Bøger af Taylor Lambert

When river levels in southern Alberta surged far beyond expectations in June 2013, an area the size of Nova Scotia was flooded, causing unprecedented devastation. An elderly woman and her son are forced to flee as their home begins to give way to the water. A homeless man searches the dark, empty streets for shelter. Emergency responders use boats to pluck residents from half-submerged houses. Soldiers sandbag to rescue houses from erosion, while communities large and small rally to help their neighbours. These extraordinary portraits from a disaster form a glimpse of the remarkable time when Calgary and southern Alberta were brought to their knees and found a way to rise up again.

This book introduces readers to the colourful characters who populate the furniture moving trade, a male-dominated world of labour with relatively high pay and no need for education of any sort. Movers have a unique window into the private spaces of the city as they perform their difficult and delicate job inside all manner of homes, from government-subsidised housing developments to multi-million dollar McMansions. Taylor Lambert intriguingly explores class and work in a city that would rather focus on the wealth and prosperity brought to it by the oil and gas industry. Darwins Moving shows us the Other Calgary, a world populated by transient men and women struggling to survive in a boomtowns shadow.