Dick Hammond
Dick Hammond (b Gibsons BC March 16, 1929; d Sechelt BC Sept 10,2008)
Dick Hammond was born in 1929 and lived on the Sunshine Coast all his life. He worked as a handlogger and a timber cruiser's helper, and was a self-employed log salvor since 1955. He is the author of Tales from Hidden Basin and a contributor to Raincoast Chronicles Eleven Up, Raincoast Chronicles 17, and Raincoast Chronicles 18. In 2000 his book Haunted Waters was shortlisted for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Book Prize for best book about BC. Dick Hammond died September 10, 2008 in St. Mary's hospital, Sechelt.
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Haunted Waters: Tales of the Old Coast 978-1-55017-209-6 · 1-55017-209-3 · 1999 · $32.95 Shortlisted for the 2000 Haig-Brown Regional Book Prize |
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Tales from Hidden Basin 978-1-55017-136-5 · 1-55017-136-4 · 1996 · $17.95 "Written with uncommon power and vitality, these tales transcend their homestead and logging camp settings in much the same way as do Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn their Mississippi environs" -Vancouver Sun |
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A Touch of Strange: Amazing Tales of the BC Coast 978-1-55017-270-6 · 1-55017-270-0 · November 2001 · $32.95 "Tales that attain the same sort of mythic power that has made Wylie Blanchet's The Curve of Time a coastal classic." -Pacific Yachting |
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A Touch of Strange: Amazing Tales of the Coast 978-1-55017-241-6 · 1-55017-241-7 · June 2002 · $24.95 "Tales that attain the same sort of mythic power that has made Wylie Blanchet's The Curve of Time a coastal classic." -Pacific Yachting |