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Author Dewdney, Selwyn H.

Title Daylight in the swamp : memoirs of Selwyn Dewdney / edited by A.K. Dewdney
Published Toronto ; Buffalo, NY : Dundurn Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (191 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents List of Figures; List of Plates; Preface; 1. First Love; 2. A Few Acres of Snow; 3. Bush Apprenticeship; 4. History is Now; 5. On the Edge of Another World; 6 . Lac Seul Sagas; 7. The Canoe; 8. Up Shetland Creek; 9. Bush Honeymoon; 10. Men and Boys in the Mountains; 11. Packing on the Pic; 12. Boys in the Bush; 13. Red Ochre; 14. Island Quest; Appendix: Radio Memoirs of Canon Sanderson; Selected Publications of Selwyn Dewdney
Summary Daylight in the Swamp is the bush memoirs of Selwyn Dewdney, a noted Canadian artist and recorder of native rock art. His two great loves, art and the Canadian north, come together in this book. His respect for native culture and art is reflected in his own work, his insight into native rock art, and his passion for canoeing and the northern experience. The third theme of the book is history spanning the period from 1910 through to the 1970s during which the old north largely vanished. Dewdney was there to record the images of forgotten dreams painted on rocks and cliffs throughout the Canadian
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 191)
Notes Print version record
Subject Dewdney, Selwyn H.
SUBJECT Dewdney, Selwyn H. fast
Subject Artists -- Canada -- Biography
Artists -- Canada -- Biography
ART -- Techniques -- Printmaking.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Artists, Architects, Photographers.
DESIGN -- Graphic Arts -- General.
Artists
SUBJECT Canada, Northern -- In art
Subject Canada
Northern Canada
Genre/Form Electronic books
e-books.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Art
Biographies
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Livres numériques.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Dewdney, A. K.
ISBN 9781554881413
1554881412
9781459714885
1459714881