A Perfect Eden protagonist Doroghy shares the joy

Doroghy shares the joy

and the wild beyond

Kathy Tsaples’s parents arrived in Australia as part of the early-1950s wave of immigrants from Greece and their household in Melbourne became a regular gathering place for the Greek families in their neighbourhood

who helped spearhead the change in legislation

so she agrees to tutor Carl Helbig

A Perfect Eden protagonist Doroghy shares the joyShortlisted for two 2016 BC Book Prizes Finalist for the 2016 Lieutenant Governors Medal for Historical Writing A compelling history of the earliest explorers to Vancouver Island, brought to life with illustrations and maps. In 1842, when explorer James Douglas encountered the rugged natural paradise that would become Vancouver Island, he described it as a perfect Eden." This book gathers the early recorded histories and personal accounts left by