Though unaffiliated with any institute of higher learning, Rolf Knight has established himself as a writer of significance, and has produced some of the most influential works of history of British Columbia.

In Voyage Through the Past Century, we have Knight's autobiographical account of his far-from-ordinary past. A journey from his early years as the only child at Musketeer Mine, through his move to northeast Vancouver where he attended school and entered University. Earning a PhD in Anthropology, and subsequent fieldwork in Northern Quebec constitute his formal schooling, but it was Knight's travels--upcoast as a youth, trips to Berlin, Nigeria, New York and Colombia--that shaped his politics and views.

Clear-eyed and fired, written with the verve and passion of a working-class activist, Voyage Through the Past Century is an engaging record of a fascinating life, and an indispensable account of a time and place that has marked our age, even as the events that shaped it fade into the past