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APATHETIC & THE DEFIANT
: Case Studies of Canadian Mutiny & Disobedience, 1812-1919
[Craig Leslie Mantle (ed)]
Canadian soldiers have served their country for centuries, and for the most part they have done so honourably and loyally. Yet, on certain occasions, their conduct has been anything but honourable. Whether by disobeying their legal orders, terrorising the local population, or committing crimes in general, some soldiers have embodied the very antithesis of appropriate military conduct. Covering examples of unsavoury behaviour in the representatives of our military forces from the War of 1812 to the immediate aftermath of the First World War, "The Apathetic and the Defiant" reveals that disobedience and mutiny have marked all of the major conflicts in which Canada has participated. Canadian military indiscipline has long been overshadowed by the nation’s victories and triumphs ... until now.
{
376pp,
155x230mm,
February 2008;
PB,
£20.00,
1550027107:9781550027105
, Dundurn Press
} |
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CANADA'S FIFTY YEARS IN SPACE
: The COSPAR Anniversary
[Gordon Shepherd & Agnes Kruchio]
International space science began suddenly with the creation of COSPAR (Committee on Space Research) in October, 1958, and its first plenary meeting was held in London, in November the same year. Canada was at the table for both the creation and the first plenary meeting. This book describes the parallel growth of the Canadian space science program from that date up to the 50th Anniversary of COSPAR, to be celebrated in Montreal in July 2008. This work relates the history of ground-based activity that placed Canada at the forefront of nations with knowledge of space in 1958, gained primarily through observations of the aurora borealis by optical and radar methods. By the time of the International Geophysical Year, 1957-58, Canada was well established in this research and had built its own rocket payloads. During the sixties this activity increased tenfold with the inception of the Alouette/ISIS satellite missions in 1962, and a vigorous rocket program conducted at Fort Churchill and elsewhere. After the last Defence Research Board satellite, ISIS-11, was launched in 1971 the program changed direction; the National Research Council maintained the rocket program at a lower level and space opened up for Canadian instruments on international spacecraft leading to some highly successful missions. Long overdue, the Canadian Space Agency was established in 1989 and is now leading a more mature program including Canada's first scientific mission since ISIS-11 (SCISAT-1), the Earth-observing Radarsat-1 and a strong astronaut program. The final achievement of the fifty years is a Canadian-built lidar that is part of the NASA Phoenix mission and is on its way to Mars, destined to land there in May 2008.
{
280pp,
180x255mm,
April 2008;
PB,
£14.95,
1894959728:9781894959728
, Apogee Books
} |
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CAPTURING THE FRENCH RIVER
: Images Along One of Canada's Most Famous Waterways, 1910-1927
[Wayne Kelly]
Capturing the French River introduces a rare collection of exceptional photographs taken along the river between 1910 and 1927 by Doctors J. Ernest Rushbrook and Frank Sherman, whose lifelong friendship was based in part around their mutual love of photography, of nature, of the Canadian wilderness and of the canoe. The collection was a serendipitous discovery by author Wayne Kelly, who immediately recognized the uniqueness of these incredible images. The two Rushbrook sisters, Ida and Bertha, also photographers, play a significant role in this book on the amazing, historically significant French River and the once-thriving original village of French River, which ceased to exist circa 1924. The sisters are remembered as well for their fearless running of whitewater rapids and remote camping adventures, often including Bertha's son, Max, who was still a babe in arms. The author's historical research on this area and the era has led to an informative text that will delight history buffs and also serve as the ideal companion for those interested canoeists and travellers venturing into French River country. Present-day photographers will also be intrigued by the many images selected from a collection of 634 photographs. Capturing the French River is destined to become a Canadian treasure in print.
{
128pp,
175x245mm,
May 2007;
PB,
£14.99,
1897045239:9781897045237
, Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books)
} |
 |
INSUBORDINATE & THE NONCOMPLIANT
: Case Studies of Canadian Mutiny & Disobedience, 1920 to Present
[Howard G Coombs (ed)]
Military leadership has both formal and informal dimensions. The formal leadership of any organisation must always ensure that it minimises the divergence between institutional aims and the actions of informal leaders. When this separation occurs, the result can be mutiny. These incidents of insubordination and non-compliance represent a form of dialogue between military personnel and their leadership. This book offers a perspective on the Canadian experience with military mutiny in the 20th century in an effort to provide relevant lessons for today.
{
472pp,
150x230mm,
February 2008;
PB,
£28.99,
1550027646:9781550027648
, Dundurn Press
} |
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JACK WHYTE
: Forty Years in Canada: A Memoir
[Jack Whyte]
Jack Whyte is known world-wide for his books about Arthurian England. But before he was the Jack Whyte, he was a high-school English teacher and a professional singer, musician, actor and entertainer. Then a job writing for CBC national television steered him into an advertising career. Along the way, his "fervent preoccupation with the Arthurian legend" led him to write the series "A Dream of Eagles" / "The Camulod Chronicles". But there's more to Jack Whyte than work. He arrived in Canada in 1967 at the height of this nation's centennial celebrations. And what he found in Canada made him stay. The effervescent optimism about the coming 100 years in the richest and most gifted country in the western world. The textures and vibrancy of Canada: crunchy lettuce and tomatoes, 10-cent coffee, brilliant Prairie sunshine and the smells of summer; jackfish running in Calling Lake and moose carcasses hanging in the butcher's shop; snow and cold continental winter with Hockey Night in Canada and Don Messer's Jubilee. This is a memoir that includes Whyte's narrative verse and reminiscences to mark the 40th anniversary of his arrival in Canada. His experiences in 1967 are only part of a journey that includes ruminations about Canada's "two solitudes", Pierre Trudeau, heroes and feet of clay, Alberta oil, multiculturalism, fast food, the military, health care and more.
{
180pp,
160x210mm,
November 2007;
HB,
£19.99,
1894974220:9781894974226
, Heritage House Publishing
} |
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KICKSTART
: How Successful Canadians Got Started
[Alexander Herman, Paul Matthews & Andrew Feindel]
In 2005, recent graduates Alex Herman, Paul Matthews, and Andrew Feindel realised they weren't entirely sure where they were going in life. Then they had an idea. Over the next two years, they interviewed 70 well-known Canadians and asked them how they got started. The answers they found were not always what they expected. "Kickstart" profiles over 30 prominent Canadians, including professional athletes (former CFL star Norman Kwong), TV personalities (Valerie Pringle), Native leaders (Matthew Coon Come), and former prime ministers (Brian Mulroney). Their collective wisdom, offered in their own words, just might help readers "kickstart" their own lives and careers.
{
240pp,
155x230mm,
February 2008;
PB,
£14.00,
1550027832:9781550027839
, Dundurn Press
} |
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MAN OF MANY TALENTS
: The Life of Jan Rubes
[Ezra Schabas]
Jan Rubes has been a leading performer and director on film, stage, radio and TV and has a varied interest. He emigrated to Canada from Czechoslovakia in 1949 and was soon a leading bass in the Canadian Opera Company. He has performed throughout Canada and the US in countless solo recitals and appearances with symphony orchestras. With his wife, he developed Young People's Theatre in Toronto. A member of the Order of Canada, he holds two doctorates and has been both a national tennis champion as well as an important part of the history of performing arts in Canada. Clearly a man of many talents.
