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Robin Rowland

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in Tanzania, The United Republic of

June 17

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I’m an independent author, journalist and visual journalist, based in Kitimat, British Columbia,Canada.

I freelance as a photographer, writer, journalist, television producer and web/multimedia producer, serving northwestern British Columbia and the rest of the world.

My current nonfiction book is A River Kwai Story The Sonkrai Tribunal. I’m author of four previous books, including the first book on how to do research on the Interent.

Until March 2010, when I took early retirement, I worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s news division as the Photo Editor for CBC News and a producer for the news website CBCnews.ca.

From April 1998 until April 2007, I also worked as a producer of “The National” website. Before I joined the National, ...more

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	Citadels of Darkover 4.26 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crossroads of Darkover by Deborah J. Ross (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Robin Wayne Bailey, Jane M.H. Bigelow (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	King Of The Mob. Rocco Perri And The Women Who Ran His Rackets by James Dubro, Robin Rowland (Goodreads Author) 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1987 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Creative Guide to Research: How to Find What You Need Online or Offline really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A River Kwai Story The Sonkrai Tribunal 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Researching on the Internet: The Complete Guide to Finding, Evaluating, and Organizing Information Effectively by Robin Rowland (Goodreads Author), Dave Kinnaman it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1995	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday. I am usually at home watching a streaming movie and getting ready to go to bed just after ten.

This past Saturday at nine, I was watching Part 2 of the documentary Billy Joel: And So It Goes on Crave in Canada (HBO in the United States).

I seldom go out any more, no place to go. There’s also the saying that you know you’re getting old when you go to bed when you use

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A Place Called WriterL: Where the Conversation Was Always About Literary Journalism

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