The Protected Place

The Protected Place is a timeless and absorbing book. Within the framework of a calendar of the year, the author describes life at her isolated waterfront homestead on Cortes Island, British Columbia. Combining close observation of the natural world with reflection, research, vignettes of rural life and local history, this book is a celebration of place written by a woman deeply connected to the landscape by love and experience. Gilean Douglas was born in 1900 and lived to be 93. A poet, journalist, naturalist, farmer and feminist, her writing spans almost the entire twentieth century. The Protected Place, her classic depiction of coastal life, was first published in 1979.