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Genius of Place combines history, landscape, politics and culture in an astonishing portrait of British Columbia. The work of the 30 contributors span two centuries and are as complex and diverse as their subject. Included are contributions from explorer Simon Fraser, naturalist Roderick Haig-Brown, memoirist Muriel Kitigawa, social commentator George Woodcock, architect Arthur Erikson, humorists Eric Nicol, and many more.

The legend of Beatrice Cenci has intrigued writers such as Antonin Artaud, Stendhal, Mary Shelley, Alexandre Dumas, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, and Kathy Acker. In Beatrice Chancy, a verse play set in Nova Scotia in 1819, Clarke boldly reimagines Beatrice as the daughter of a white master and a black slave.