{
304pp,
150x230mm,
January 2008;
HB,
£20.00,
1550026852:9781550026856
, Dundurn Press
} |
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MOUNT ASSINIBOINE
: Images in Art
[Jany Lytton Gooch]
Highlights a century of landscape art inspired by the Mount Assiniboine area of the Canadian Rockies from 1899 to 2006. The book includes a preface by Robert Sandford and an introduction discussing the history of exploration of the region, early ascents of Mount Assiniboine, the development of tourism, and the significant art this majestic peak has inspired. Illustrations in the introduction include four black-and-white archival photos, along with five colour reproductions of Mary Vaux Walcott's stunning watercolours of wildflowers sketched in the area. The main text presents 42 colour plates illustrating a wide variety of styles and media from 23 artists including A P Coleman, Carl Rungius, James Simpson, Belmore Browne, Barbara and A C Leighton, Catharine and Peter Whyte, W J Phillips and A Y Jackson. Of these, only seven have been previously published. The colour plates are organised into three sections: approaching Assiniboine from the northwest; east of Assiniboine; and Mount Assiniboine itself. Each section is introduced with a black-and-white archival photograph and a quotation. The book concludes with a list of artists, endnotes, a full bibliography and an index.
{
152pp,
205x205mm,
November 2007;
PB,
£18.99,
1894765974:9781894765978
, Heritage House Publishing (Rocky Mountain Books)
} |
 |
NORTHERN HOIZONS OF GUY BLANCHET
: Intrepid Surveyor 1884-1966
[Gwyneth Hoyle]
This is the working life of the distinguished surveyor, Guy Blanchet in Northern Canada in the early 20th century. His life was rich in contacts with First nation people and he was a well-known traveller who did not seek adventure, but it certainly found him. He had many narrow escapes and published articles about his experiences.
{
240pp,
150x230mm,
November 2007;
PB,
£13.99,
155002759X:9781550027594
, Dundurn Press
} |
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OUTRIDER OF EMPIRE
: The Life & Adventures of Roger Pocock
[Geoffrey A Pocock]
A dreamer of dreams, an adventurer, and a man of many ideas, Roger Pocock was an inveterate, world-ranging traveller who lived the life that all adventurous boys desire. He listened with wonder to the stories of all those he met, be they outlaws like Butch Cassidy, ranchers, or mounted police. Readers of all ages and classes eagerly devoured Pocock's western tales. Outrider of Empire is a testament to a prolific author and extraordinary man whose friends and acquaintances bridged the worlds of theatre, literature, the military, and science.
{
480pp,
155x230mm,
March 2008;
PB,
£20.99,
0888644485:9780888644480
, University of Alberta Press
} |
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REFUGEE
: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada
[Benjamin Drew & George E Clarke]
In the early 1850s, white American abolitionist Benjamin Drew was commissioned to travel to Canada West (now Ontario) to interview escaped slaves from the United States. At the time the population of Canada West was just short of a million and about 30,000 black people lived in the colony, most of whom were escaped slaves from south of the border. One of the people Drew interviewed was Harriet Tubman, who was then based in St. Catharines but made several trips to the U.S. South to lead slaves to freedom in Canada. In the course of his journeys in Canada, Drew visited Chatham, Toronto, Galt, Hamilton, London, Dresden, Windsor, and a number of other communities. Originally published in 1856, Drew's book is the only collection of first-hand interviews of fugitive slaves in Canada ever done. It is an invaluable record of early black Canadian experience.
{
384pp,
140x215mm,
June 2008;
PB,
£15.99,
1550028014:9781550028010
, Dundurn Press
} |
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SLUMACH'S GOLD
: In Search of a Legend
[Rick Antonson, Mary Trainer & Brian Antonson]
A Canadian bestseller when it was first published in 1972, this 35th-anniversary edition greatly expands the original, bringing new research, fascinating updates and fresh insights. SLUMACH'S GOLD chronicles what is possibly Canada's greatest lost-mine story. It searches out the truth behind a Salish man's hanging for murder in 1891, and tracks the birth and growth of a legend: the man's death turned into a drama of international fascination when Slumach -- the hanged criminal -- was mysteriously linked to gold nuggets 'the size of walnuts'. According to legend, Slumach placed a curse on his hidden mother lode just before he plunged to his death 'at the wrong end of a five-strand rope', thereby protecting it from interlopers and trespassers for more than a century. Rick Antonson, Mary Trainer and Brian Antonson have diligently sifted through history and myth, separating fact from fiction, but leaving the legend intact -- along with the promise of gold yet to be found by some future gold seeker.
{
160pp,
140x215mm,
October 2007;
PB,
£9.99,
1894974352:9781894974356
, Heritage House Publishing
} |
 |
TOP OF THE PASS
: Whistler & the Sea-to-Sky Country
[Stephen Vogler; Photography by Toshi Kawano & Bonny Makarewicz]
Consistently voted the number one ski resort in North America, Whistler -- situated at the top of a narrow pass in the Coast Mountains 120 kilometres from Vancouver -- sees two million visitors each year, even though the town itself only boasts a full-time population of 10,000. World attention has been increasingly focused on Whistler since 2003, when it was chosen to host the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. "Top of the Pass" is the incredible story of how a cluster of modest log cabins called Alta Lake mushroomed into the glamorous year-round recreation Mecca known as Whistler. Stephen Vogler gives a rare glimpse of a mountain community and the lifestyles of its locals and visitors. Brimming with stunning colour photographs by Toshi Kawano and Bonny Makarewicz, this spectacular coffee-table book shows why Whistler is one of the most visited destinations in Canada.
{
144pp,
215x280mm,
January 2008;
HB,
£23.50,
1550174304:9781550174304
, Harbour Publishing
} |
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TRAIL OF 1858
: British Columbia's Gold Rush Past
[Mark Forsythe & Greg Dickson]
In 1858, over eight decades had passed since Captain James Cook claimed the shores of what would become British Columbia for the British crown, but European settlers had shown little interest in the new lands. The non-aboriginal population was only about 700. Then gold was discovered on the shores of the Fraser River and, overnight, the lonely outpost of empire was overrun by some 30,000 fevered gold-seekers. The raucous sourdough hordes were mostly American and treated the new territory as an extension of the United States. The fragile colonial administration in Victoria was overwhelmed and the territory's future as a British possession hung in the balance. But by the time the gold rush wound down a decade later, the colony of British Columbia had come into being and BC's destiny as a part of Canada was sealed. In "The Trail of 1858", host Mark Forsythe and co-author Greg Dickson augment their historical research with contributions from CBC listeners that give the gold rush story a personal, folksy feel. Making liberal use of historic photos, the authors celebrate memorable personalities from this epic time: the stern but sensible Judge Matthew Begbie; the peacemaking Chief Spintlum; Nam Sing, the first Chinese miner in the Cariboo; overlander Catherine Schubert; high-rolling miners Billy Barker and Cariboo Cameron; and a host of others. "The Trail of 1858" is a combination of fact and memory of the colourful characters who helped form this province; it is a book from which history truly jumps.
