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Excerpt from Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water
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A perfect day in Vancouver’s Kitsilano
Wildlife
Wolf behaviour analysis: an excerpt from The Pipestone Wolves
People & Culture
Excerpt from Points of Interest: In Search of the Places, People, and Stories of BC
Wildlife
Excerpt from The Bee Mother
Environment
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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- 10 minutes
Environment
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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- 7 minutes
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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- 7 minutes
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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Wildlife
Wildlife
The ice walkers: Canada’s polar bears
An excerpt from Gloria Dickie’s book, Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future, which explores the planet’s eight remaining species of bears and the dangers they face
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Wildlife
An Indigenous perspective on the Canada jay
Arguments for the official recognition of the Canada jay as the country’s national bird
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- 5 minutes
Wildlife
Wildlife photographer spends five years following a wild wolf pack in Canada’s Kootenay National Park
In this beautifully illustrated photography book, Canadian wildlife photographer John E. Marriott documents a grey wolf pack throughout the seasons, showcasing the daily lives of the Kootenay wolves
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- 5 minutes
Wildlife
Walking away from the wild side
In a new book, Max Foran denounces Canada's failures in protecting its wildlife from human exploitation
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- 8 minutes
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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Excerpt from It Stops Here: Standing Up for Our Lands, Our Waters, and Our People
Sundance Chief and a member of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation Rueben George shares the personal account of one man’s confrontation with colonization
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- 8 minutes
History
Excerpt from Searching for Franklin: New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery
Arctic historian Ken McGoogan takes an in-depth, contemporary perspective on the legacy of Sir John Franklin, offering a new explanation of the famous Northern mystery
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- 10 minutes
People & Culture
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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- 9 minutes
History
Excerpt from Gone Viking III: The Holy Grail
Bestselling author Bill Arnott embarks on an extraordinary adventure, trekking the ancient world, unearthing Viking secrets and more to reveal history’s most elusive treasure, the holy grail
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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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- 3 minutes
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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- 8 minutes
Science & Tech
Telling mining’s story, beyond “sourdoughs and gold pans”
An exclusive excerpt from a new book, Mining Country, which promises to document in detail for the first time an industry critical to Canada’s past, present and future
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- 4 minutes
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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- 4 minutes
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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- 5 minutes