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Cougar Annie's Garden

By Margaret Horsfield

Cougar Annie's Garden Garden & Plants

Cougar Annie's Garden

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Cougar Annie s Garden tells the haunting tale of a five-acre garden in the wilderness of Vancouver Island s West Coast. Surrounded by rainforest and mountains, inaccessible and remote, this garden has endured for over eighty years. It is powerful with story, rich with legend and history, and Margaret Horsfield s book brings all these elements together in her critically-acclaimed book. Cougar Annie's Garden has been widely acclaimed in Canada since its publication. In 1915 Ada Annie Rae-Arthur came to this part of the coast as a pioneer settler. She set to work clearing the land. What emerged was no ordinary stump farm out in the bush, it was a vision, a dream and a passion. Slowly, over the years, a garden of strange, mesmerising beauty took shape in its clearing in the deep forest, featuring hundreds of varieties of imported shrubs and trees and perennials. Wily and stubborn , Ada Annie operated a mail-order nursery garden; she also ran a general store and a post office from her home. She bore eight of her eleven children here, and she outlived and outworked four husbands. A crack shot and a skilled trapper, she became a cougar bounty hunter, killing over seventy of the big cats. She became known as Cougar Annie. Until she was in her mid-nineties, she remained in her beloved garden, Many types of West coast lore, many strands of history combine in this book to weave together Cougar Annie s story. Many tales are told of the grim courage, blind hope and bitter losses that have shaped history here. Time plays ironic tricks on this isolated part of the coast. Failed enterprises lie rotting in the bush. The population has diminished. Settlements and homesteads have been abandoned. The ver landscape has been radically altered because of the logging in this part of Clayoquot Sound. People have left and dreams have died, all around here. Cougar Annie s Garden tells of a dream that has survived, and lives on.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
259
Release Date:
1999-08-01
Publication Date:
1999-08-01
Publisher:
Salal Books
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0969700814
Weight:
857 g
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