{
222pp,
215x255mm,
November 2007;
PB,
£17.99,
155017424X:9781550174243
, Harbour Publishing
} |
 |
WAKING NANABIJOU
: Uncovering a Secret Past
[Jim Poling Sr]
A woman from Ontario is buried and her papers reveal a mystery. The author took on the most important assignment of his career when investigating the secret of why his mother took a lifelong secret to her grave. In searching for clues, he went to a town where his ancestors were believed to have built the railway. During his search, the author explores the place of families in Canadian society and reveals shameful ongoing discrimination against native people and abusive treatment of illegitimacy.
REVIEW: "His storytelling ability...shines bright enough to wake a sleeping giant." -- Christian Hebert, North Bay Nugget, Saturday January 12th, 2008.
{
288pp,
150x230mm,
October 2007;
PB,
£14.99,
1550027573:9781550027570
, Dundurn Press
} |
 |
COLD PANES OF SURFACES
: A Junction Book
[Chris Banks]
The moving second collection of poems from award-winning author Chris Banks. Rooted in the pastoral tradition of Wordsworth, Frost and Wallace Stevens, 'The Cold Panes of Surfaces' describes the Southern Ontario landscape of trains, lakes, moose and pine with unflinchingly sharp image and metaphor. In so doing, he brings to it a distinctly modern edge, meditating on 'the rent we are paying to the planet for our waning lives'. Here, beetles become 'child kamikazes... a wallpaper of yellow-winged flames' and the planet is a 'Museum of Natural Beauty'. Banks takes imaginative leaps into the worlds of a magician's assistant, a fifteenth-century Japanese poet, and the Muse. Most of all, these poems eloquently describe childhood, loss in all its forms, the vagaries of relationships, and being 'a sullen young man / caught in the world's fist'. This is a remarkable collection, and a fitting follow-up to Banks' award-winning first book Bonfires.
{
76pp,
105x205mm,
November 2006;
PB,
£11.50,
0889712220:9780889712225
, Harbour Publishing (Nightwood Editions)
} |
 |
DEAD IN THE WATER
: An Anthology of Canadian Mystery Fiction
[V Malin]
Over eighty per cent of Canadians live near a body of water -- and that means when Canadians turn to crime, somebody usually ends up all wet. In this anthology of original crime fiction, editors Violette Malan and Therese Greenwood celebrate that most Canadian locations: the ocean, lake, or river near you. With tales set across Canada, by award -- winning authors like James Powell, Rick Mofina and Barbara Fradkin, and even a crossover story from fantasy writer Tanya Huff, you may just find your next vacation spot... or maybe not.
{
312pp,
130x190mm,
March 2006;
PB,
£9.99,
1894917375:9781894917377
, AtlasBooks (Napoleon Publishing)
} |
 |
NEW CANON
: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry
[Carmine Starnino]
Collecting the works of 50 modern Canadian poets, this anthology of verse points to an emerging openness toward form in the nation's poetry. The book includes nearly 200 poems from more than 20 presses and an essay that describes and explains the innovations of form that distinguish the featured writers.
{
326pp,
155x230mm,
April 2006;
PB,
£10.99,
1550652087:9781550652086
, IPG (Véhicule Press)
} |
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ONE MUDDY HAND
: Selected Poems of Earle Birney
[Sam Solecki (ed)]
Earle Birney (1904-1995), the father of modern Canadian poetry, was one of Canada's finest writers and the author of 'David', arguably the most popular Canadian poem of all time. One Muddy Hand: Selected Poems features Birney's best work, spanning his entire writing career from 1926 to 1987.
{
204pp,
155x230mm,
October 2006;
PB,
£11.50,
1550173707:9781550173703
, Harbour Publishing
} |
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WE-GYET WANDERS ON
: Legends of the Northwest
[Kitanmax School]
The legends collected here are the ancient stories of the people of 'Ksan who have lived in northern British Columbia for over six thousand years. We-Gyet is the essence of every man's frailties exaggerated into gentle humour or ribald laughter. His adventures always end in disaster. His blunders and tricks changed the face of the earth, and the shapes of many of earth's creatures. We-Gyet was a creator -- by accident!
{
72pp,
215x280mm,
September 2006;
PB,
£8.99,
0888396368:9780888396365
, Hancock House
} |
 |
WHISKEY BULLETS
: Cowboy & Indian Heritage Poems
[Garry Gottfriedson]
This edgy collection explores themes of duality that exist in the parallel worlds of cowboys and Indians. Often satirical, 'Whiskey Bullets' is a testament to adaptability, turning tragedy into humour and pain into passion. It speaks to the unique experience of growing up aboriginal, on the Tk'emlups Reserve (Secwepemc) near Kamloops, with strong First Nation values and traditions, while at the same time immersed in the cowboy and ranching culture of the interior of BC. Gottfriedson skilfully balances his indigenous vision and contemporary concerns, creating a blend of imagery that stimulates the mind's eye like never before. Shattering the cowboy's code of ethics he unveils hidden truths, unspoken and often ignored, bringing to the fore inescapable issues of gender, sexuality, race and politics, infused with aboriginal attitude. Form and content are carefully conceived to celebrate the distinctive aboriginal individuality, the 'shape-shifting' attitudes that are required when one lives simultaneously in two cultures -- Secwepemc and white -- and their two languages. Candid and challenging, Whiskey Bullets is thought-provoking and engaging.
{
95pp,
155x230mm,
September 2006;
PB,
£8.99,
1553800435:9781553800439
, Ronsdale Press
} |
 |
ABOVE THE FALLS
: A Remote Lake, a Burned-Out Cabin, Two Men Missing. Was it Murder?
[John Harris]
In May 1936, George Dalziel flew far up the Nahanni River to check on Bill Eppler and Joe Mulholland, who were working one of his traplines. He found their cabin burned to the ground and no sign of them anywhere. What had happened to the healthy young men? Had there been an accident, or was a killer on the loose? Dalziel, known as 'The Flying Trapper' had a successful trapping operation along the Flat, South Nahanni and Liard rivers. Using his small aeroplane to locate areas rich in marten and beaver, he would leave his men in this wild country and drop in from time to time to check on them and fly out the pelts. The authorities wanted to shut Dal down. So when he saw the burned-down cabin, he knew he was in trouble. In this suspenseful, fact-based novel, John Harris uses RCMP reports and the testimony of local trappers to paint a vivid picture of a gripping winter chase, an unsolved mystery and a now-vanished lifestyle in the great northern wilderness.
{
192pp,
140x190mm,
May 2007;
PB,
£12.99,
1894898559:9781894898553
, Heritage House Publishing (TouchWood Editions)
} |
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BIJABOJI
: North to Alaska by Oar
[Betty Lowman Carey; Edited by Neil G Carey]
Bijaboji is a classic of boating literature worthy of a place beside The Curve of Time by Muriel Wylie Blanchet, whose coastal narrative dates from the same period. Betty Lowman was 22 years old in June 1937 when she climbed into her beloved red dugout canoe, Bijaboji, and set out on a journey from Puget Sound to Alaska. Traversing some of the most treacherous waters on earth, the journey would have been a risky act for an extreme adventurer in any era; for a young woman in the conservative 1930s, it was a venture of almost unimaginable daring. Betty pulled it off, and now, 67 years later, she accomplishes an equal feat -- a book of pure adventure. Bijaboji is a classic of boating literature worthy of a place beside The Curve of Time by Muriel Wylie Blanchet, whose coastal narrative dates from the same period. Betty slips through quiet water by moonlight, her oars dripping with phosphorescence. She goes deer hunting with a young Native man near Sechelt. She travels with a boat full of exuberant Boy Scouts for a few days and she visits lightkeepers, loggers, fishermen, doctors, missionaries and other coast dwellers who live in beautiful, isolated places and who speak openly about their lives, loves and politics. She also braves storms, rapids and blistering heat. In Douglas Channel Bijaboji capsizes and Betty loses her oars and everything she owns, except her boat and her sleeping bag. She is trapped on a precarious rock ledge for three harrowing days until rescued by Native fishermen. Through it all, she copes with her growing celebrity as people all along the coast watch for her, at the same time as they wait for news on the abdication of Edward VIII and on the disappearance of another female adventurer, Amelia Earhart. This is an amazing account written by a smart, strong, funny, independent woman with a glad heart and an abiding love of the BC coast.
