Personal Memoirs
!["Bear's Embrace, The"](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/books/b/bear-s-embrace-the/9781553655947_cover/52250510-1-eng-CA/9781553655947_cover_coverbookpage_embed.jpg ""Bear's Embrace, The"")
"Bear's Embrace, The"
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On a sunny fall day in 1983, Patricia Van Tighem and her husband, Trevor Janz, were brutally attacked by a bear while hiking in the Canadian Rockies. Janz was severely hurt, but Van Tighem suffered even more serious, disfiguring injuries, and that she survived was a miracle.
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A gifted writer, Van Tighem crafted a vivid and startling account of the …
!["Endangered Species Road Trip, The"](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/books/e/endangered-species-road-trip-the/9781553659358_cover/52196508-1-eng-CA/9781553659358_cover_coverbookpage_embed.jpg ""Endangered Species Road Trip, The"")
"Endangered Species Road Trip, The"
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A roadtrip to the edge of extinction, told with the humour and insight of Bill Bryson.
Crammed into a minivan with wife, toddler, infant, and dog, Cameron MacDonald sets out on a journey to observe North America's rarest species. In California, the family camps in the brutally hot Mojave, where MacDonald hopes to see a rare desert tortoise. And in …
"Hunter's Confession, A"
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A Hunter's Confession tells the story of hunting-both its history and the role it has played in David Carpenter's own life, including the reasons he once loved it and the dramatic hunting incident that made him give up hunting for good.
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Winding through this narrative is Carpenter's exploration of the history of hunting, subsistence hunting versus …
!["Hunter's Confession, A"](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/books/h/hunter-s-confession-a/9781553658252_cover/52895818-1-eng-CA/9781553658252_cover_coverbookpage_embed.jpg ""Hunter's Confession, A"")
!["Passionate Gardener, The"](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/books/p/passionate-gardener-the/9781553651987_cover/52481896-1-eng-CA/9781553651987_cover_coverbookpage_embed.jpg ""Passionate Gardener, The"")
"Passionate Gardener, The"
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The 13 short pieces featured in Passionate Gardener roam widely and wildly, examining, among other things, common idiosyncrasies and the collective chaos of garden clubs, the host of psychopathologies that afflict ""plants people,"" and obsessive-compulsive behavior such as the chronic moving of plants. This is an irreverent exploration of the fie …
!["Place between the Tides, A"](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/books/p/place-between-the-tides-a/9781553650355_cover/52266545-1-eng-CA/9781553650355_cover_coverbookpage_embed.jpg ""Place between the Tides, A"")
"Place between the Tides, A"
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Based upon childhood memory and his naturalist's journals, A Place between the Tides is the story of Harry Thurston's return to the beloved environment of his boyhood when he moves to the Old Marsh on the banks of the Tidnish River in Nova Scotia. The book describes the seasons in the life of the marsh as filtered through two decades of Thurston's …
!["Way of a Gardener, The"](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/books/w/way-of-a-gardener-the/9781553654179_cover/53025613-1-eng-CA/9781553654179_cover_coverbookpage_embed.jpg ""Way of a Gardener, The"")
"Way of a Gardener, The"
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A personal and revealing exploration of a life lived close to the earth, from one of Canada's best-loved gardeners.
Called ""a green-thumb rogue"" (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), accomplished novelist, satirist, and garden writer Des Kennedy describes his life journey from a childhood of strict Irish Catholicism in Britain to a charmed existence amid …
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163256: A Memoir of Resistance is Michael Englishman’s astonishing story of courage, resourcefulness, and moral fibre as a Dutch Jew during World War II and its aftermath, from the Nazi occupation of Holland in 1940, through his incarceration in numerous death and labour camps, to his eventual liberation by Allied soldiers in 1945 and his emigrat …
