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 Shield. Thanks to these memoirs we are all there to witness these things with Dewdney.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 760/.092
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 1550022512 9781554881413
- LCCN
- N6549.D48
- LCCN Item number
- A2 1997eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (191 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00603085 (OCoLC)752412942 (CaOOCEL)410562
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOTU
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- List of Figures 7
- List of Plates 9
- Preface 10
- 1. First Love 12
- 2. A Few Acres of Snow 22
- 3. Bush Apprenticeship 32
- 4. History is Now 46
- 5. On the Edge of Another World 60
- 6 . Lac Seul Sagas 72
- 7. The Canoe 82
- 8. Up Shetland Creek 90
- 9. Bush Honeymoon 116
- 10. Men and Boys in the Mountains 130
- 11. Packing on the Pic 144
- 12. Boys in the Bush 154
- 13. Red Ochre 166
- 14. Island Quest 180
- Appendix: Radio Memoirs of Canon Sanderson 194
- Selected Publications of Selwyn Dewdney 200