{
288pp,
155x230mm,
February 2006;
PB,
£16.99,
1550173928:9781550173925
, Harbour Publishing
} |
 |
CANADIAN ROCKIES
: New & Old Trails
[A P Coleman; Foreword by Chic Scott]
Arthur Philemon Coleman was a passionate Canadian and one of the first to truly discover the beauty and majesty of this country's mountain ranges as an explorer, geologist and mountaineer. In 1884, before the railway traversed the Rocky and Columbia mountains, Coleman headed west on the first of what would be eight mountaineering expeditions, making his way on foot and pack horse, with Native guides and without, over passes in Alberta and British Columbia. First published in 1911, this new edition gives modern-day readers a glimpse of the early days of mountaineering in the Canadian west. It paints a sympathetic picture of the rugged men and women who opened the region and of the hardships they endured. In his travels he encountered some of the main characters in Canadian mountaineering history, including Mary Schäffer, Joby Beaver, Frank Sibbald, Reverend George Kinney and Adolphus Moberly.
{
224pp,
140x215mm,
September 2006;
PB,
£13.50,
1894765761:9781894765763
, Heritage House Publishing (Rocky Mountain Books)
} |
 |
DIVA & THE RANCHER
: The Story of Norma Piper & George Pocaterra
[Jennifer Hamblin & David Finch]
Big dreams, dashed hopes and romance are at the heart of this biography of Norma and George Pocaterra. The story begins in 1903 when George Pocaterra left Italy and came to the Canadian Rockies with hopes of striking it rich. George is best known for establishing the Buffalo Head Ranch in the foothills of Alberta. He developed a close friendship with members of the Stoney Indians, and was one of the first non-Natives to explore much of what is now called Kananaskis Country. In 1933, he returned to Italy, where he met and fell in love with Norma Piper, a young Calgary singer who had moved to Italy to study opera. They eventually married, and George took over the management of Norma's rising operatic career. World War II forced a return to Canada in 1939. In Calgary, Norma became part of the local music scene, giving concerts and teaching singing at Mount Royal College. In 1955, she started her own studio and over the next 25 years became one of Calgary's most loved music teachers. George, meanwhile, continued with his coal-mining ventures, although he suffered bitter disappointments. Drawing on personal diaries and correspondence, the authors have created an intimate portrait of these remarkable Albertans who became, each in their own way, legends in their lifetimes.
{
320pp,
155x230mm,
May 2006;
PB,
£18.99,
1894765702:9781894765701
, Heritage House Publishing (Rocky Mountain Books)
} |
 |
DR DELICIOUS
: Memoirs of a Life in CanLit
[Robert Lecker]
With sharp humor and fascinating insight, this memoir of the Canadian publishing industry travels from the boom years of the 1970s to the changing world of books today. Readers are invited along for the ride as Lecker's turn in academia gives way to pop culture publishing, running a journal, and facing the real business challenges of selling books.
{
193pp,
140x215mm,
September 2006;
PB,
£10.99,
1550652109:9781550652109
, IPG (Véhicule Press)
} |
 |
GO TO SCHOOL YOU'RE A LITTLE BLACK BOY
: A Memoir
[The Honourable Lincoln M Alexander with Herb Shoveller]
Among the important stories that need to be told about noteworthy Canadians, Lincoln Alexander’s sits at the top of the list. Born in Toronto in 1922, the son of a maid and a railway porter, Alexander embarked on an exemplary life path that has involved military service for his country, a successful political career, a thriving law career, and vocal advocacy on subjects ranging from antiracism to the importance of education. In this biography, Shoveller traces a remarkable series of events from Alexander’s early life to the present that helped shape the charismatic and influential leader whose impact continues to be felt today. From facing down racism to challenging the post-war Ontario establishment, becoming Canada’s first black member of Parliament, entertaining royalty as Ontario’s lieutenant-governor, and serving as chancellor of one of Canada’s leading universities, Alexander’s is the ultimate, uplifting Canadian success story, the embodiment of what defines Canada.
{
254pp,
155x230mm,
November 2006;
HB,
£20.00,
1550026631:9781550026634
, Dundurn Press
} |
 |
GUARDIANS OF THE PEAKS
: Mountain Rescue in the Canadian Rockies & Columbia Mountains
[Kathy Calvert & Dale Portman]
Mountain rescue in western Canada developed through the Canadian Pacific Railway's use of Swiss guides to enhance the climbing experience in the early 1900s. These guides brought their knowledge of mountain rescue to the Canadian Rockies. As climbing gained in popularity with the emerging middle classes after the Second World War, tragic accidents became more common. Two accidents in 1954-55 (the deaths of a group of female climbers from Mexico on Mt Victoria and a group of Philadelphia schoolboys on Mt Temple) forced the government to develop a professional mountain rescue team through the Park Warden Service under the tutelage of Walter Perren (a Swiss guide and the father of mountain rescue in Canada). Perren essentially turned cowboys into competent rescue personnel, and the story takes off from there. Following five principal men through the first 50 years of mountain rescue in Canada, Guardians of the Peaks also looks at all aspects of the rescue experience. The story is enhanced by the rescue events themselves, which are solidly juxtaposed between the stories and the political, cultural and technical developments of the time. It is also the story of personal tragedy and the ability of individuals to cope with this stress-laced, demanding occupation.
{
328pp,
200x250mm,
November 2006;
PB,
£23.50,
189476580X:9781894765800
, Heritage House Publishing (Rocky Mountain Books)
} |
 |
HEART OF THE CARIBOO-CHILCOTIN
: More Stories Worth Keeping
[Diana Wilson (ed)]
This anthology continues the story of the Cariboo-Chilcotin, a harshly beautiful and remote region in BC's north. From the days of the gold rush through to modern times, these stories capture the spirit of a place whose beauty and wildness have inspired its people throughout its history. Legendary tales include a husband's promise to his dying wife that he will not let her body languish in what to her is an alien, inhospitable land. How the theft of a nugget pin in Barkerville leads to a murderer's capture. The ill-conceived plan to use camels on the Cariboo Road. Native traditions and skills handed down through generations. The wild and woolly early years of the Cariboo stampedes. A sasquatch-sized bear that inadvertently becomes a cash cow for one hunting guide. These accounts of Cariboo-Chilcotin life are as diverse as they are fascinating: some nostalgic, some deeply moving, and some that will tickle the funny bone in a most agreeable way. Contributors include Sage Birchwater, Veera Bonner, Chilco Choate, Eric Collier, Alan Fry, Rich Hobson, Eldon Lee, Todd Lee, Harry Marriott, Hilary Place, Robin Skelton, Jean E Speare, Paul St Pierre, Irene Stangoe and Ann Walsh.
