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Kreisel Lecture Series #2: Old Lost Land of Newfoundland (The)
Wayne Johnston
Wayne Johnston
Wayne Johnston discusses the myths and realities of his native Newfoundland. A master storyteller, Johnston peppers his lecture with impromptu asides, delighting his readers with true tales and well-spun yarns.
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Landscapes of the Heart: Narratives of Nature and Self
Michael Aleksiuk & Thomas Nelson
Michael Aleksiuk & Thomas Nelson
What impact does nature have on our personal well-being and how does our interaction with the environment shape who we are and how we connect with our world?
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Last Great Forest (The)
Larry Pratt & Ian Urquhart
Larry Pratt & Ian Urquhart
The story of the Alberta government’s decision to develop the Northern boreal forest and of the ensuing battles between multinational developers, environmentalists, Native groups, and sawmillers over the rights to exploit the timber resources.
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Listening to Trees
A.K. Hellum
A.K. Hellum
Combining personal experience with concrete fact, A.K. Hellum’s Listening to Trees tells the story of a man’s lifelong journey to salvage today’s declining forests.
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Long Trail (The): The Story of a Pioneer Family
Beulah Baldwin
Beulah Baldwin
This biographical account of the lives of the Freelands by their daughter begins with their 1913 winter trek to the hinterlands of Peace River from Edmonton to purchase a hotel sight unseen.
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Lyric/Anti-lyric: essays on contemporary poetry
Doug Barbour & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
Doug Barbour & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
The very best of Barbour’s criticism over the past two decades, Lyric/Anti-lyric is the latest addition to the Writer as Critic series, edited by Smaro Kamboureli.
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Mothertalk: Life Stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka
Roy Kiyooka
Roy Kiyooka
In 1993 Mary Kiyooka sat with her son Roy Kiyooka, one of Canada’s most important avant-garde painters, with a tape recorder. In her native Japanese, she shared with him the fascinating memories of her migration to Canada.
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Nahanni Remembered
A.C. Lewis
A.C. Lewis
The author recounts the four months he and a friend spent at a trapping camp in the Nahanni Valley.
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Nothing but Brush Strokes: Selected Prose
Phyllis Webb & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
Phyllis Webb & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
This collection chronicles Phyllis Webb's struggle with the creative process and her intense need to probe beneath the surface of things.
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Pacific Rim Letters
Roy Kiyooka
Roy Kiyooka
This never before published work is a travel diary, cultural manifesto and unique post-modern collection of personal meditations.
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Paddling South: Winnipeg to New Orleans by Canoe
Rick Ranson
Rick Ranson
In the Fall of 1969, Rick Ranson and John Van Landeghem, both barely out of high school, took on the might of the Red and Mississippi Rivers to paddle a canoe from Winnipeg, Manitoba, to New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Playing Dead: A Contemplation Concerning the Arctic
Rudy Wiebe
Rudy Wiebe
A new edition of Rudy Wiebe’s 1989 book of essays, featuring two new essays and an afterword by Robert Kroetsch. This is the first book in the Landmark Editions Series.
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Readings from the Labyrinth
Daphne Marlatt & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
Daphne Marlatt & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
From one of Canada's foremost poet/novelists and feminist critics–a collection of essays spanning over fifteen years.
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Return to the Drum: Teaching Among the Dene in Canada's North
Miggs Wynne Morris
Miggs Wynne Morris
Return to the Drum is the real life adventure of Miggs Morris, who, as a young teacher in 1965, accepts a position to live and teach in the Northwest Territories.
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Ride the Rising Wind: One Woman's Journey Across Canada
Barbara Kingscote
Barbara Kingscote
In May 1949, at the age of twenty, Barbara Kingscote left her farm in Mascouche, Quebec, and set out for the Pacific Ocean on horseback, reaching the West Coast just over a year later.
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River Time: Racing the Ghosts of the Klondike Rush
John Firth
John Firth
The gripping story of the 1997 race from Dyea, Alaska to Dawson City, that re-enacted the Gold Rush. John Firth went in search of the experience that his grandfather, one of the original stampeders, had on his quest for gold.
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Salal: Listening for the Northwest Understory
Laurie Ricou
Laurie Ricou
Salal is a unique book about a commonplace plant. Part travel narrative, part literary memoir, part “ethnography” of a plant that usually goes unnoticed, Laurie Ricou’s book traces the poetry and culture of salal.
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Signature Event Cantext - The Writer as Critic Series: II
Stephen Scobie & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
Stephen Scobie & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
These essays amount to a demonstration of the coherence and profundity of Derriean thought and its utility as a miethod of studying Canadian literature.
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Smoke in the Cockpit: The Flying Adventures of Don 'Smokey' Pa
H.J. Smith
H.J. Smith
A Canadian aviation history at its best. Raised in Western Canada, Patry began flying professionally in 1937 over the uncharted mountainous territory of Alberta, BC, and the North West Territories.
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Snow Bodies: One Woman's Life on the Streets
Elizabeth Hudson
Elizabeth Hudson
The timely memoir of a troubled young woman who through drug dependence turns to a life of prostitution on the streets of Calgary and Vancouver.
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So this is the world and here I am in it
Di Brandt & Edited by Smaro Kamboureli
Di Brandt & Edited by Smaro Kamboureli
A stunning collection of creative essays by poet and critic Di Brandt. Written over a period of ten years, these essays circle around questions of exile and violence, eros and wildness, land and mentoring, home and language.
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Those Who Know: Profiles of Alberta's Native Elders
Dianne Meili
Dianne Meili
A re-telling of Meili’s interviews with Alberta’s Native Elders.
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Trail of the Spirit: The Mysteries of Medicine Power Reveal
George Blondin
George Blondin
In this new collection of stories, Dene Elder George Blondin defines medicine power, a gift from the Creator for the Dene way of life.
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Transcanada Letters
Roy Kiyooka
Roy Kiyooka
A unique collection of personal meditations and intimate dialogues with close friends. This new edition, combined with Pacific Rim Letters shows Kiyooka’s process of writing and the artistic and literary communities he was involved with.
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Unmarked
Sarah de Leeuw
Sarah de Leeuw
A finely crafted exploration of the cultural geography of overlooked and often unknown terrain along British Columbia’s Highway 16. Sarah de Leeuw uses the experiences of her own life in these remote locations to map difficult and often raw realities.
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Watershed: Reflections on Water
Grant MacEwan
Grant MacEwan
Alberta icon Grant MacEwan draws from his broad knowledge as an agriculturalist and his vast life experience to tell us what every Canadian should know and love about water.
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Weasel Tail
Michael Ross
Michael Ross
Intercultural issues in Canada's new West are met with humour, wit, and at times, heartbreak, in this collection of Joe Crowshoe's stories.
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Where We Buried the Sun: One Woman's Gulag Story
Alla Tumanov
Alla Tumanov
The memoir of a young woman who, in 1951 at the age of seventeen, was arrested for her involvement with an underground organization demanding alternatives to Stalinist rule and as a result, spent five years in the Soviet prison system.
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Wild Daisies in the Sand: Life in a Canadian Internment Camp
Tom Sando
Tom Sando
In 1942 Tom Sando was imprisoned in Canadian concentration camps for standing up for his right as a Japanese Canadian. This is his journal, and it relates Sando’s internment experience of loneliness, fear, and, eventually, friendship and hope.
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With Unfailing Dedication: Rural Teachers in the War Years
Elizabeth McLachlan
Elizabeth McLachlan
The sequel to With Unshakeable Persistence. McLachlan takes us into the next decade, relating with vivid, sometimes shocking detail, the experiences of prairie teachers during and after the second world war.
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