David Day (born 1947, Sooke, British Columbia) is a Canadian author most notable for his biographical books about J. R. R. Tolkien and his works. 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... Sooke is an incorporated community situated on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, Canada. ... J. R. R. Tolkien in 1972, in his study at Merton Street (from by H. Carpenter) John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (January 3, 1892 – September 2, 1973) is best known as the author of The Hobbit and its sequel The Lord of the Rings. ...

After finishing school in Victoria, British Columbia where he grew up he went to Vancouver Island where he worked as a logger for five years. After that he travelled to Europe, especially to Greece where he wrote a first book with his poems called "The Cowichan". He has also lived in London. Besides several childrens books and non-fiction books about ecology, extinct and endangered species his main interest was the life and work of Tolkien which included books like The Tolkien Bestiary (1978), The Tolkien Companion (1993), Tolkien's Ring (1994), The Hobbit Companion (2000), and Tolkien: The Illustrated Encyclopedia (2000). In The Doomsday Book of Animals (1981) he described several hundred extinct species and many of them where illustrated for the first time in color. His book Eco Wars (1989) is a sad accound about activists like Dian Fossey or Chico Mendes who lost their lives during their fight for the environment. His book The Whale War became the basis for a BBC documentary. The arms of Victoria. ... Vancouver Island is separated from mainland British Columbia by the Strait of Georgia and the Queen Charlotte Strait, and from Washington by the Juan De Fuca Strait. ... David Days Book Tolkiens Ring is a book written by David Day about the origins of Tolkiens Lord of the Rings story and the origins of Middle Earth in general. ... Dian Fossey (January 16, 1932 – December 26, 1985) was an American ethologist interested in gorillas. ... Francisco Alves Mendes Filho (December 15, 1944 – December 22, 1988), also known as Chico Mendes, was a Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the largest publicly-funded radio and television broadcasting corporation of the United Kingdom (see British television) and the world. ...

Works

• 1976: The Cowichan
• 1977: Men of the Forest
• 1977: An Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Indian Poetry
• 1981: The Doomsday Book of Animals
• 1987: The Whale War
• 1989: The Eco Wars: True Tales of Environmental Madness

External links

• Biography