The Last Island: A Naturalist's Sojourn on Triangle Island non-fiction memoir , written by Canadian writer Alison Watt , first published in September 2002 by Harbour Publishing . In the book, the author chronicles her return to Triangle Island, a bird sanctuary off the northern tip of Vancouver Island . Watt spent four months studying tufted puffins with her mentor Anne Vallee , returning 16 years later after Vallee's death. The Last Island is written in "beautiful language combined with watercolour paintings" with the power to "transport the reader to the island".[ 2]
Awards and honours
The Last Island received the "Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour " in June 2012, for "the best in Canadian humour writing".[ 3] Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction ".[ 2]
See also
References
^ Goodreads, The Last Island
^ a b Faculty of Arts, 2003, Edna Staebler Award Wilfrid Laurier University , Previous winners, Alison Watt, Retrieved 11/27/2012
^ The Leacock Associates, Overseeing the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for humour writing
External links
1990s
Susan Mayse , Ginger Marie Wadden , Nitassinan Liza Potvin , White Lies (for my mother) Elizabeth Hay , The Only Snow in Havana Linda Johns , Sharing a Robin's Life Denise Chong , The Concubine's Children George G. Blackburn , The Guns of Normandy Anne Mullens , Timely Death Charlotte Gray , Mrs. King Michael Poole , Romancing Mary Jane 2000s
Wayson Choy , Paper Shadows Taras Grescoe , Sacré Blues Tom Allen , Rolling Home Alison Watt , The Last Island Andrea Curtis , Into the Blue Anne Coleman , I'll Tell You a Secret Francis Chalifour , After Linden MacIntyre , Causeway Bruce Serafin , Stardust Russell Wangersky , Burning Down the House 2010s
John Leigh Walters , A Very Capable Life Helen Waldstein Wilkes , Letters from the Lost Joshua Knelman , Hot Art Carol Shaben , Into the Abyss Arno Kopecky , The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway (2014)Lynn Thomson , Birding with Yeats (2015)Ann Walmsley , The Prison Book Club (2016)Sonja Larsen , Red Star Tattoo (2017)Pauline Dakin , Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood (2018)Kate Harris , Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road (2019) 2020s
