Dutch-born Bill Endert, also of Sechelt, has melded autobiography into fiction with The Timbercruisers ($13.95), based on the author's experiences as a worker in the coastal forest industry. "It was the toughness of the job, the people, the danger and the beauty that compelled me to record all of this,"; he says. 0-9686865-0-8

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