Wild Nova Scotia
- Publisher
- Nimbus Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2007
- Category
- Regional
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781551096131
- Publish Date
- Jun 2007
- List Price
- $29.95
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Description
Nova Scotia has designated thirty-three Crown-owned areas as Wilderness Areas, consisting of about five percent of the provincial land-mass. The wilderness area designation means no mining or logging is allowed, but people are free to hunt, fish, hike, and camp as they have for generations. These Wilderness Areas- from the massive Tobeatic Wilderness Area that covers five counties to tiny McGill Lake- showcase the best of natural Nova Scotia, and Len Wagg has photographed them all for Wild Nova Scotia.
Over the last year and a half, Wagg spent close to a hundred days in the province's wilderness, logging over fifteen thousand kilometres and taking beautiful, telling portraits of the province's most secret and lovely places. Photos of important areas not designated Wilderness Areas are included as well- like the shores of the Northumberland Strait, where herds of seals find places along the shores to have their young; the Bay of Fundy, where world-class tides erode massive cliffs; Keji National Park, where the sounds campers hear are all natural; and Nova Scotia's "barren" Sable Island, home to birds, plants, seals and a herd of wild horses.
Each area has distinctive characteristics that make it unique. Wild Nova Scotia showcases the special places, protected or not, allowing people to bring home some of the amazing natural beauty of this province.
About the authors
Bob Bancroft is a wildlife biologist who consults for cbc's Maritime Noon.
Len Wagg is the author of ten books, including Nova Scotia at Night, Nova Scotia from the Air, and the national bestseller Stay the Blazes Home: Dispatches from Nova Scotia during the COVID-19 Pandemic. His photographs have appeared in such publications as the New York Times, Time Magazine, and Maclean's. The recipient of numerous Atlantic Journalism Awards, in 2008 Len also won the Mayor's Award for Excellence in Book Illustration for Wild Nova Scotia, his photographic portrait of the province's protected areas. He lives near Halifax, Nova Scotia.
For more information, visit lenwagg.com.
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Four Seasons of Nova Scotia
We Rise Again
More Stories of Hope and Resilience from Nova Scotia during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Stay the Blazes Home
Dispatches from Nova Scotia during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Little Book of Peggys Cove and the South Shore
Nova Scotia from the Air
Then and Now
White Point Then and Now
Ninety Years of Making Memories
Then & Now
Photographs of Nova Scotia by Wallace MacAskill & Len Wagg
Then and Now
Photographs of Nova Scotia
The Little Book of Nova Scotia
