In the Wake of the War Canoe (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Pacific Northwest Missionary Memoir of Haida Gwaii, Coastal First Nations, and Colonial EncounterBy W. H. Collison
Length14h
About this audiobook
In the Wake of the War Canoe is a vivid missionary memoir of the Pacific Northwest, recounting journeys among the Haida, Tsimshian, and neighbouring coastal peoples in the later nineteenth century. Written in a dramatic, adventure-inflected prose characteristic of Edwardian imperial religious literature, it combines travel narrative, conversion testimony, ethnographic observation, and colonial apologetic. Its descriptions of canoe warfare, village life, ritual practice, and maritime danger are compelling, though framed by the assumptions and prejudices of its missionary age. W. H. Collison was an Anglican missionary who spent decades on the coast of British Columbia, particularly in and around the Queen Charlotte Islands, now Haida Gwaii. His long residence, linguistic engagement, and participation in mission work gave him unusual access to Indigenous communities, while also shaping his interpretations through evangelical purpose. The book emerges from lived experience, but also from a desire to defend and memorialize the civilizing mission as he understood it. Readers interested in missionary history, colonial encounter, Indigenous-settler relations, or the literature of imperial adventure will find this a significant primary text. It should be read critically, but its narrative energy and historical detail make it valuable and revealing.
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Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length14 hrs
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 8, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
19CHAPTER XV
2WINNING A PRIMITIVE PEOPLE
20CHAPTER XVI
3PREFACE
21CHAPTER XVII
4AUTHOR'S PREFACE
22CHAPTER XVIII
5CHAPTER I
23CHAPTER XIX
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6CHAPTER II
24CHAPTER XX
7CHAPTER III
25CHAPTER XXI
8CHAPTER IV
26CHAPTER XXII
9CHAPTER V
27CHAPTER XXIV
10CHAPTER VI
28CHAPTER XXV
11CHAPTER VII
29CHAPTER XXVI
12CHAPTER VIII
30CHAPTER XXVII
13CHAPTER IX
31A Catalogue of Books on Art, History, and General Literature Published by Seeley, Service & Co Ltd. 38 Great Russell St. London
14CHAPTER X
32CATALOGUE OF BOOKS
15CHAPTER XI
33THE CROWN LIBRARY
16CHAPTER XII
34A Catalogue of Books for Young People, Published by Seeley, Service & Co Limited, 38 Great Russell Street, London
17CHAPTER XIII
35CATALOGUE OF BOOKS
18CHAPTER XIV
36SCIENCE FOR CHILDREN
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