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  • All Elevations Unknown

    An Adventure in the Heart of Borneo

    by Sam Lightner Jr. ...
    “In 1999, when mankind had successfully mapped the surface of the Moon, Venus, and Mars, there were still sections of Borneo that man had nothing to say about other than ‘all elevations unknown.’”In the spring of 1999, armed with little more than a description from a book and a map labeled “all elevations unknown,” Sam Lightner and his German rock-climbing buddy, Volker, found themselves deep in ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • Facing Up

    A Remarkable Journey to the Summit of Mount Everest

    by Bear Grylls ...
    No one could fail to be gripped by his heartfelt excitement and emotion over what was the adventure of a lifetime' – IndependentAt the age of 23, a young challenger named Bear Grylls set out to defy nature's mightiest peak, Mount Everest. With the relentless drive to conquer and a heart weighed down by a past marred by a life-threatening accident, Grylls overcame the obstacles to become one of the ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • The Wolverine Way

    by Douglas H. Chadwick ...
    Glutton, demon of destruction, symbol of slaughter, mightiest of wilderness villains… The wolverine comes marked with a reputation based on myth and fancy. Yet this enigmatic animal is more complex than the legends that surround it. With a shrinking wilderness and global warming, the future of the wolverine is uncertain. The Wolverine Way reveals the natural history of this species and the forces ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

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  • Mountains Of The Mind

    A History Of A Fascination

    by Robert MacFarlane ...
    Why do so many feel compelled to risk their lives climbing mountains? During the climbing season, one person a day dies in the Alps, and more people die climbing in this season in Scotland than they do on the roads. Mountains of the Mind is a fascinating investigation into our emotional and imaginative responses to mountains and how these have changed over the last few centuries. It is rich with ... Read more

    $17.69 CAD

  • Nature Noir

    A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra

    by Jordan Fisher Smith ...
    "A nature book unlike any other…peppered with gritty, anti-romantic, all-too-real tales of cops 'n' bad guys in the great outdoors."— The San Diego Union-TribuneJordan Fisher Smith's startling account of fourteen years as a park ranger thoroughly dispels our idealized visions of life in the great outdoors. Instead of scout troops and placid birdwatchers, Smith's beat—a stretch of land that has ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Badluck Way

    A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West

    by Bryce Andrews ...
    “Much more than a coming-of-age story, Badluck Way is an important meditation on what it means to share space and breathe the same air as truly wild animals, and the necessary damage that can occur when boundaries are crossed” (Tom Groneberg, author of The Secret Life of Cowboys).In this gripping memoir of a young man, a wolf, their parallel lives and ultimate collision, Bryce Andrews describes ... Read more

    $19.50 CAD

  • The Longest Trail

    A True Life Novel

    by Roni McFadden ...
    "The Longest Trail carries readers through a spellbinding new work by Willits, CA author Roni McFadden. As a young teen, McFadden left behind the confusion and pain of her unhappy preteen years. She tells of how she went up ~ up onto horses, up the road to a man who could help her, and up the mountain, to where she could see clearly and breathe deeply. And, finally, up to another place where only ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Base Camp

    40 Days on Everest

    by Dianne Whelan ...
    It takes forty days to know the mountain.Each spring, over eight hundred climbers attempt to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. The conditions are challenging, and without warning can become life-threatening. Some make it to the top of what is considered the world’s most majestic mountain, but others are not so lucky, and in the attempt to reach the elusive summit, many more have tragically lost ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Ecology & Wonder in the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site

    by Robert W. Sandford ...
    Ecology & Wonder makes several remarkable claims: The greatest cultural achievement in the Western Canadian mountain region may be what has been preserved, not what has been developed. Protecting the spine of the Rocky Mountains will preserve crucial ecological functions. Because the process of ecosystem diminishment and species loss has been slowed, an ecological thermostat has been kept alive. ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • A Symphony of Seasonal Colours

    Symphonie multicolore au fil des saisons

    by Bernard SCHOUWEY ...
    Mountains fauna, flora and landscape pictures. (English and French)Images de montagnes, de sa faune et de sa flore. (Français et anglais) ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Coal Ain't The Culprit

    by Peter Britton ...
    Burning coal to make energy to run machines has been the world's ugly secret for centuries. The truth is now known: Coal combustion is killing the planet. The scary thing is we all know that but nothing changes; more and more CO2 each year joins the greenhouse gas gang to raise Earth's temperature slowly but inexorably. We even go so far as to call coal "clean" creating the world's biggest ... Read more

    $10.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seton Gordon's Cairngorms

    Edited by Hamish M. Brown ...
    Seton Gordon really created himself as naturalist, photographer and writer, the first such in the country, his first book appearing when he was eighteen. In all he wrote 27 books, two specifically about the Cairngorms where he grew up and first explored and returned to many times throughout his long life. He wrote with a revelational wonder and freshness, writing in poetic prose descriptions only ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD