Island Mountain Arts

Literary Reading - Richard Somerset Mackie

Richard Somerset Mackie is a freelance historian, biographer, and lecturer with a specialty in the BC past. He studied medieval history at St. Andrews University and has a PhD in Canadian history from UBC. He has also worked as an archaeologist and historical geographer in BC. Two of his four books—Trading Beyond the Mountains (UBC Press, 1997) and Island Timber (Sono Nis, 2000)—won the Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal, and Island Timber was also short-listed for the Haig-Brown Prize. His book Mountain Timber will be published by Sono Nis in 2008 and he will then start a biography of the Comox environmentalist Melda Buchanan.

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