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David Thomposon, 1770–1857.
Tom Shardlow is a research biologist who has more than thirty articles published in international scientific and technical journals. His diverse writing ranges from poetry and award-winning short fiction published in literary magazines to book reviews for Quill and Quire and Canadian Geographic. His freelance work, which includes creative drawings and photographs, often appears as feature articles in magazines and newspapers. Currently, he is working on two non-fiction books, one for children, the other a popular history of biology, and he is completing a science-fiction novel. Tom Shardlow lives with his family on Vancouver Island. Comments on his books may be sent to tomshardlow@shaw.ca
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Rachel Wyatt, Agnes Macphail: Champion of the Underdog.
On the treeless shore, David saw the smoke’s source. Five stone kilns were bellowing black clouds from smouldering seaweed as the wet green harvest was rendered by fire into fertilizer. He watched men and women struggling back and forth on the distant foreshore, carrying baskets of dripping seaweed to the kilns. Somehow harvesting seaweed made sense here, for nothing else but short green stubs of grass seemed to grow on the rocky grey landscape. Even the tiny cottages dotting the shoreline of small islands in the bay were made of rock and had sod covering their roofs.
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