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Excerpt from Two Springs, One Summer: A Year Inside the Life of a Chronic Adventurer
02Excerpt from Travels Up the Creek: A Biologist’s Search for a Paddle
03Excerpt from Manomin: Caring for Ecosystems and Each Other
04Excerpt from The Courage of Birds: And the Often Surprising Ways They Survive Winter
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Excerpt from Points of Interest: In Search of the Places, People, and Stories of BC
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Excerpt from It Stops Here: Standing Up for Our Lands, Our Waters, and Our People
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Sinking in the Far North
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Excerpt from The Greatest Comeback: How Team Canada fought back, took the Summit Series, and reinvented hockey
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Northern exposure: Tomson Highway recalls a childhood encounter with the sub-Arctic wind
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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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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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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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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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Wildlife
Wildlife
Wolf behaviour analysis: an excerpt from The Pipestone Wolves
Wolf behaviour expert and author Günter Bloch and renowned wildlife photographer John E. Marriott explore the rise and fall of Alberta’s Pipestone wolves
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Excerpt from The Bee Mother
In this beautifully illustrated book, readers will learn about the essential role of the bumblebee, honeybee and yellow jacket wasp in the Xsan ecosystem
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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The meaning of ice
In his new book, Klaus Dodds delves into the fascinating natural and cultural history of ice
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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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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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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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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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