{
255pp,
155x230mm,
May 2007;
PB,
£11.99,
189497428X:9781894974288
, Heritage House Publishing
} |
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HEART OF THE CARIBOO-CHILCOTIN
: Stories Worth Keeping
[Diana Wilson (ed)]
Heart of the Cariboo-Chilcotin features stories about the clashes between people and nature, genders and generations, Whites and Natives, lawbreakers and the law, conquerors and conservationists. First in a series, this anthology of diverse voices tells the story of the Cariboo-Chilcotin, a harshly beautiful and remote region in BC's north. The stories cover a wide range of topics, including Native life on the cusp of change and how that change is handled; gold miners seeking adventure but finding heartache and occasionally riches; travellers on the famous Cariboo Road; and the first tourist to the area. The authors speak of differences, but also of common ground, of places where the voices harmonise with shared concerns, dreams and goals that cross all boundaries in the timeless human striving to explore and create, and to build a place to call home. This collection of voices sings to the beat of the one true Cariboo-Chilcotin heart, sounding out its strength and humility, grit and humour, community and self-sacrifice.
{
240pp,
150x230mm,
April 2006;
PB,
£13.50,
1894974085:9781894974080
, Heritage House Publishing
} |
 |
HOW THE GRANOLA-CRUNCHING, TREE-HUGGING, THUG HUGGERS ARE WRECKING OUR COUNTRY!
[Lowell Green]
If this book doesn't get your blood boiling you may need a transfusion! Tough-minded, humorous, well-researched, and proudly politically incorrect, this book will drive Canada's leftists absolutely crazy! In the unique style that has endeared him to one of Canada's largest and most loyal radio audiences, best-selling author Lowell Green launches an all-out exposé on those Canadians he says are wrecking our country. He tackles issues ranging from our dangerous refugee, immigration and multicultural policies to the soft-on-crime gang with their needle and crack-pipe handouts, the Kyoto Accord, Canada's homeless 'industry' and much more.
{
208pp,
February 2007;
HB,
£19.50,
1894439309:9781894439305
, Creative Bound Inc.
} |
 |
MOOSE TO MOCCASINS, 2ND EDITION
: The Story of Ka Kita Wa Pa No Kwe
[Madeline Katt Theriault]
Having been born in a tent on Bear Island, Lake Temagami, in 1908, Madeline Katt Theriault could recall an earlier independent and traditional First Nations lifestyle. In this book, the late author proudly tells of her youth and coming of age by sharing her vivid memories and drawing on exceptional old family photographs. In her own words, she writes of a time long ago -- a time that was difficult, but not without personal rewards.
{
120pp,
155x230mm,
August 2006;
PB,
£12.50,
1897045158:9781897045152
, Natural Heritage Books
} |
 |
NECHAKO COUNTRY
: In the Footsteps of Bert Irvine
[June Wood]
The indomitable spirit of Bert Irvine is at the heart of Nechako Country, a story that provides a glimpse into a simpler world in simpler times. After Bert moved his young family from Barrhead in north-western Alberta to Vanderhoof in central British Columbia, the Upper Nechako country and the Nechako River became an integral part of their lives. Bert's life was and still is intertwined with the wilderness, and the country itself is a major player in this tale. Spanning 1934 to 2005, a period of unprecedented and fast-paced change, much of the story focuses on the '50s and '60s. As the wilderness way of life continues to be replaced by a new world of high technology, and the wilderness itself is pushed back and badly bruised, Nechako Country provides a window into the past and a lifestyle that has all but vanished. In part the story of one man's journey through life as a trapper, guide-outfitter and jack-of-all trades, it is also a history of the Upper Nechako Valley and its people. And, possibly most importantly, it is the story of the tortured Nechako River, the lifeblood of the beloved Nechako country.
{
176pp,
140x215mm,
April 2007;
PB,
£11.99,
1894974271:9781894974271
, Heritage House Publishing
} |
 |
OLD INDIAN TRAILS OF THE CANADIAN ROCKIES
[Mary T S Schaffer]
Mary T S Schäffer was an avid explorer and one of the first non-Native women to venture into the heart of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, where few women -- or men -- had gone before. First published in 1911, 'Old Indian Trails of the Canadian Rockies' is Schäffer's story of her adventures in the traditionally male-dominated world of climbing and exploration. It also sheds light on Native and non-Native relations at the early part of the 20th century. Full of daring adventure and romantic depictions of camp life, set against the grand backdrop of Canada's mountain landscapes, the book introduces readers to various characters from the annals of Canadian mountaineering history, including Arthur Philemon Coleman, Billy Warren, Sid Unwin, Bill Peyto and Jimmy Simpson. 'Old Indian Trails of the Canadian Rockies' is certain to entertain and enlighten 21st-century readers, historians, hikers and climbers.
{
180pp,
140x215mm,
April 2007;
PB,
£8.99,
189476577X:9781894765770
, Heritage House Publishing (Rocky Mountain Books)
} |
 |
PORK CHOP & OTHER STORIES
: A Memoir
[Lowell Green]
On the eve of his 50th year in broadcasting, Lowell Green is the godfather of talk radio. No other talk show host in North America has been doing talk radio as long or as successfully. In the course of his career, Lowell has not only reported on the news of the day, he has helped to create it. From his earliest formative years in small-town Ontario, with its cast of extraordinary characters, through a lifetime of adventure and outspoken service to his community, Lowell's memoir, will touch the hearts and tickle the funny bones of friends and foes alike. From saving the Centennial Flame, speaking out in support of Canada's war veterans and repatriating Canada's flag, to co-founding Big Brothers of Ottawa, founding the Help Santa Claus Parade and helping to raise millions for charities, Lowell Green is known as a man who gets things done... and isn't afraid to ruffle feathers in the process.
{
256pp,
155x230mm,
February 2007;
PB,
£14.99,
1894439325:9781894439329
, Creative Bound Inc.
} |
 |
ROBERT SERVICE
: Under the Spell of the Yukon
[Enid Mallory; Foreword by Jack Whyte]
Dressed in cowboy garb acquired in a Scottish auction room, a naive but committed young Robert Service stepped off the CPR train in Vancouver, sustained only by his sense of adventure. Sixteen years later, he would leave Canada as the author of the most commercially successful poems written in the 20th century. Service's time in the Yukon, at first as a transplanted bank clerk and later living off the royalties of poems like "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee", is the core of a fascinating life. Starving in Mexico, residing in a California bordello, farming on Vancouver Island and pursuing unrequited love in Vancouver were only preludes to his Yukon years and his first poems. Words were Robert Service's lifelong passion, and he set them on many stages. But it was his McGrew, McGee and other players of the Great White North who glittered with a golden glow and forever made him the "Bard of the Yukon" and the de facto poet laureate of Alaska. This book sheds light on aspects of Service's life that have been sketchily covered by other biographers, focusing on his years in Canada and the western U.S. 2006 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of "Songs of a Sourdough", which sold over three million copies and was the most successful poetry book of the 20th century.
{
238pp,
155x230mm,
October 2006;
HB,
£21.99,
1894384954:9781894384957
, Heritage House Publishing
} |
 |
SAILOR IN SNOWSHOES
: Jack London's Klondike Caper
[Dick North]
In 1897, a 21-year-old unemployed Californian named Jack London borrowed funds so he could make his fortune in the Klondike. His life prior to the gold rush had been a story of toil and lean days. He knew how to pitch a tent, start a fire with minimal effort and how to go without either a fire or a blanket if circumstances required. He had lived in close quarters with sailors before the mast, tramps on the road and even convicts in jail. Though London set sail for the Klondike to accumulate gold rather than write about it, in the back of his mind lurked a resolve to become a writer. Everywhere he wandered, his alert intellect absorbed the experiences and observations he would later organise into mesmerising stories. Through his painstaking research and keen intellect, North offers new insight into London as a young man and the far-off land that inspired his fame.
{
248pp,
152x228mm,
March 2006;
PB,
£13.50,
1550173847:9781550173840
, Harbour Publishing
} |
 |
TO TOUCH A DREAM
: A Wilderness Adventure
[Sunny Wright]
This warm-hearted memoir tells the story of the dream of many North Americans: to throw up a dull job and journey into the wilderness to live off the land. Sunny Wright does exactly that when she decides at age twenty-eight to quit working at a "man-sized job for a female wage" in a Vancouver sawmill. With her young daughter Lisa and friend Betty, they sell off everything from their urban existence and outfit themselves with two trucks full of goods for the journey in to northern British Columbia in search of a place to live. They have never even gone camping before, but they are determined to succeed, and they do. After much searching they find land near Vanderhoof and begin the hard but joy-filled labour of constructing their own house, their own barn and setting up as subsistence farmers. Eventually they will learn how to run a bootleg still for extra money and will become famous in the area for the dogs they raise and the winter trips they take by dogsled. This is a book that readers can enjoy as they live alongside Sunny, Betty and Lisa in the bush, watching them learn to build log houses, make friends with the fiercely individualistic people of the back country, survive the desperately cold winters and enjoy the independence of rural life. Includes many black-and-white photos of their life in the bush.
{
188pp,
155x230mm,
March 2006;
PB,
£12.99,
1553800354:9781553800354
, Ronsdale Press
} |
 |
TOTEM POLES & TEA, 2ND EDITION
[Hughina Harold]
Hughina Harold paints a powerful picture of a world that no longer exists in this compelling first-hand account of her experiences as a young teacher/nurse in a remote BC village in the 1930s. Fresh from nursing school in Victoria and eager to get started in her career, Harold could not have imagined the challenges that awaited her on isolated Village Island on BC's majestic coast. When she left her home in Victoria to share with two elderly missionaries a drafty, leaky float home that tilted with the tides, the clash of cultures 'Miss B'. experienced could not have been more extreme. Ferried in unreliable boats to remote outposts to treat the sick, attending births in the most primitive conditions, and teaching-from standard, middle-class textbooks-children who had never even seen a car, this gutsy young woman 'witnessed things that should not be forgotten'. Totem Poles and Tea-now updated with original photos
{
224pp,
155x230mm,
March 2006;
PB,
£13.50,
1894974131:9781894974134
, Heritage House Publishing
} |
 |
TRAIL TO THE INTERIOR
[R M Patterson]
Trail to the Interior is R M Patterson's rich account of exploration and personal adventure in the Cassiar district of British Columbia. The 'trail' is the historic track from Wrangell, Alaska, along the Stikine and Dease rivers and across the height of the land into the valleys of the Liard and the Mackenzie. Explorers and traders of the Hudson's Bay Company and the Russian American Company had ventured this river route, and Raymond Patterson followed in their footsteps.
{
288pp,
155x230mm,
May 2007;
PB,
£11.99,
1894898508:9781894898508
, Heritage House Publishing (TouchWood Editions)
} |
 |
BROADWAY NORTH
: The Dream of a Canadian Musical Theatre
[Mel Atkey]
Did you know that the idea behind the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes was first tried out in Toronto? That Canada produced the world's longest-running annual revue? Few people realise the Canadian influences that are at the heart of American and British culture. Author Mel Atkey's research for BROADWAY NORTH included interviews with Norman and Elaine Campbell and Don Harron, creators of Anne of Green Gables -- The Musical; Mavor Moore, founder of the Charlottetown Festival and of Spring Thaw; John Gray, author of Billy Bishop Goes to War; Ray Jessel and Marian Grudeff, Spring Thaw writers who had success on Broadway with Baker Street; Dolores Claman, composer of the Hockey Night In Canada theme, who also wrote the musicals Mr Scrooge and Timber; and Galt MacDermott, the composer of Hair who started out writing songs for the McGill University revue My Fur Lady. Atkey also draws on his own experience as a writer and composer of musicals, and tells the story of why a show that should have starred James Doohan (Star Trek's Scotty) didn't happen.
{
311pp,
205x255mm,
October 2006;
PB,
£20.99,
1897045085:9781897045084
, Natural Heritage Books
} |
 |
HISTORICAL DISTILLATES
: Chemistry at the University of Toronto Since 1843
[W A E (Peter) McBryde Phd & Adrian G Brook PhD]
This book examines the history of the Chemistry Department at the University of Toronto from its beginnings in 1843, when it was housed in simple quarters in the Parliament Buildings on Front Street and had just one faculty member. During the founding era (1843-1920) three British gentlemen professors guided the department through four homes; between 1920 and 1960 three Canadian heads built a highly influential department. Since 1960 eight chairmen have effectively managed a growing and diverse department while it ventured into exciting new fields and emerging sub-disciplines. New colleges and a Nobel Prize have been highlights of the past two decades. With the completion of recent renovations and additions (such as the Davenport Research Building and Garden), with its distinguished faculty, top-rate staff, and excellent students, and with its dazzling array of equipment to support research, the department’s future indeed looks bright.
{
256pp,
155x230mm,
February 2007;
PB,
£15.00,
1550027247:9781550027242
/
HB,
£25.00,
1550027093:9781550027099
, Dundurn Press
} |
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I WAS THERE
: A Century of Alumni Stories about the University of Alberta, 19062006
[Ellen Schoeck]
This country fascinates me. Everything is new; the people young, and the conviction grows that great things are bound to happen in this rich new country. Henry Marshall Tory undoubtedly included the creation of the University of Alberta among these "great things". First-person stories and period photographs present a unique insight into university lore from the vantage point of those who were most intimately involved in making the university what it is today: the students and alumni.
{
757pp,
210x260mm,
October 2006;
HB,
£23.50,
0888644647:9780888644640
, University of Alberta Press
} |
 |
PEOPLE, FISH & WHALES
: The Vancouver Aquarium Story
[Dr Murray Newman]
When it opened in 1956, the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre was the first public aquarium to be built in Canada. When the first curator ordered some small clownfish and blue damselfish from an aquarium hobby store in Oakland, California, the $300 cost was so exorbitant that he thought surely he would be fired. Today, half a century later, the aquarium is home to 60,000 aquatic creatures and has an annual operating budget topping $13 million. This is a behind-the-scenes underdog success story, a celebration of what the aquarium has achieved and a look into its future role, as told by Dr. Murray Newman, aquarium director from 1956 to 1993. From its humble beginnings -- when it was without collecting equipment or even a cash register -- the aquarium grew piece by piece, gallery by gallery, until it became a major biological institution internationally recognised for its exhibits and its programs in education, conservation and research. The aquarium has welcomed 30 million visitors to the underwater world and introduced generations of schoolchildren to the importance of conservation. With text accompanied by stunning colour photographs from the aquarium archives, Newman recalls the people, creatures, controversies and triumphs that make up a fascinating history of a non-profit organisation entirely supported by the public. Entertaining sidebars feature anecdotes about the aquarium's resident animals, conservation awareness work, research and personnel.
{
120pp,
203x228mm,
April 2006;
PB,
£13.50,
1550173820:9781550173826
, Harbour Publishing
} |
 |
SCHWARTZ'S HEBREW DELICATESSEN
: The Story
[Bill Brownstein]
This whimsical look at the eccentric owners and the diverse characters who call Schwartz's Delicatessen in Montreal home offers a mix of social history and wicked humor, and tackles such issues as the debate over pastrami and smoked meat, language laws, and the perils of business expansion.
{
155pp,
145x215mm,
September 2006;
PB,
£10.99,
1550652125:9781550652123
, IPG (Véhicule Press)
} |
 |
STORY OF DUNBAR
: Voices of a Vancouver Neighbourhood
[Peggy Schofield (ed)]
Draws on interviews with more than 350 local residents, including both recent arrivals and descendants of pioneers. Their personal accounts are woven together with information from diaries and other records in the City of Vancouver Archives and carefully chosen published sources to form twelve chapters that explore different aspects of community life. The arts, churches and schools, how people shopped and how they got around, where they lived and relaxed are all described. Read about how this "streetcar suburb" developed from forest and farmland, how it was impacted by world events, and what made it both typical and unique. This is a story of the past century -- from the settlement of the West to the development of a modern world-class city -- brought to life through the experiences of people living in the neighbourhood of Dunbar. It is a reminder that history occurs in the streets of quiet out-of-the-way neighbourhoods as surely as on battlefields and in corporate boardrooms.
{
441pp,
215x280mm,
October 2006;
PB,
£23.50,
1553800400:9781553800408
, Ronsdale Press
} |
 |
TORONTO SKETCHES 9
: The Way We Were, Columns from the Toronto Sunday Sun
[Mike Filey]
Mike Filey's column 'The Way We Were' first appeared in the Toronto Sunday Sun not long after the first edition of the paper hit the news stands and front porches on September 16, 1973. Since that day more than three decades ago, Mike's column has enjoyed an uninterrupted stretch as one of the paper's most popular features. In 1992 a number of his columns were reprinted in Toronto Sketches: The Way We Were by Dundurn Group (Dundurn Press). Since then another seven volumes of Toronto Sketches have been published, each of which has attained great success both with Toronto book buyers and with former Torontonians wishing to relive an earlier, gentler time in the city's past. This ninth volume features a variety of stories, including a look at Toronto's 1904 inferno, the birth of Rex Heslop's Rexdale community, a visit to Sunnyside Amusement Park, and a few fascinating tales about the city's streetcars.
{
238pp,
155x230mm,
May 2006;
PB,
£9.99,
1550026135:9781550026139
, Dundurn Press
} |
 |
WESTWOOD
: Everyone's Favourite Racing Circuit
[Tom Johnston]
Westwood (or 'Wetwood' as some called it) was the first purpose-built automobile road-racing track in Canada. Its location in Coquitlam on the slopes of British Columbia's coastal mountains meant that it often rained, but the rest of the time it may well have been the most beautiful racing circuit in the world. The track was built and owned by the Sports Car Club of British Columbia. SCCBC members viewed it as a special place where family members of racing enthusiasts grew up over its 32 seasons. The track ran just about any kind of racing that came along for cars, motorcycles and karts, but was best known for its spectacular races for smaller formula cars, Formula Atlantic in particular. Sadly, in 1990 Westwood suffered the common fate of racetracks located near expanding cities world-wide and was converted into a housing development and golf course.
{
120pp,
280x215mm,
September 2007;
PB,
£32.50,
189469449X:9781894694490
, Granville Island Publishing
} |
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BUCKAROOS & MUD PUPS
: The Early Days of Ranching in British Columbia
[Ken Mather]
Buckaroos and Mud Pups tells the story of ranching in frontier British Columbia, highlighting the people and events that shaped the industry. Starting in 1858 with the first of the drives that would see more than 22,000 head of cattle brought into the province over the next 10 years, it moves through to 1914, by which time ranching in the BC Interior had become big business. These are stories about drovers, ranchers, cowboys and 'mud pups' (trainees), about ups and downs, hard work and hard play, as a fledgling industry responded to the events that either helped or hindered its growth. Ken Mather captures the spirit of these times with tales of remarkable drives, famous ranches and legendary characters-people like the flamboyant Harper brothers, drovers who eventually became the biggest landowners in BC Buckaroos and Mud Pups is an entertaining look at fascinating times and the men who made them so.
{
222pp,
155x230mm,
May 2006;
PB,
£13.50,
1894974093:9781894974097
, Heritage House Publishing
} |
 |
FOLLOWING THE BOULDER TRAIN
: Travels with Prospectors & Rock Doctors
[Tomy Henry]
Mining is BC's second largest industry but you'd never know it to visit any BC bookstore. Books on logging, fishing, and tourism are there in abundance, but the subject of mining is practically untouched. As Tom Henry proves beyond a doubt in this lively volume, it is not for any lack of wonderful stories about the men and women who have been bitten by the rock-chipping bug over the years. Henry actually took a course in exploration geology and experienced first hand the unique way of looking at the world peculiar to mineral hunters. Every rock is an 'outcrop' with a story to tell about the forces that formed the local landscape, and what mineral treasures may be hidden beneath. Following the Boulder Train is full of remarkable life histories of legendary prospectors who made fortunes but couldn't take enough time away from bushwhacking to enjoy them, and of others who enjoyed them too much, making and losing so many fortunes they can't remember them all. The book offers memorable insights into the driven, obsessed world of mineral exploration and the mining industry in BC.
{
192pp,
155x230mm,
October 2006;
HB,
£23.50,
1550173774:9781550173772
, Harbour Publishing
} |
 |
FORT DE PRAIRIES
: The Story of Fort Edmonton
[Brock Silversides]
Fort Edmonton was a prairie institution and icon from 1795 to 1915. It was both a physical edifice and a community, not to mention a touchstone of western Canadian commercial history. Its story is rich in drama and colour: Métis fiddlers at midnight, dwarves firing cannons, duelling clergy, never-ending public drumming, secret agents, the raising of the skull-and-crossbones flag, bears quaffing cold drinks -- at times it seemed like a circus had taken up residence there. It is also a chronicle of intimidation and murder, battles between whites and First Nations, epidemics and famines, destruction by fire, whiskey traders, horse stealing, mutinies, rebellion and, finally, government neglect and stealthy demolition. A wealth of both accurate and questionable written descriptions of the fort were produced over the years. A rich body of visual representations was also created -- sketches, engravings, book and magazine illustrations, and paintings and photographs relating to different periods. It is from the accumulation of all these documents that the fascinating story of Fort Edmonton is pieced together and told in all its glory.
