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Emily Carr's BC: Vancouver Island
Emily Carr was an epic traveller. She covered more than 20,000 kilometres in British Columbia during a time when women rarely set off on their own—certainly not with the intention of visiting remote aboriginal villages. While this wanderlust and fearless sense of adventure fuelled her reputation as an eccentric, it also propelled her to become the artist and author we revere today. Laurie Carter set out to rediscover Vancouver Island by following Carr’s path, delving into the home life, landscapes and First Nations traditions that shaped the woman and her work. Emily Carr’s Vancouver Island is a personal journey to a new perspective, an exploration of Vancouver Island’s best-loved destinations and all-but-unknown outposts, and a fresh take on evolving life in this province.
- GenresArtTravelNonfiction
320 pages, Paperback
First published May 19, 2015
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About the author
Laurie Carter
12 books4 followersThis grandma wears hiking boots (and other fetching footwear) to seek cultural and eco-adventure. Since 2012 the award-winning writer and photographer has devoted her travel and research to beloved Canadian icon Emily Carr, making it her mission to introduce Carr to an ever wider audience. Along the way Carter has learned BC history, met amazing people, and gained even greater admiration for the woman she regards as an important role model for our times. Carter's latest book, "Timeless Emily Carr: Quotations for Life," honours the 150th anniversary of Emily Carr’s birth with a selection of the author/artist’s wit and wisdom; observations that remain relevant to this day. In her popular trilogy, Emily Carr's BC, Carter was able to combine her interest in Carr with her passion for travel. She has also channeled that love of travel into the fictional world of her Taylor Kerrick mysteries.
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November 21, 2019
Emily Carr’s B.C. Book One - Vancouver Island
Author: Laurie Carter
Publisher: Little White
288pp
$24.95
Too often we look for some kind of trauma to inform our knowledge of our cultural heros. Laurie Carter, in her series, Emily Carr’s B.C., makes a gratifying end run around this trend by seeking answers to Carr’s genius by following the Victoria painter’s travels rather than investigating her sorrows one more time.
There’s no question Carr had her own sorrows. Money problems plagued her throughout her life. Artistic credibility stalked her until Canada’s art consuming public awoke to Carr’s depictions of the West Coast environment and the First Nations’ tradition and art.
But this book traces Ms Carr’s ramblings from her early walks in Beacon Hill Park to her studies in San Francisco and her journeys to London and the continent for her studies.
Along the way Carter introduces you to a cast of characters courtesy of her own travels. You meet contemporary characters along with the historic players who colour this narrative. There is Mr. Baseball Cap who wants to chat about photography, the young Nuu-chah-nulth dancer Hjalmer Wenstob and Quatsino Museum curator, Gwen Hanson. Not only are you introduced to the human side of Emily Carr, but you sit down with Carr’s menagerie put into context by Carter.
You get a good feel for Vancouver Island, Victoria and Emily Carr herself. Carr’s paintings do a great deal to preserve the region’s history in the late 19th century and the first part of the 20th. But Carter goes further to mine Carr’s books for details of her family and non-professional life. Carr was a terrific writer and an early winner of the Governor General’s Award for Literature. In this, and the other two in the series, Carter distills the essence of Emily Carr’s life and makes you want to take up Klee Wyck or The House of All Sorts.
From booksellers throughout BC, reports keeps coming in that readers are not only enjoying the Emily Carr’s B.C. series for the insights provided into the environment behind Carr’s painting and writing, but they are also using these volumes as travel guides that go beyond where to find the most expensive luxury hotels and best restaurants, they form an intellectual guide to the intellectual and physical range traversed by one of Canada’s most singular artists.
Author: Laurie Carter
Publisher: Little White
288pp
$24.95
Too often we look for some kind of trauma to inform our knowledge of our cultural heros. Laurie Carter, in her series, Emily Carr’s B.C., makes a gratifying end run around this trend by seeking answers to Carr’s genius by following the Victoria painter’s travels rather than investigating her sorrows one more time.
There’s no question Carr had her own sorrows. Money problems plagued her throughout her life. Artistic credibility stalked her until Canada’s art consuming public awoke to Carr’s depictions of the West Coast environment and the First Nations’ tradition and art.
But this book traces Ms Carr’s ramblings from her early walks in Beacon Hill Park to her studies in San Francisco and her journeys to London and the continent for her studies.
Along the way Carter introduces you to a cast of characters courtesy of her own travels. You meet contemporary characters along with the historic players who colour this narrative. There is Mr. Baseball Cap who wants to chat about photography, the young Nuu-chah-nulth dancer Hjalmer Wenstob and Quatsino Museum curator, Gwen Hanson. Not only are you introduced to the human side of Emily Carr, but you sit down with Carr’s menagerie put into context by Carter.
You get a good feel for Vancouver Island, Victoria and Emily Carr herself. Carr’s paintings do a great deal to preserve the region’s history in the late 19th century and the first part of the 20th. But Carter goes further to mine Carr’s books for details of her family and non-professional life. Carr was a terrific writer and an early winner of the Governor General’s Award for Literature. In this, and the other two in the series, Carter distills the essence of Emily Carr’s life and makes you want to take up Klee Wyck or The House of All Sorts.
From booksellers throughout BC, reports keeps coming in that readers are not only enjoying the Emily Carr’s B.C. series for the insights provided into the environment behind Carr’s painting and writing, but they are also using these volumes as travel guides that go beyond where to find the most expensive luxury hotels and best restaurants, they form an intellectual guide to the intellectual and physical range traversed by one of Canada’s most singular artists.
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