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As professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria and a research associate at the Royal BC Museum, Nancy J. Turner has written several books and articles on ethnobotany, including two companions to this book: Food Plants of Coastal First Peoples and Plant Technology of First Peoples in British Columbia.
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