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Returning to the valley for A Season in the Okanagan
Bestselling author Bill Arnott embarks on a reflective journey through the Okanagan, blending travel narrative, personal memoir and Indigenous storytelling
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A revolutionary look at the most elemental force, water
In her new book, Theory of Water, renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson offers a vision of water as a catalyst for radical transformation, capable of birthing a new world
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Addressing the state of race in modern-day Canadian media
Journalist Christopher Cheung wants newsrooms to change how they cover stories
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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 Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water
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Excerpt from Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging
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The importance of forests for our survival
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Excerpt from Sweet in Tooth and Claw: Stories of Generosity and Cooperation in the Natural World
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Timber poaching: The secretive crime decimating North America’s forests
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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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People & Culture
Book Excerpt: From a Square to a Circle: Haida Basketry
Haida weaver Delores Churchill shares the stories of her life, her culture and the importance of passing cultural knowledge in this part memoir, part how-to guide
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Places
A perfect day in Vancouver’s Kitsilano
Bestselling author Bill Arnott takes readers for an exploratory stroll along Vancouver’s beloved beachside of Kitsilano as part of his new book, A Perfect Day for a Walk
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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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People & Culture
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Le rôle de la géographie dans la lutte pour l’indépendance des Autochtones
Dans « La leçon de Haida Gwaii : Un guide stratégique pour la souveraineté autochtone » (The Haida Gwaii Lesson : A Strategic Playbook for Indigenous Sovereignty), le journaliste primé Mark Dowie nous fait découvrir l’archipel Haida Gwaii et ses habitants
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How Haida Gwaii’s unique geography helped the Indigenous struggle for independence
In The Haida Gwaii Lesson: A Strategic Playbook for Indigenous Sovereignty, award-winning journalist Mark Dowie explores Haida Gwaii and the people who call it home
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History
The Alex Fraser Bridge: A critical link in British Columbia’s highway system
In his newest book, Incredible Crossings, renowned historian and best-selling author, Derek Hayes, combines hundreds of visuals with meticulously researched commentary to educate readers on the bridges, tunnels and inland ferries that connect British Columbia
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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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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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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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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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