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  • Enos Mills' Colorado

    by James H. Pickering ...
    For the first quarter of the twentieth century the names Enos Mills and Estes Park were virtually synonymous. Mills’ base of operations was his rustic mountain inn at the foot of Longs Peak, where he wrote some sixteen books and scores of magazine and newspaper articles familiarizing the nation with the scenic wonders and animal life of the Rocky Mountain West. Rocky Mountain National Park owes ... Read more

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  • The Spy

    A Tale of the Neutral Ground

    by James Fenimore Cooper, James P. Elliott, James H. Pickering, Lance Schachterle, Jeffrey Walker ...
    Series series The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper
    An exciting Revolutionary War tale of double agents and counterespionage in New York State in 1780.A year after his imitative first novel Precaution (1820) enjoyed only modest success, James Fenimore Cooper penned The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground, a Revolutionary War narrative initiating the American historical romance, a novel and a genre that quickly put to rest the British critic Sydney ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

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  • Reluctant Pioneer

    How I Survived Five Years in the Canadian Bush

    by Thomas Osborne ...
    The view 16-year-old Thomas Osborne first had of Muskoka was at night, trudging alone with his even younger brother along unmarked primitive roads to find their luckless father who, in 1875, had decided to make a new start for his beleaguered family on some "free land" in the bush east of the pioneer village of Huntsville, Ontario. The miracle is that Thomas lived to tell the tale.For the next ... Read more

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  • A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

    Enriched edition.

    by Isabella Bird, Derek Walters ...
    In 'A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains' by Isabella Bird, readers are taken on a literary journey through the remote and rugged landscapes of the Rocky Mountains in the late 19th century. Bird's account is presented in a vivid and descriptive style, highlighting the beauty and challenges of her solo travels through the untamed wilderness. This firsthand narrative provides valuable insights into ... Read more

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  • The Long Labrador Trail

    by Dillon Wallace ...
    In the summer of 1903 when Leonidas Hubbard, Jr., went to Labrador to explore a section of the unknown interior it was my privilege to accompany him as his companion and friend. The world has heard of the disastrous ending of our little expedition, and how Hubbard, fighting bravely and heroically to the last, finally succumbed to starvation. Before his death I gave him my promise that should I ... Read more

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  • Trapping the Boundary Waters

    A Tenderfoot in the Border Country, 1919-1920

    by Charles Ira Cook, Jr. ...
    Series series Midwest Reflections
    On May 4, 1919, Charlie Cook set off for a year of adventure in the Minnesota-Ontario Boundary Waters. Soon abandoned by his comfort-loving companion, the restless World War I veteran spent an enlightening year learning—often the hard way—how to paddle and sail on windy lakes, hunt and fish for food, bake "rough delicacies" in a reflector oven, and build winter-proof shelters. His how-to ... Read more

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  • The Canadian Rockies

    New and Old Trails

    by Arthur Philemon Coleman ...
    Series Book 1 - Mountain Classics Collection
    Arthur Philemon Coleman was a passionate Canadian and one of the first to truly discover the beauty and majesty of this country''s mountain ranges as an explorer, geologist and mountaineer. In 1884, before the railway traversed the Rocky and Columbia mountains, Coleman headed west on the first of what would be eight mountaineering expeditions, making his way on foot and pack horse, with Native ... Read more

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  • The Arctic Prairies

    by Ernest Thompson Seton ...
    The great nature writer, Ernest Thompson Seton produced another classic with this work which details the author adventures in northern Canada while on a n expedition to study the wild caribou. In the author's words;"In 1907 I set out to journey by canoe down the Athabaska and adjoining waters to the sole remaining forest wilds--the far north-west of Canada--and the yet more desert Arctic Plains, ... Read more

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  • Canoeing in the wilderness

    by Henry David Thoreau ...
    The present book 'Canoeing in the wilderness' was written by famous American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian - Henry David Thoreau. It was actually a compilation of his essays which he wrote on his trip to canoe wilderness at the age of forty years. It was first published in the year 1906. ... Read more

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  • Hunting Trips of a Ranchman and The Wilderness Hunter

    by Theodore Roosevelt ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Written during his days as a ranchman in the Dakota Bad Lands, these two wilderness tales by Theodore Roosevelt endure today as part of the classic folklore of the West. The narratives provide vivid portraits of the land as well as the people and animals that inhabited it, ever underscoring the author's abiding concerns as a naturalist.Originally published in 1885, Hundting Trips of a Ranchman ... Read more

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  • Those Earlier Hills

    Reminiscences 1928-1961

    by R. M. Patterson ...
    Few men have been as set on isolated adventures and as passionate about the wild landscape of Canada as R.M. Patterson. He spent over 30 years in exploration, from northern rivers such as the Nahanni and the Liard, to the foothills of the Rockies, and he recorded his discoveries in vivid words and breathtaking photographs along the way. His memorable articles are presented as a collection by ... Read more

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  • In Beaver World (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Classic Nature Study of Beaver Behavior, Dams, Colony Life, and Wildlife Conservation

    by Enos A. Mills, Tessa Dunleigh ...
    In Beaver World is a lucid, affectionate work of natural history that studies the beaver as engineer, citizen, and ecological force. Combining field observation, narrative episode, and reflective prose, Mills describes dams, canals, lodges, food-gathering, family life, and the animal's astonishing capacity to reshape landscapes. Written in the tradition of early twentieth-century American nature ... Read more

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