Cougar Annie’s Garden tells the haunting tale of a five-acre garden in the wilderness of Vancouver Island’s West Coast. Surrounded by rainforest and mountains, inaccessible and remote, this garden has endured for over eighty years. It is powerful with story, rich with legend and history, and Margaret Horsfield’s book brings all these elements together in her critically-acclaimed book. Cougar Annie's Garden has been widely acclaimed in Canada since its publication. 
In 1915 Ada Annie Rae-Arthur came to this part of the coast as a pioneer settler. She set to work clearing the land. What emerged was no ordinary stump farm out in the bush, it was a vision, a dream and a passion. Slowly, over the years, a garden of strange, mesmerising beauty took shape in its clearing in the deep forest, featuring hundreds of varieties of imported shrubs and trees and perennials. 
Wily and stubborn , Ada Annie operated a mail-order nursery garden; she also ran a general store and a post office from her home. She bore eight of her eleven children here, and she outlived and outworked four husbands. A crack shot and a skilled trapper, she became a cougar bounty hunter, killing over seventy of the big cats. She became known as Cougar Annie. Until she was in her mid-nineties, she remained in her beloved garden, 
Many types of West coast lore, many strands of history combine in this book to weave together Cougar Annie’s story. Many tales are told of the grim courage, blind hope and bitter losses that have shaped history here. 
Time plays ironic tricks on this isolated part of the coast. Failed enterprises lie rotting in the bush. The population has diminished. Settlements and homesteads have been abandoned. The ver landscape has been radically altered because of the logging in this part of Clayoquot Sound. People have left and dreams have died, all around here. 
Cougar Annie’s Garden tells of a dream that has survived, and lives on. Against all odds, this remarkable garden has outlived its equally remarkable owner. Although it was radically overgrown at the time of her death in 1985, it has now been completely restored, and now enters a new era. Thriving with fresh energy and beauty, the garden stands sentinel on this part of the coast, an indomitable survivor. 
The non-profit Boat Basin Foundation is taking over ownership and administration of the garden, its aim being to preserve the garden and to establish a site for botanical field study in Clayoquot Sound. Construction on study cabins has now begun and the first group of students, from San Francisco, has already spent time at the garden on a study trip. 
This is Margaret Horsfield’s fourth book. It features art work by Takao Tanabe and Briony Penn and a foreword by Peter C. Newman. In the spring of 2000 this book received the Roderick Haig-Brown award for best book about British Columbia during the past year; it was also shortlisted for the Hubert Evans non-fiction prize and it was runner-up for the Lieutenant-Governor’s medal for historical writing about British Columbia. 
The book is a full colour production, with over 100 colour pictures and 50 black and whites.

Cougar Annie's Garden

History

Horsfield, Margaret

Americas

Salal Books

pp. xvii 365.b/w illustrations .heavy book additional postage may apply. SIGNED by the author on title page.

Voices from the Sound : Chronicles of Clayoquot Sound and Tofino, 1899-1929

Girls in the 90's: Facilitator's Manual

Sandra Susan Friedman

JUST FOR GIRLS is an open discussion group program which addresses what happens to girls in the process of growing up female that silences them and encourages them to redefine themselves by the numbers on the bathroom scale. The program looks at what feeling fat means to girls, teaches them skills to decode the language of fat and encourages them to tell the stories and express the feelings that lie underneath. It helps girls understand the societal pressures that they face during adolescence and the physical and emotional changes they are experiencing. It provides them with an awareness of their own bodies that goes beyond relating to themselves solely in terms of how they look. It teaches girls how to strengthen their friendships and support one another. The manual contains the complete blueprint for the program, 18 structured session plans and 25 reproducible handouts.

Just for Girls : A Program to Help Girls Safely Navigate... Adolescence and Avoid Pitfalls Such As Eating Disorders

Self-Help

Friedman, Sandra Susan

Eating Disorders & Body Image

Body Thieves examines topics concerning girls in adolescence relating to body image issues and physical activity. It provides parents and teachers and coaches with an understanding of girls' development. It describes a comprehensive model of eating disorder prevention and provides information about helping girls in your life deal with the stressors they face during their teenage years. It details how to get girls off diets, how to normalize food and body image, how to translate fat talk and how to defuse the propaganda power of the media. 
The book discusses why some girls are naturally fat and how to help them maintain their self-esteem. It addresses myths developing around 'childhood obesity' and argues that it is our pervasive dieting culture and lack of physical activity that put girls at risk. A major emphasis of the book is on overcoming barriers that stand in the way of girls being physically active. 
Body Thieves includes a substantial listing of information and institutional resources, and throughout the book there are practical skills and strategies for use with girls. 
The overall message to the reader: how to get connected with girls, get them off their diets and get them out being physically active.

Body Thieves