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Kathleen Jones travelled to the islands of Haida Gwaii off the northernmost coastline of British Columbia, to visit a nation who have lived in harmony with their environment for more than ten thousand years. They have a saying, 'Everything is Connected', and their philosophy, Yah' Guudang, is about 'respect and responsibility, about knowing our place in the web of life, and how the fate of our culture runs parallel with the fate of the ocean, sky and forest people'. But there is a darker side to Haida history - the story of how the British Colonial administration reduced the population from more than twenty thousand to just over five hundred by a policy that has been identified as 'cultural genocide'.

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I did not want to return from the Haida, from their lands and the experience that she writes about so beautifully. It touched me in so many ways: the instincts of the nomad, the desire for solitude, the landscape as a beating heart of a nation, our lack of care of the land, the destruction, the horrors of colonialism, the joy of art, the wonders of the ocean . . Kathleen Jones reflects on so many of the questions we should be asking about our planet and how we live on it. Avril Joy, Costa award-winning novelist.

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Kathleen Jones is a novelist, biographer and poet living in the English Lake District. She is the author of more than fifteen books and is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow. Born and brought up on a small hill farm she spent more than ten years living in Africa and the Middle East, where she worked in English broadcasting. Her work has won a number of important prizes. 'A Passionate Sisterhood' (Virago) won the Barclays Bank Prize for Biography and her recent collection of poetry, 'Not Saying Goodbye at Gate 21' (Templar Poetry) won the Straid Award. Kathleen's biography of Catherine Cookson (Times Warner) was in the top 10 bestseller lists for more than 8 weeks. She now lives in an old mill beside one of northern England's major rivers and is a passionate environmentalist.

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