(UN)Marked: Landscapes along Highway 16

by Sarah de Leeuw

Overview

Unmarked: Landscapes Along Highway 16 is an exploration of the overlooked, forgotten and unknown regions of rural British Columbia. By exploring the terrain between the dots on the map, de Leeuw tells the stories of transient life in the small fishing and logging communities that border Highway 16. With the deft detail of one who has spent her life in spaces often disregarded in our ever-increasingly-urban focused gaze, de Leeuw merges her own narrative with the raw and rugged landscape of northwest BC.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781896300887
Publisher:	NeWest Publishers, Limited
Publication date:	09/13/2004
Pages:	118
Product dimensions:	5.56(w) x 8.42(h) x 0.34(d)

About the Author

Sarah de Leeuw is a human geographer. She grew up on Vancouver Island, Haida Gwaii (The Queen Charlotte Islands), Terrace, and currently lives in Prince George, BC. She has lived and worked in Arizona as a visiting Fulbright scholar with the University of Arizona. She earned a B.F.A. from the University of Victoria, after which she spent time teaching English in South Korea. She has also worked as a tugboat driver, a women's centre coordinator, a logging camp cook, and a journalist and correspondent for Connections magazine and CBC Radio's BC Almanac. She has a Ph.D. in historical-cultural geography, and is currently an assistant professor with the Northern Medical Program at UNBC, the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. De Leeuw is a two-time winner of the Creative Nonfiction category of the CBC Literary Awards, winning first place for "Columbus Burning" in 2009, and second place for "Quick-quick. Slow. Slow." in 2010. Her first book, Unmarked, was published by NeWest Press in 2004.