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  • The Immeasurable World

    Journeys in Desert Places

    by William Atkins ...
    In the classic literary tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Geoff Dyer, and for readers of Ryszard Kapuscinski and Rory Stewart, a rich and exquisitely written account of travels in eight deserts on five continents that evokes the timeless allure of these remote and forbidding places and their inhabitants.One-third of the earth's land surface is classified as desert. Restless, unhappy in love, and ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Moor

    Lives Landscape Literature

    by William Atkins ...
    In this deeply personal journey across our nation's most forbidding and most mysterious terrain, William Atkins takes the reader from south to north, in search of the heart of this elusive landscape. His account is both travelogue and natural history, and an exploration of moorland's uniquely captivating position in our literature, history and psyche.Atkins may be a solitary wanderer across these ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Granta 157: Should We Have Stayed at Home?

    New Travel Writing

    Edited by William Atkins ...
    Series series The Magazine of New Writing
    From Antarctica and the deserts of the US-Mexico border, to a Siberian whale-killing station and the alleyways of Taipei, these dispatches describe a world in perpetual motion (even when it is 'locked-down'). To travel, we are reminded, is to embrace the experience of being a stranger - to acknowledge that one person''s frontier is another's home.Granta 157 is guest-edited by award-winning travel ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Empowering Women to Walk in God's Glory

    A Practical Guide for Real Life Situations

    by Kimberly Williams Atkins ...
    Empowering Women to Walk in Gods Glory speaks to all sisters of every race, socioeconomic background, and nation.Canvassing the traumas and fears of her childhood retelling a terrifying encounter involving her mother and the chilling feeling prior to Hurricane Katrina, Kimberly Williams Atkins has carved a priceless guidebook that can be used daily to anchor our faith and solidify our walk with ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Southeast Asia's New Media

    by William Atkins ...
    The past decade has seen a major structural shift in broadcasting in Southeast Asia, with the development of digital satellite and cable broadcasting. This shift has impacted upon some of the most information-sensitive governments in the world: Singapore, Malaysia and, until recently, Indonesia. Atkins traces this development in five countries, showing that the challenge to authoritarian regimes, ... Read more

    $193.75 CAD

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    The Immeasurable World

    Journeys in Desert Places

    by William Atkins ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Cowley ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 30 min

    **Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year (UK)"William Atkins is an erudite writer with a wonderful wit and gaze and this is a new and exciting beast of a travel book."—Joy WilliamsIn the classic literary tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Geoff Dyer, a rich and exquisitely written account of travels in eight deserts on five continents that evokes the timeless allure of these remote and ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Underland

    A Deep Time Journey

    by Robert Macfarlane ...
    Narrated by Matthew Waterson ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 3 min

    Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.In this highly anticipated sequel to The Old Ways, ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • To the River

    A Journey Beneath the Surface

    by Olivia Laing ...
    Series Book 71 - Canons
    An author's walk "from source to sea along the Ouse in Sussex is a meandering, meditative delight" drawing on history, literature, and the river itself ( The Guardian, UK).In To The River, author Olivia Laing embarks on a weeklong, midsummer odyssey along the banks of the River Ouse in Sussex, England, from its source near Haywards Heath to the sea, where it empties into the Channel at Newhaven. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Unruly Places

    Lost Spaces Secret Cities And Other Inscrutable Geographies

    by Alastair Bonnett ...
    Alastair Bonnett’s tour of the world’s most unlikely micro-nations, moving villages, secret cities, and no man’s lands shows us the modern world from surprising new vantage points, and is bound to inspire urban explorers, off-the-beaten-trail wanderers, and armchair travellers. He connects what we see on maps to what’s happening in the world by looking at the places that are hardest to pin down: ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Singapore

    Smart City, Smart State

    by Kent E. Calder ...
    How Singapore’s solutions to common problems can provide examples for other societies.Nearly everyone knows that Singapore has one of the most efficient governments and competitive, advanced economies in the world. But can this unique citystate of some 5.5 million residents also serve as a model for other advanced economies as well as for the emerging world? Respected East Asia expert Kent Calder ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Land

    by Derek Hall ...
    Series series Resources
    Land is one of the world's most emotionally resonant resources, and control over it is fundamental to almost all human activity. From the local level to the global, we are often in conflict over the ground beneath our feet. But because human relationships to land are so complex, it can be difficult to think them through in a unified way. This path-breaking book aims to change that by combining ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • You Are Here

    Around the World in 92 Minutes

    by Chris Hadfield ...
    In You Are Here, astronaut Chris Hadfield creates a surprisingly intimate and compelling visual essay about the planet we live on, choosing the best from the thousands of photos he took on the International Space Station.Chris Hadfield's new book shows us our home—our city, country, continent, our whole planet—from a unique perspective. The millions of us who followed Chris's Twitter feed from the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD