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Collection on David Douglas
Collection of materials relating to David Douglas, including a photocopy of letter from David Douglas to William Smith, 1829 June 2, 4 pp., describing Douglas fir; photocopy of letter to Herbarium, British Museum of Natural History, 1827 Dec. 5, 1 p.; and photocopies of journal articles : "Extract from a private letter addressed to Captain Sabine,..."; "Observations on the Vultur californianus of Shaw" ; "An Account of a new species of Pinus, native of California..."; "Description of a new species of the genus Pinus," 1827-1834.
Olla-Piska
"Last night was one of the most dreadful I ever witnessed. ... Sleep of course was not to be had, every ten or fifteen minutes immense trees falling producing a crash as if the earth was cleaving asunder." "These words were written by David Douglas on October 25, 1826. The Royal Horticultural Society had sent him to the Pacific Northwest to find flowers, shrubs, and trees that would grow in English gardens. In his search for plants and seeds, he covered thousands of miles on foot and by canoe, enduring hunger, sickness, and cold. His courage and perseverance won the respect of fur trappers and voyageurs. Many of the local Indians were his friends. They called him Olla-piska, which means "fire" in the Chinook language." "In this historical novel, Anderson tells Douglas' story in the voices of several of his fellow travelers, including Sandy Ross, the cabin boy on the William and Ann; John Scouler, the ship's doctor; and T'Catisa, Chief Cockqua's daughter. Olla-piska introduces readers of all ages to an important botanist who explored the Columbia country early in the nineteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.
The Theory, Practice and Potential of Regional Development
Canadian regional development today involves multiple actors operating within nested scales from local to national and even international levels. Recent approaches to making sense of this complexity have drawn on concepts such as multi-level governance, relational assets, integration, innovation, and learning regions. These new regionalist concepts have become increasingly global in their formation and application, yet there has been little critical analysis of Canadian regional development policies and programs or the theories and concepts upon which many contemporary regional development strategies are implicitly based. This volume offers the results of five years of cutting-edge empirical...
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Gavin Douglas, The Palyce of Honour
At the end of the fifteenth century, Gavin Douglas devised his ambitious dream vision The Palyce of Honour in part to signal a new scope to Scottish literary culture. While deeply versed in Chaucer's writings, Douglas identified Ovid's Metamorphoses as a particularly timely model in the light of contemporary humanist scholarship. For all its comedy, The Palyce of Honour stands as a reminder to James IV of Scotland that poetry casts a powerful light upon the arts of rule.
