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Excerpt from Under the White Gaze
Journalist Christopher Cheung investigates the state of race in modern-day Canadian media
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Excerpt from Two Springs, One Summer: A Year Inside the Life of a Chronic Adventurer
Renowned adventurer Frank Wolf takes readers on an epic journey through Canada’s unforgiving northern wilderness
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Excerpt from Travels Up the Creek: A Biologist’s Search for a Paddle
Biologist Lorne Fitch engages readers in a collection of essays reshaping perspectives on environmental stewardship toward a sustainable future
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Excerpt from Manomin: Caring for Ecosystems and Each Other
Grounded in Indigenous methodologies, Manomin examines our interconnectedness with the natural world
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Wildlife
Excerpt from The Courage of Birds: And the Often Surprising Ways They Survive Winter
Award-winning birder and acclaimed writer Pete Dunne explores how birds in North America have adapted to survive the challenges of the winter season
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Wolf behaviour analysis: an excerpt from The Pipestone Wolves
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Excerpt from The Bee Mother
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The ice walkers: Canada’s polar bears
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An Indigenous perspective on the Canada jay
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Wildlife photographer spends five years following a wild wolf pack in Canada’s Kootenay National Park
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Walking away from the wild side
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Travel
Excerpt from A Season on Vancouver Island
Complete with digitally painted photographs, Bill Arnott’s new travel memoir explores British Columbia’s southern Gulf Islands and Vancouver Island
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Excerpt from Gone Viking II: Beyond Boundaries
An excerpt from Bill Arnott’s follow up to best selling travelogue Gone Viking: A Travel Saga
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Excerpt from Gone Viking: A Travel Saga
Bill Arnott guides readers on an epic literary odyssey following history’s most feared and misunderstood voyageurs: the Vikings!
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Places
The landscapes that inspired “Anne of Green Gables”
In giving Anne Shirley her own deep love of and connection to Prince Edward Island, Lucy Maud Montgomery reveals the way place can fire the imagination
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Environment
Environment
Excerpt from Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water
Award-winning journalist Amorina Kingdon explores how marine animals use sound to survive and the ways humans are impacting critical underwater soundscapes
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Environment
Excerpt from Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging
Nature writer Jessica J. Lee combines memoir, history and scientific research in her newest book, exploring how plants and people come to belong
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Environment
The importance of forests for our survival
An in-depth look at how trees work to keep us alive and the value of old-growth forests
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Excerpt from Sweet in Tooth and Claw: Stories of Generosity and Cooperation in the Natural World
A look into the subtle ways nature is in constant collaboration and not as competitive as we think
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Environment
Timber poaching: The secretive crime decimating North America’s forests
Timber poaching has become “a problem in every national forest,” with an estimated $1 billion worth of wood poached yearly in North America
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Sinking in the Far North
Roy MacGregor, one of Canada’s greatest journalists, shares the stories behind the stories in his new book, Paper Trails: From the Backwoods to the Front Page, a Life in Stories
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Excerpt from The Greatest Comeback: How Team Canada fought back, took the Summit Series, and reinvented hockey
Through fresh reporting and new perspectives, best-selling author John U. Bacon captures some of the best moments in Canadian sports history
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Northern exposure: Tomson Highway recalls a childhood encounter with the sub-Arctic wind
Born into a nomadic, caribou-hunting Cree family in northern Manitoba, acclaimed playwright and novelist Tomson Highway pays tribute to the magical world of his childhood in Permanent Astonishment
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The poetry and resilience of Colombia’s Magdalena River
An exclusive excerpt from renowned Canadian anthropologist Wade Davis’ new book Magdalena: River of Dreams, about the iconic waterway that has shaped the geography, culture and people of Colombia
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Living off-grid in Canada’s North
In her memoir, Voice in the Wild, journalist Laurie Sarkadi shares stories from her nearly 30 years living off-grid in the Subarctic, with wolves, bears and caribou as her neighbours
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Wildlife
New book explores the secret emotional lives of animals
In his new book The Inner Life of Animals, Peter Wohlleben offers a compassionate glimpse into the surprisingly complex emotional lives of creatures both wild and domestic
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Exploration
The incredible true story of Canada’s Kon-Tiki
The Raftsmen tells the remarkable (and once nearly forgotten) story of how four French expats living in Canada became the first to cross the North Atlantic by raft
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Environment
The meaning of ice
In his new book, Klaus Dodds delves into the fascinating natural and cultural history of ice
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Environment
On the trail of the “Kings of the Yukon”
Adam Weymouth's first book, Kings of the Yukon, sees him paddle the length of the Yukon River to trace the route of migrating chinook salmon
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Landslides, loggers and bears: What it’s really like to be a tree planter
In his new book, Highballer: True Tales from a Treeplanting Life, Greg Nolan recounts his rollicking, rewarding and often risky career as a tree planter in British Columbia and Alberta.
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