; he sets down facts with mathematical precision ; he has a scholar's knowledge of past history; he can transmute the hard material of ancient chronicles into gleaming romance; and he describes scenery with a poet's skill. Full of charm he makes his pages : an epic, stirring and virile. We feel as if the thrilling incidents were of yesterday, and had been described by a spectator. Nor is it in this that Mr. Enock alone excels. The modern life of the republic, its government, its industries, its development and its possibilities, are all sketched by the master hand. Turn where we will the pages hold our attention. History, geography, commerce, statecraft are all treated, and the author never fails to interest us and to convey his information in the most acceptable and serviceable manner."—Manchester City News. " Suc;ha survey, based as it is upon travel and observation, animated everywhere by enthusiasm, tempered by acute discernment, and reinforced by a sense of the import of history, could scarcely fail of interest to the general reader. Probably few will read it to the end without feeling themselves enveloped by a strange and fascinating atmosphere."— The Graphic. "An exhaustive and authoritative account, not only of the strange and turbulent history of the country, but of its present conditions and topography. Mr. Enock unites to a terse and vivid literary style the commercial instinct and trained observation of a shrewd man of affairs, and not only the traveller and the archaeologist, but also the trader and the capitalist will find in his book matters of absorbing interest. The picturesque natural features of the country are described with a charming touch. —Aberdeen Free Press. - "Mr-Enock's experience as a scientific engineer and expert is of a high order, and consequently in tbe chapters dealing with t…
note: Includes index Other copies: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/906168040
has type: Books
identifier: F5804.3 .E59
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0380415
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: London : Grant Richards
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source: Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. F5804.3 .E59
subject: Pacific Coast (South America)
subject: Northwest Coast of North America
title: The great Pacific coast : twelve thousand miles in the golden west : being an account of life and travel in the western states of North and South America, from California, British Columbia, and Alaska: to Mexico, Panama, Peru and Chile; and a study of their physical and political conditions the golden west : being an account of life and travel in the western states of North and South America, from California. British Columbia, and Alaska: to Mexico, Panama, Peru and Chile; and a study of their physical and political conditions
type: Text