Raincoast Chronicles Fifth Five

Brimming with stories and images, this fascinating collection celebrates Harbour Publishing’s fifty-year commitment to recording the unique ways of life that have sprung from the West Coast.

Half a century and hundreds of book releases have rolled by since Harbour Publishing was founded in 1974. So it is only appropriate to mark this golden anniversary with a new omnibus of Raincoast Chronicles, the series that has always been at the heart of Harbour’s mission to express the rich culture and history of BC’s coast. Indeed, it was the Chronicles, which began publication in 1972, that inspired the creation of Harbour itself, as the expansive articles grew into book-length works.

This collector's edition gathers volumes 21 through 24 of Raincoast Chronicles along with Raincoast Monograph The Remarkable Adventures of Portuguese Joe Silvey.

Raincoast Chronicles Fifth Five includes stories of disasters at sea, scarcely believable bush plane feats, eerie events at coastal ghost towns and reminisces of the Schnarr sisters who kept cougars as pets, along with pieces by some of BC's most iconic writers—Jean Barman, Al Purdy, Anne Cameron, Edith Iglauer, Patrick Lane, Grant Lawrence and others.

In its passion for storytelling about overlooked but crucial aspects of the past, Fifth Five serves as a fitting tribute to Harbour Publishing’s own deep history.