The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
By: John Vaillant
4.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest…
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1. Alone Against the North: An Expedition into the Unknown
By: Adam Shoalts
3.93
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Canada's real-life Indiana Jones reminds us that the age of exploration is not over When Adam Sh… read more
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- canada
- nonfiction
- nature
2. On Trails: An Exploration
By: Robert Moor
3.96
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In 2009, while thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, Robert Moor began to wonder about the paths that … read more
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- nature
- history
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"In walking, we acquire more of less."-Robert Moor, On Trails: An Exploration
"We move through this world on paths laid down long before we are born."-Robert Moor, On Trails: An Exploration
"Complete freedom is not what a trail offers. Quite the opposite; a trail is a tactful reduction of options."-Robert Moor, On Trails: An Exploration
"What unites the wisest trails, I have found, is a balance of three values: durability, efficiency, and flexibility."-Robert Moor, On Trails: An Exploration
3. Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
By: Farley Mowat
4.21
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
More than a half-century ago the naturalist Farley Mowat was sent to investigate why wolves were ki… read more
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- canada
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a …"-Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
"Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualiti…"-Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
4. A History of Canada in Ten Maps: Epic Stories of Charting a Mysterious Land
By: Adam Shoalts
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The sweeping, epic story of the mysterious land that came to be called "Canada" like it's never bee… read more
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- history
- canada
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
5. The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
By: John Vaillant
4.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest… read more
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- history
- true crime
- canada
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
6. The Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir of a Woman and Her Children Who Explored the Coastal Waters of the Pacific Northwest
By: M. Wylie Blanchet
3.41
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
This is the fascinating true adventure story of a woman who packed her five children onto a twenty-… read more
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- canada
- nonfiction
- nature
7. Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound
By: Grant Lawrence
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
From Captain George Vancouver to Muriel "Curve of Time" Blanchet to Jim "Spilsbury's Coast" Spilsbu… read more
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8. The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
By: Richard Preston
3.78
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 bestselling author of The Hot Zone comes an amazing account of scientific and spiritual… read more
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9. The Good Rain: Across Time & Terrain in the Pacific Northwest
By: Timothy Egan
3.22
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Timothy Egan describes his journeys in the Pacific Northwest through visits to salmon fisheries, re… read more
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10. Eating Dirt
By: Charlotte Gill
3.96
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the BC National Award for Non-Fiction, and short-listed for both the Charles Taylor Prize… read more
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11. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
By: Ben Goldfarb
4.45
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more
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- nature
- history
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
12. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
By: Suzanne Simard
4.22
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their conne… read more
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- nature
- canada
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"Plants are attuned to one another's strengths and weaknesses, elegantly giving and taking to attain exquisite balance. There is grace in complexity, in actions cohering, in sum totals."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"Such a marvel, the tenacity of the buds to surge with life every spring, to greet the lengthening days and warming weather with exuberance, no matter what hardships were brought by winter."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"This Mother Tree was the central hub that the saplings and seedlings nested around, with threads of different fungal species, of different colors and weights, linking them, layer upon layer, in a str…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"I was lucky to become one of the first in the new generation of women in the logging industry, but what I found was not what I had grown up to understand. Instead I discovered vast landscapes cleared…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
13. Greenwood
By: Michael Christie
4.33
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting u… read more
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- canada
- environment
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"There is nothing more quieting than an ancient tree"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
"Do you know what becomes of men like us without the armour of wealth...?"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
"Maybe trees do have souls. Which makes wood a kind of flesh. And perhaps instruments of wooden construction sound so pleasing to our ears for this reason: the choral shimmer of a guitar; the heartbea…"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
"Still, Temple has no illusions concerning her library's impact. Her books won't lift anyone from their low station. They won't right wrongs or save wandering souls from perdition or fill grumbling st…"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
14. Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic
By: Adam Shoalts
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
National bestseller A thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from "Canada's greate… read more
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- canada
- nonfiction
- nature
15. Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past
By: Brett Popplewell
4.31
Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition
Into the Wild meets Born to Run meets The Stranger in the Woods in a fascinating true story of… read more
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- canada
- nonfiction
- nature
16. The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend
By: Adam Shoalts
3.81
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Spellbinding adventure from Canada's most beloved modern-day explorer. Traver… read more
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- canada
- history
- nature
17. Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic
By: Adam Shoalts
4.32
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
From Canada’s most accomplished adventurer and storyteller comes a gripping journey into the vastne… read more
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- canada
- history
- nature
18. Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest
By: Trina Moyles
4.29
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A page-turning memoir about a young woman's grueling, revelatory summers working alone in a remote … read more
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- canada
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
19. Not on My Watch: How a renegade whale biologist took on governments and industry to save wild salmon
By: Alexandra Morton
4.55
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada" because of her p… read more
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- nature
- canada
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
20. Big Lonely Doug: The Story of One of Canada’s Last Great Trees
By: Harley Rustad
4.16
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
In the tradition of John Vaillant’s modern classic The Golden Spruce comes a story of the unlikely … read more
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- canada
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
21. Always pack a candle: a nurse in the Cariboo-Chilcotin
By: Marion McKinnon Crook
4.13
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
In 1962, newly minted public health nurse Marion McKinnon arrived in the small community of William… read more
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