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  • Chasing Clayoquot

    A Wilderness Almanac

    First published in 2004, and now with a new introduction by the author and a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., this book of natural history, environmentalism, and politics explores one of the Earth's last primeval places: Clayoquot Sound. Pitt-Brooke takes the reader on 12 journeys, one for each month of the year. Each journey covers the outstanding natural event of that season, such as whale ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crossing Home Ground

    A Grassland Odyssey through Southern Interior British Columbia

    Like John Muir, David Pitt-Brooke stepped out for a walk one morning-a long walk of a thousand kilometres or more through the arid valleys of southern interior British Columbia. He went in search of beauty and lost grace in a landscape that has seen decades of development and upheaval. In Crossing Home Ground he reports back, providing a day-by-day account of his journey’s experiences, from the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Cadillac Desert

    The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition

    **“I’ve been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite the pouring heavens, seems likely to remain in the grip of a severe drought. Reisner anticipated this moment. He worried that the West’s success with irrigation could be a mirage — that it took water for granted and didn’t appreciate the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Horses, Trails and Trophies

    by Del Burk ...
    Del Burk farmed, ranched and guided big-game hunters in some of the richest wild-life areas of Canada. The biography covers a recent patch of history, but a patch already gone. The farm equipment he knew now belong in museums, and the ranching practices of the fifties and sixties have largely simply disappeared. Where Del's big-game guiding experiences took him over trails meant only for horses, ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

    A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is both a remembrance of an intensely spiritual moment in Henry David Thoreau's life and a memoriam to his older brother who accompanied him on the trip shortly before his death. Full of fascinating literary musings and philosophical speculations, this book is a true precursor to Walden. ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Newfoundland Travel Adventures

    This deals mainly with Canada's Newfoundland province, the sights, the activities, where to stay and much more. It is based on our much larger guide to all the Atlantic Provinces. Hiking, trout and salmon fishing, skiing, snowmobiling, cycling, kayaking, exploring, puffin spotting � discover all these adventures and more in a world of pristine waters, rugged slopes, breathtaking seascapes, ... Read more

    $7.68 CAD

  • Lost and Found

    Adrift in the Canadian Rockies

    For many people, moving to a mountain town is the realization of a dream, the final step in a pilgrimage to a relaxed lifestyle in a rugged and beautiful setting. After a long journey that began when he was a teenager in the 1980s with the vague idea there might be a better life somewhere “out west,” Jamey Glasnovic eventually fled the chaos and stress of the big city and tried to settle into an ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Rafting the River of No Return Wilderness - The Middle Fork of the Salmon River

    by Thomas Walsh ...
    Exciting fun and humorous family adventure vacation story. A wild and challenging raft trip my children and I took through the River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River. From planning for the trip travel by small plane fascinating river guides and mixed bag of clients to running wild white-water rapids spills and thrills on the river wildlife encounters camping ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The End of the River

    Dams, Drought and Déjà Vu on the Rio São Francisco

    by Brian Harvey ...
    "[Harvey] may have created a new literary genre: science travel writing . . . travelogue, autobiography, history, and even fantasy romp alongside the biology" ( Quill & Quire).When biologist Brian Harvey saw a thousand fish blundering into a Brazilian dam, he asked the obvious: What's going to happen to them? The End of the River is the story of his long search for an answer.Harvey takes readers ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Calgary

    by Holiday FM ...
    This is the official Holiday FM Guide to Calgary. This handy bitesize guide gives you everything you might want for the ideal trip to the big city. Background information about the history of the City will hopefully give you a better understanding of its origins and make your visit more enjoyable. Get local information about the must see sightseeing places to visit to help make your trip ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD

  • The Peace in Peril

    The Real Cost of the Site C Dam

    In the next decade, a 60-metre-high wall of compacted earth will stretch more than a kilometre across the main stem of the Peace River, causing the waters behind it to swell into a 93-square-kilometre artificial lake, drowning the best topsoil left in the BC north. The waters will swallow fifty islands and a valley that is home to farmers, ranchers, trappers and habitat to innumerable creatures ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Story of the Thames

    500,000 Years in the Life of a River. The longest river in England, the Thames, has witnessed the entire history of a country and its capital. The Story of the Thames looks at history from the river’s perspective, investigating how the life of the nation has affected the river and, in turn, how the river has been viewed by those who live along its length. In doing so it spans 500,000 years (longer ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD