News Release

Three Rivers Shortlisted for a BC Book Prize

March 16, 2006 – Whitehorse – CPAWS-Yukon is pleased to announce that Three Rivers: The Yukon's Great Boreal Wilderness is a finalist for the 22nd annual BC Book Prizes, to be awarded on Saturday, April 29th, 2006 at the Lieutenant Governor’s BC Book Prizes Gala in Vancouver.

“Three Rivers: The Yukon’s Great Boreal Wilderness, a small masterpiece released … by Harbour Publishing, has photographs of the landscape that will take your breath away – and remind you of what it means to be Canadian.” Mark Hume, Globe & Mail

Three Rivers, edited by Juri Peepre and Sarah Locke, and published by Harbour Publishing in 2005, is shortlisted for the BC Booksellers’ Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie, sponsored by the BC Booksellers Association and Duthie Books. BC Book Prizes are awarded annually in seven categories for fiction and non-fiction books published in BC and the Yukon. Three Rivers celebrates the Yukon’s mountain boreal riches – home to grizzlies, wolves, caribou, peregrine falcons, wild waters and wildflowers. The book features the Three Rivers Journey that led to a national touring art exhibition, awe-inspiring photography, fine writings, and a bold new conservation vision for protecting the Three Rivers and Peel watershed, the northern anchor of the Yellowstone to Yukon region.

Three Rivers: The Yukon's Great Boreal Wilderness is a sumptuous anthology of imagery, art and written works with such notables as Margaret Atwood, John Ralston Saul, Brian Brett, Richard Nelson, plus Yukon writers Sarah Locke and Peter Lesniak. Photography by Fritz Mueller, Marten Berkman, Courtney Milne, Juri Peepre, Jannik Schou and Paul Nicklen among others. The book features art works by some of Canada’s best.

For more information on the BC Book Prizes, visit www.bcbookprizes.ca.

For more information on the Three Rivers project, go to www.cpawsyukon.org/three-rivers.

Three Rivers is available from the CPAWS-Yukon online store or your local bookstore.