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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History more books like this

by Stephen Jay Gould

Centres on a sensational discovery in the field of palaeontology - the existence in the Burgess Shale of 530-million-year-old-fossils, unique in age, preservation and diversity.

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The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed

The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed more books like this

by John Vaillant

The felling of a celebrated giant golden spruce tree in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands takes on a potent symbolism in this probing study of an unprecedented act of eco-vandalism. Vaillant profiles the culprit, an ex-logger turned messianic environmentalist who toppled the famous tree.

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I Heard the Owl Call My Name

I Heard the Owl Call My Name more books like this

by Margaret Craven

One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools. A young priest is sent to an isolated Indian village in British Columbia. His life is doomed, and so are the traditions of the tribe amongst whom he works.

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Field Guide to Western Birds

Field Guide to Western Birds more books like this

by Roger Tory Peterson

This classic guide includes all species found in North America west of the 100th meridian and north of Mexico. With 165 color paintings showing more than 1,000 birds from 700 species, with summer and winter ranges, breeding grounds and other data on easy-to-read maps.

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Lessons from a Sheep Dog

Lessons from a Sheep Dog more books like this

by W. Phillip Keller

Phillip Keller, author of the bestselling A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23, draws spiritual truth from his experience in training and using a sheep dog named Lass on his sheep ranch in the American West. The result is a moving modern parable.

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A Chill Rain in January

A Chill Rain in January more books like this

by Laurali R Wright

Set in a small Canadian community, this thriller tells of two women both on the run. One is fleeing from a hospital she hates and the other is fleeing from her hatred itself. Together they collide in a fatal incident.

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Everything on a Waffle

Everything on a Waffle more books like this

by Polly Horvath

Silent, imaginative 11-year-old Primrose is the only person who believes that her parents, who have been lost at sea, are still alive and will someday return home. In the meantime, she must live with her Uncle Jack, a free-spirited bachelor who sells real estate. As Primrose waits for her parents to resurface, she seeks comfort at a local ...

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Smoke and Shadows

Smoke and Shadows more books like this

by Tanya Huff

The acclaimed fantasy author returns with this first novel in a new trilogy, featuring a popular character from her acclaimed Blood series. Tony, a former street kid-turned-producer, is behind a new TV series about a vampire detective. But what is real and what is fantasy?

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The Birth House

The Birth House more books like this

by Ami McKay

Filled with details as compelling as they are surprising, this story of a Nova Scotia midwife is an unforgettable tale of the struggles women have faced to have control of their own bodies and to keep the best parts of tradition alive in the world of modern medicine.

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Concubine's Children

Concubine's Children more books like this

by Denise Chong

This is the true story, culled from letters, photographs, and memories, of the author's grandmother, brought to America from China as a young concubine by a traveler. It is also the story of the same man's abandoned wife and children, and of author Chong's discovery of those children 60 years later. One man's exploits resulted in a family living ...

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Stain Upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming more books like this

by Stephen Eaton Hume, Alexandra Morton, Betty C Keller

On the West Coast, few subjects are as controversial as salmon farming. Every week, new studies raise alarming questions about the safety of farmed fish and the risk farms pose to the environment. But federal, provincial and state governments continue to support expansion of fish farms all along the coast. People are justifiably confused. Just ...

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Nothing too good for a cowboy more books like this

by Richmond P Hobson, Jr.

A true adventure story of a man who built a four-million acre cattle empire in the remote ranges of the British Columbia Interior.

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Grass beyond the mountains: discovering the last great cattle frontier on the North American continent more books like this

by Richmond P Hobson, Jr.

Three cowhands with a dream of owning a cattle ranch make a heroic pioneer trek across uncharted montain ranges to open up the frontier grasslands in northern British Columbia during the early 1930s.

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Frommer's Vancouver & Victoria more books like this

by Donald Olson

You'll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. No other series offers ...

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Edible and Medicinal Plants of the West more books like this

by Gregory L Tilford, Michael Moore (Foreword by)

Full-color photographs face detailed descriptions of 250 plant species in the western United States and Canada, covering field identification, habitat and range, edibility, medicinal uses, and more.

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Three against the wilderness more books like this

by Eric Collier

Eric Collier's riveting recollections about the 26 years that he, his wife Lillian and son Veasy spent homesteading in the isolated Chilcotin wilderness made for an international best-seller and one of the most famous books ever written about British Columbia. In the early 1930s, Collier and his family moved to Meldrum Creek, where the couple ...

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Michelle Remembers more books like this

by Michelle Smith

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The Rancher Takes a Wife more books like this

by Richmond P Hobson, Jr.

Told with wit and wisdom, this is Hobson's tale of bringing his city-bred interior-decorator bride to the harsh life of the British Columbia Interior.

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Northwest Coast Indian Designs more books like this

by Madeleine Orban-Szontagh

Over 270 designs from art of Nootka, Kwakiutl, Tlingit, other groups. Stylized plants, abstracts, repeating patterns, totemic images, more.

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Fowl Prey more books like this

by Mary Daheim

Leaving the Hillside manor in capable hands, bed-and-breakfast hostess Judith McMonigle heads north to Vancouver's Hotel Clovia with her irrepressibly voracious cousin Renie for a pre-Thanksgiving getaway. But when an addled and impoverished popcorn vendor is murdered -- along with his foul-mouthed pet parakeet -- a local copper's suspicious gaze ...

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Strangers Among Us more books like this

by Laurali R Wright

A teenager kills his family and starts a chain reaction of violence in Vancouver that Karl Alberg and his team of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police must stop.

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The Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir of a Woman and Her Children Who Explored the Coastal Waters of the Pacific Northw more books like this

by Muriel Wylie Blanchet

The author writes about a boating trip she and her five children took in the late 1920s in the coastal waters of the Pacific Northwest.

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Eclipse of the Sun more books like this

by Michael O'Brien

In this fast-paced, reflective novel, (the second in a trilogy following Strangers and Sojourners) Michael O'Brien presents the dramatic tale of a family that finds itself in the path of a totalitarian government. Set in the near future, the story describes the rise of a police state in North America in which every level of society is infected ...

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A Field Guide to Western Trees: Western United States and Canada more books like this

by Roger Tory Peterson (Editor), George A Petrides, Olivia Petrides (Illustrator)

This newly designed edition of a popular Peterson Field Guide features detailed descriptions of 387 species, arranged in six major groups by visual similarity. The 47 color plates and five text drawings show distinctive details needed for identification. Color photographs and 295 color range maps accompany the species descriptions.

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Monkey Beach more books like this

by Eden Robinson

This first novel, a prize-winning critical success in Canada, takes place on an Indian reservation 500 miles north of Vancouver, where Lisa Hill is visited by ghosts and animal spirits as she searches for the brother she knows is dead. Eden Robinson, the author, is a Haisla Indian from British Columbia, and MONKEY BEACH is the first work of ...

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