Born in 1941 at Campbell River, Alan Haig-Brown learned about water currents and spirits from the Campbell and Quinsam Rivers. In the 1960s the Assu family of Quadra Island took him out to learn the stories of coastal tides as a commercial fisherman. In the 1970 and '80s he went north to teach and learn in the plateau country along the Fraser and Chilcotin rivers. Since moving to live on the Fraser estuary he has written several books and many articles telling the stories of boats, the people who run them and the waters that they travel. Along the way he edited the Westcoast Fisherman magazine and founded the Westcoast Mariner and Westcoast Logger magazines. Today he splits his time between the Fraser at New Westminster and the Chao Phrya River at Bangkok. He continues to write and photograph boats and the people who make their lives on waters throughout the world. A recent book, published by Harbour in 2010, is Still Fishin'. His latest book is a novella that deals with forest stewardship and the people of the forests in Thailand and Canada. It is available only on line at Amazon.Web page: www.haigbrown.comHe is the grandson of Alan R. Haig-Brown, the son of Roderick Haig-Brown, the brother of Mary, Celia and Valerie Haig-Brown and the father of filmmaker Helen Haig-Brown.