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Browse by Category Environment & Ecology
Back Roads
Ted Ferguson
Ted Ferguson
After collapsing from stress in a posh Vancouver restaurant, Ted Ferguson decides to abandon his workaholic lifestyle and move his family to the secluded back roads of northern Alberta, where electricity and indoor plumbing are a luxury.
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Butterflies in Bucaramanga
Tanna Patterson-Z
Tanna Patterson-Z
This fictionalized account of the 1998 kidnapping of a mining executive by Colombian renegades guides readers deep into the physical and political terrain of a beautiful but dangerous country.
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Cardinal Divide (The)
Stephen Legault
Stephen Legault
Cole Blackwater, environmental strategist and damaged human being, must prove an environmental fanatic innocent of murder to save Canada's magnificent Cardinal Divide from destruction.
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Earth Alive: Essays on Ecology
Stan Rowe
Stan Rowe
A collection of thought-provoking essays, short pieces, and reviews that explore and uncover the intimate connections between humans and the Earth.
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Elk in the House (An)
Beverly Lein
Beverly Lein
When Beverly and Carson Lein, ranchers at the Seventh Avenue Elk ranch in Manning, chose the unique occupation of farming elk, they didn’t count on adopting and inevitably falling in love with one.
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Hammerstone: A Biography of Hornby Island
Olivia Fletcher
Olivia Fletcher
Successful in its first edition, this is the long-awaited revised version of this popular tribute to Hornby Island. The creation of the island is revealed in beautiful prose and description.
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Home Place: Essays on Ecology
Stan Rowe
Stan Rowe
This is a new edition of Stan Rowe’s popular collection of essays that focus on the idea that the Earth is our "Home Place." The new edition contains an introduction by Wes Jackson of the Land Institute in Salina, Kansas."
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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 fact, Listening to Trees tells the story of a man’s lifelong journey to salvage today’s declining forests.
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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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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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The Darkening Archipelago
Stephen Legault
Stephen Legault
The Cole Blackwater environmental mystery series continues with a race to keep both human souls and natural ecosystems from falling into darkness.
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Undercurrent: An Environmental Mystery
Anne Metikosh
Anne Metikosh
Conservation Officer Charlie Meikle takes a job in the wilderness of Northern Ontario to escape her past. But, her quiet life is forever altered when she finds the body of a friend face down in the lake.
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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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