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  • Running the River

    Secrets of the Sabine

    by Wes Ferguson, Jacob Croft Botter ...
    Series series River Books, Sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University
    Growing up near the Sabine, journalist Wes Ferguson, like most East Texans, steered clear of its murky, debris-filled waters, where alligators lived in the backwater sloughs and an occasional body was pulled from some out-of-the-way crossing. The Sabine held a reputation as a haunt for a handful of hunters and loggers, more than a few water moccasins, swarms of mosquitoes, and the occasional black ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Blanco River

    by Wes Ferguson, Jacob Croft Botter ...
    Series series Pam and Will Harte Books on Rivers, sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University
    For eighty-seven miles, the swift and shallow Blanco River winds through the Texas Hill Country. Its water is clear and green, darkened by frequent pools. Wes Ferguson and Jacob Botter have paddled, walked, and waded the Blanco. They have explored its history, people, wildlife, and the natural beauty that surprises everyone who experiences this river.Described as “the defining element in some of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Adventure, Resilience, and Renewal in the Arctic Wild

    by Jennifer Kingsley ...
    In an adventure of a lifetime, Jennifer Kingsley and her five companions canoe through one of the planet’s most rugged settings. They battle raging winds, impenetrable sea ice, treacherous rapids, and agonizing sores and blisters while contending with rising tensions among the group. But they also experience the lasting joy of grizzly sightings, icy swims, and the caribou’s summer migration. Woven ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

    by Henry David Thoreau ...
    The book is part memoir, part travelogue, and part philosophical reflection. Thoreau describes his experiences during the journey, including his encounters with people and his observations of nature. He also includes philosophical reflections on topics such as friendship, solitude, and the relationship between man and nature.Thoreau's writing style in "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Thelon

    A River Sanctuary

    by David F. Pelly ...
    David Pelly tells the Thelon's story, exploring the mystery of Man's relationship with this special place in the heart of Canada's vast Arctic barrenlands. From Thanadelthur and Telaruk to J.W. Tyrrell, John Hornby and Eric Morse, the history is detailed, complete and exciting. The Thelon is the setting for a compelling Canadian adventure tale -- with all its drama, intrigue, joy and tragedy. But ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Listening to the Savage

    River Notes and Half-Heard Melodies

    by Barbara Hurd ...
    Barbara Hurd’s Listening to the Savage weaves rich explorations of science, history, mythology, literature, and music. The listening of the book delineates and champions a kind of attentiveness to what is not easily heard and is written in language that is as precise as it is poetic, providing original ways of engagement in the natural world.As in Hurd’s other books, the previously unknown or the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Chippewa

    Biography of a Wisconsin Waterway

    by Richard D. Cornell ...
    Inspired by August Derleth’s seminal book The Wisconsin, Richard D. Cornell traveled the Chippewa River from its two sources south of Ashland to where it joins the Mississippi. Over several decades he returned time and again in his red canoe to immerse himself in the stories of the Chippewa River and document its valley, from the Ojibwe and early fur traders and lumbermen to the varied and hopeful ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Contemplative Paddler's Fireside Companion

    by Timothy McDonnell ...
    Here is a fine companion for any paddler, wanderer, or dreamer with a love for the wild. What you have here is not one more how-to manual for paddlers. These pages comprise a why-do volume exploring the spiritual core of paddle trip experience. Tim McDonnell writes with clarity, spirit, and self-effacing good humor, taking you along on several amazing wilderness journeys. Here you will share ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Water Ways

    A thousand miles along Britain's canals

    by Jasper Winn ...
    For a hundred and fifty years, between the plod of packhorse trains and the arrival of the railways, canals were the high-tech water machine driving the industrial revolution. Amazing feats of engineering, they carried the rural into the city and the urban into the countryside, and changed the lives of everyone. And then, just when their purpose was extinguished by modern transport, they were ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Paddling Minnesota

    by Joseph Van Nurden ...
    In this beautiful collection of essays on paddling and growing up in the Northwoods of Minnesota, Joseph Van Nurden regales readers with tales of misty mornings on the lake, paddling alongside moose, introducing his son to the wonders of canoeing, and his own childhood at a northern resort. Full of insights on why we seek the outdoors, Paddling Minnesota is sure to delight paddlers of all skill ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What the River Carries

    Encounters with the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte

    by Lisa Knopp ...
    In this informed and lyrical collection of interwoven essays, Lisa Knopp explores the physical and cultural geography of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte, rivers she has come to understand and cherish. At the same time, she contemplates how people experience landscape, identifying three primary roles of environmental perception: the insider, the outsider, and the outsider seeking to become an ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

  • Trails and Tribulations

    Confessions of a Wilderness Pathfinder

    by Hap Wilson ...
    In an age when "survival" shows permeate the media, noted northern traveller Hap Wilson shares accounts of his lifelong involvement with wilderness living within the Canadian Shield. Wilson knows better than most how to live in the woods. As park ranger, canoe guide, outfitter, trail builder, and environmental activist, he learned from firsthand experience that nature can neither be beaten or ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD