Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library is pleased to host Nova Scotian author Harry Thurston.

As PARL’s third Writer-In-Residence award-winning journalist, poet, non-fiction writer, and editor, Harry Thurston, will bring a wealth of writing experience to our growing community of writers.

Over his twenty-five year career as a non-fiction writer he has written nine environmental books and has been a regular contributor to national magazines such as Canadian Geographic, Harrowsmith, Audubon, Equinox, and National Geographic.

Harry Thurston will be available from October 1st, 2006 to April 6th, 2007. For more information contact our programming department at (902) 755-6031.
 

Titles by Harry Thurston:

• The Nature of Shorebirds: Nomads of the Wetlands

• Tidal Life: A Natural History of the Bay of Fundy

• Island of the Blessed: The Secrets of Egypt’s Everlasting Oasis

• A Ship Portrait

• The Sea's Voice: An Anthology of Atlantic Canadian Nature Writing.

• A Place Between the Tides: A Naturalist's Reflections on the Salt Marsh

• If Men Lived On Earth.

• The Nature of Shorebirds, Nomads of the Wetlands.

• Dawning of the Dinosaurs: the story of Canada's oldest dinosaurs

• Against Darkness and Storm: Lighthouses of the Northeast

• Atlantic Outposts.

• Barefaced Stone

• Building the Bridge to P.E.I.

• Atlantic Canada Nature Guide

• The Sea Among the Rocks: travels in Atlantic Canada