The Lost Coast ― Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture

Somewhere Between Joyous affirmation of British Columbia's splendour and momentous grief for the destruction of a once-thriving salmon culture comes the newest work from acclaimed poet and novelist Tim Bowling. The Lost Coast is a lyrical, impassioned lament for the home Bowling once knew and for the river that continues to haunt his imagination.
Raised in Ladner, BC, in a gillnetting family Bowling was a fisherman himself until the mid-1990s. The loss of the West Coast's traditional resource-industry culture is felt deeply by Bowling as a betrayal of his birthright and a decimation of our heritage. With a poet's attention to details of the spirit, and a novelist's flair for character and story, Tim Bowling elevates his cherished homeland to the realm of enduring myth.
What is the story behind the pioneers who built this country? What is the secret life of the killer whale and the great blue heron? And above all else, who caused, and continues to hasten, the diminishment of the Pacific salmon, one of North America's most totemic creatures?