Once They Were Hats

Auteur

Frances Backhouse is the author of five books, including Children of the Klondike, winner of the 2010 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. She is also a veteran freelance magazine writer and teaches creative nonfiction at the University of Victoria. She lives in Victoria, B.C.

Texte du rabat

Rich in personal anecdote, layered with history and science, this colourful portrait sheds light on an incomparable ecosystem engineer, a fur-bearer that propelled three centuries of colonial development, and North America's most influential animal -- the beaver.