Here and Gone - by Michael Kluckner (Paperback)

About the Book

Michael Kluckner explores surviving relics of old Vancouver and rural British Columbia, scenes like those in his award-winning, best-selling books from the 1990s and 2000s. Accompanying them are images of people and places that capture a kind of "Vancouver poetry," and artwork from his travel sketchbooks of journeys around the world.

Book Synopsis

Michael Kluckner had accumulated sketches of relics and houses of old Vancouver and rural British Columbia over a period of nine years. It was time to publish these creation like like those in his award-winning, best-selling books from the 1990s and 2000s in the frist section of the book called "Here." Accompanying them are images of people and places that capture his trademark kind of "Vancouver poetry." In the second section of the book, "Gone", Kluckner present us with artwork from his travel sketchbooks of journeys around the world that includes rural BC, Australia, Asia and Europe.

About the Author

Michael Kluckner's illustrated books include Vanishing Vancouver, detailed histories of Vancouver, Victoria and Toronto, a sketchbook of Canada's cultural landscapes, and memoirs of farm life. Also, by Michael Kluckner and Midtown Press are graphic novels set in British Columbia: The Rooming House; Toshiko and Julia set in the past; 2050 in the future; and a book of art entitled Here & Gone