Debut novelist G. Stewart Nash, a south Hazelton surveyor, has recalled the first overland telegraph line that linked Asia to North America in the late 1860s.

The final unexplored stretch of 300 miles, north from Telegraph Creek along the Nass River watershed, accounts for his title, The Last Three Hundred Miles.

In this historical adventure novel, a surveyor named Stephen Doyle is hired by the Western Union Extension Company in San Francisco to map out a route for the link.

Nature, assassins and Bukwas block his path northward from Kispiox Village into the unknown. 0-920576-90-7

[BCBW Autumn 2001]