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Any Other Woman: An uncommon biography
Monica Kidd
Monica Kidd
Monica Kidd, biologist, poet and award-winning journalist, travels to Slovakia and Alberta to unravel the mystery of her great-grandparents' lives.>>
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Apocrypha
Stan Dragland & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
Stan Dragland & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
Shaped over two decades, this collection is a passionate meditation on the meeting of life and literature, and a text of rumination, invention, and rhapsody.
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Big Rig: Comic Tales from a Long Haul Trucker
Don McTavish
Don McTavish
Big Rig takes us on some eye-opening, highly comical road trips, through the eyes of a driver and his fellow truckers over a forty year period.
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Doomed Bridegroom (The)
Myrna Kostash
Myrna Kostash
The Doomed Bridegroom narrates one woman’s attraction to rebel heroes, both real and imagined, in Canada, Eastern Europe, and the Mediterranean.
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Knocking on the Moonlit Door: Reflections on Journeys to Europe
Margaret Thompson
Margaret Thompson
A collection of beautifully written personal essays that explore travel both to distant places and within the mind.
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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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Listening to Trees
A.K. Hellum
A.K. Hellum
Combining personal experience with fact, 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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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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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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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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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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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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Vancouver Walking
Meredith Quartermain
Meredith Quartermain
Journey along Vancouver’s colourful city streets, past its landmarks, through the sounds and smells of Chinatown. Ramble along the seawall on English Bay, ride the curving streets to Kitsilano on a winter afternoon...
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Working North: From DEW Line to Drill Ship
Rick Ranson
Rick Ranson
This is the story of Rick Ranson who worked on the DEW Line and drill ships in the Arctic. The characters, landscapes, and perils of the North combine with its beauty and mystery in this remarkable narrative.
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