Photography
"Canmore, Kananaskis, and the Canadian Rockies"
Explore the majestic beauty of the mountains with Canmore, Kananaskis and the Canadian Rockies, a vibrant photography book that provides a wonderful showcase of what it's like to live, work and play in this beautiful outdoor area. Pam Doyle's photographs depict people and wildlife enjoying this marvellous and spectacular wonderland along the easter …
"Sacred Balance, The"
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This outstanding book is based on David Suzuki and Amanda McConnell's best-selling The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature, a textual exploration of the web of life that unites all living things. This visual feast celebrates that connection in spectacular photographs, beautiful reproductions of artwork, and amazing electron micrograp …
"Sacred Headwaters, The"
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In a rugged knot of mountains in northern British Columbia lies a spectacular valley known to the First Nations as the Sacred Headwaters. There, three of Canada's most important salmon rivers — the Stikine, the Skeena, and the Nass — are born in close proximity. Now, against the wishes of all First Nations, the British Columbia government has …
111 West Coast Literary Portraits
111 West Coast Literary Portraits by Barry Peterson and Blaise Enright features rare portraits of emerging, midcareer and well-known writers who have lived in B.C., accompanied by excerpts of their writing. In 1997 Barry Peterson and Blaise Enright became obsessively curious about the characters behind the novels and poetry written by British Colum …
A Brief Time in Heaven
A nine-day fishing trip turns into a profound life-altering event and marks the beginning of a lifelong love affair with the untamed wilderness of Canoe Country in northwestern Ontario. Author Darryl Blazino describes how he became entranced by the beauty and wonder of a land that beckoned him back again and again.
This collection of personal storie …
A Camera on the Banks
“Together with five other men, I went out on the bowsprit to stow the jib after the downhaul and sheets had been manned. The canvas was flogging so violently that the stout bowsprit whipped like a sapling . . . we hung on with every finger a fishhook as the foaming water rose up to our knees.” As a young journalist in Montreal in 1911, Frederic …
