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A Touch of Strange: Amazing Tales of the Coast

2 reviews
Dick Hammond

Harbour Publishing, 2002

Something of the Ancients
Having read the first two of Hammond's books, I had to have this one too and it didn't fail to disappoint, to say the least. I think A Touch of Strange is my favourite of all three of this real-life west-coast trilogy. It's grittier than the others and there are even more great characters -many old ones but several new ones too- than in the other two books combined, which I was not expecting. ...

Human System from Entropy to Ethics
Dick Hammond

Dick E. Hammond, 2005

The Human System will help educators classify energy, list the basic binding forces in the universe, compare the laws of energy and the laws of information, know how information differs from knowledge, conceptualize energy flow, teach how systems are classified, explain the differences between personal beliefs and scientific theories, comprehend how they use the entropy ethic and why they should.

Haunted Waters: Tales of the Old Coast

2 reviews
Dick Hammond

Harbour, 1999

One of the best short story collections I've ever read
I had been given a copy of this author's first book, Tales From Hidden Basin, in which Dick Hammond's father and uncle have many unusual boyhood adventures in the unexplored land of the west coast of Canada in the 1910s. In this, Hammond's second book (I believe), his father has grown up and leads a more or less solitary existence in his little boat, doing odd jobs and exploring more of this ...

Tales from Hidden Basin

2 reviews
Dick Hammond

Harbour Publishing, 1996

A Tom Sawyer in Canada!
I was very fortunate to be given a copy of this book for Christmas last year, as I don't think I would have found it for myself. It hasn't had nearly the attention it deserves, for if it had, we'd be seeing it everywhere. Two young lads growing up in one of the last frontiers to be discovered by the white man, having no end of fascinating adventures, these stories are all true (if Mr. Hammond ...