No other region in North America can outstrip British Columbia for the number of visionary, alternative settlement attempts made in the past 150 years.

Promise of Paradise: Utopian Communities in BC delves into the dramatic stories of these fascinating, often doomed efforts.

• Missionary William Duncan and Metlakatla
• The Norwegian colonies of Bella Coola and Quatsino
• Cape Scott and its Danish settlers
• The Finnish colony of Sointula on Malcolm Island
• The story of the Doukhobors
• Brother XII and the Aquarian Foundation
• The alternative experiments and communes of the 1970s
• Intentional communities in BC today

Whitecap Books, 1997, 224 pages, b&w photos, maps, index. Softcover, $17.95 Cdn