{
170pp,
245x240mm,
January 2005;
PB,
£17.99,
1894384989:9781894384988
, Heritage House Publishing
} |
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HILLS OF SILVER
: The Yukon's Mighty Keno Hill Mine
[Dr Aaro E Aho]
The Yukon is famous for its Klondike gold rush, but it was the site of another major mineral discovery in 1918 that touched off its own stampede of sourdoughs and eventually produced more paydirt than the Klondike. This was the fabulously rich Keno Hill silver deposit, which made the Yukon one of the world's leading silver producers and backstopped the territorial economy for decades. And as the Klondike strike gave rise to the boom town of Dawson, the Keno strike fostered feisty Keno City, the last of the wild west mining towns: "Down in shacks by Lightning Creek, vintners and vendors of moonshine and the sporting girls catered to the miners on weekends amid scratching gramophone melodies. At that time Keno was a really lively town of 800 men, very few women and much hard drinking. Some of the boys had an old car called the Rum Runner that took cases of booze up to the camps every evening. At first both camps had the same second Sunday off but with two crews in, there was not enough of everything desirable to go around and a running donnybrook would break out. After a few wholesale brawls, which inevitably led to more drinking and absenteeism on Mondays, the companies alternated their Sundays off." At the top of the social order was the puritanical mine boss, Livingstone Wernecke, who never stopped inveighing against vice, "but Wernecke found that he did not run Keno; it ran itself." The story of Keno's discovery, development and decline is one of the great adventures of the north, and it is told here by one of the Yukon's legendary mining personalities, Dr Aaro Aho. Dr Aho's authoritative voice on mining matters is nicely offset by his taste for juicy gossip, as he fills the book with delightful portraits of such characters as Arthur Hester (aka Whiskey Jack), a dishevelled former engraver to Queen Victoria of whom the Wernecke said, "Never give Hester anything but meat or grease or he will find some way of turning it into alcohol". Hester, who could dash off a passable likeness in trade for a drink no matter how drunk, kept well oiled nonetheless. Or Nora, the tough prostitute who went about town dressed in nothing but toenail paint. When a customer once asked why her foot was covered in blood she explained she had killed a rabbit for dinner by kicking it. Or Marie, a pretty young woman who did very well as a "girl on the line" bought two houses, started a restaurant and taxi business, but lost her mind and was seen wading through deep snow placing handfuls of jewellery in people's mail boxes before disappearing into the wilderness. Aho extends his account to cover the mining history of the entire Stewart River basin, which in addition to its wealth of silver, was a major producer of lead, zinc and gold. "Hills of Silver" is not just the colourful story of Keno Hill, but an important addition to the history of Canadian mining.
{
336pp,
155x230mm,
April 2006;
PB,
£17.99,
1550173944:9781550173949
, Harbour Publishing (Lost Moose Publishing)
} |
 |
RANCHING WITH LORDS & COMMONS
[John R Craig]
Tells the fascinating story of the famous Oxley Ranch. John Craig, Oxley's former manager, self-published the book in 1903, turning out 1000 copies. Craig shows what the cattle business was really like when ranching got underway in the late 1800s in what would eventually become Alberta. He focuses on the struggles to set up the ranch on 100,000 acres first leased in 1881, and the trials and tribulations of working with absentee owners. At the time, he felt there was a need for his observations on the launch of the Oxley Ranch because 'the troubles therein depicted were at one time notorious in Alberta and the State of Montana', and the incidents recorded in his book were 'faithful reproductions of actual facts in the pioneer life of the western cattleman'. This story-and the history it reveals-provides insight into the cattle industry today.
{
224pp,
140x215mm,
August 2006;
PB,
£10.99,
1894974050:9781894974059
, Heritage House Publishing
} |
 |
ROYAL CITY
: A Photographic History of New Westminster, 1858-1960
[Jim Wolf]
Rediscover New Westminster in this richly illustrated history that features many never-before-published images. Royal City is intended to be a treasured keepsake for current and past residents as well as useful tool for anyone interested in the history of British Columbia's first capital city and early photographers. Each chapter begins with a brief history highlighting the city's development during a specific period. Photographs represent that period's built landscape, society, business, industries, sports, celebrations and disasters. New Westminster was founded at the same time photography was becoming a standard means of documentation. In Royal City, it is possible to experience the past with photographers such as F G Claudet, who was equipped as one of the first professional photographers in BC. His exquisite photographs captured the wilderness upon which New Westminster was built. Subsequently other photographers passed through the city, while others established studios there, all of them documenting its growth over time. Claudet and other talented photographers are highlighted in this book with sidebar biographies and a comprehensive index of all Royal City studio photographers is included for reference.
{
192pp,
215x280mm,
March 2006;
HB,
£26.99,
1894384849:9781894384841
, Heritage House Publishing
} |
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BENT PROPS & BLOW POTS
: A Pioneer Remembers Northern Bush Flying
[Rex Terpening]
Crash landings were part of the job in the early 1930s, when Rex Terpening started out in arctic aviation. As an air engineer for Canadian Airways in the Northwest Territories, Terpening took the right-hand seat in the cockpit and flew 'on operations' daily, warming the oil and the engine on winter mornings, refuelling, and inevitably mending both engine and aircraft when things went wrong. Terpening's beat stretched from Fort McMurray to the Arctic Ocean, and his remarkable bush-flying stories tell of planes wandering lost over unmapped muskeg, perilous rescue missions to retrieve stranded missionaries, dogged searches for downed flyers lost on the Barrens and emergency landings in blizzards on nameless pothole lakes. But there is humour, too, in tales of a drunken wolverine, a planeload of rambunctious sled dogs and a trip in a tiny Fairchild with a Catholic priest and the wife of an Anglican minister. And there are vivid evocations of the sheer joy of flying over the Arctic's raw beauty. Rex Terpening not only kept a meticulous journal from which these stories are derived, he carried his camera everywhere, snapping pictures of downed machines, their step-by-step resurrections, the men who flew them and those who fixed them. Most of those men and machines are gone now, but they live on in Bent Props and Blow Pots.
{
338pp,
155x230mm,
October 2006;
PB,
£16.99,
1550173812:9781550173819
, Harbour Publishing
} |
 |
DISASTER ON MOUNT SLESSE
: The Story of Western Canada's Worst Air Crash
[Betty O'Keefe & Ian MacDonald]
A gripping account of Western Canada's worst aviation disaster. Mount Slesse, a jagged 2,500-metre peak near Chilliwack BC known locally as 'The Fang' lived up to its evil reputation on December 9, 1956, when Trans Canada Airlines Flight 810 slammed into it, killing all 62 aboard. For five months nobody knew what happened. Flight 810 had just disappeared into the night. Adding to the sensation was the fact that the flight carried five professional football players fresh from the CFL All Star game in Vancouver and a mystery man by the name of Kwan Song who was rumoured to be carrying a sizeable fortune in cash. Finally on May 10, 1957, a diminutive female mountaineer named Elfrida Pigou discovered the gruesome crash site, setting off a stampede of macabre treasure hunters. It wasn't until May 25, 1995, that the BC government placed a protective zone around the debris field, declaring it a Heritage Wreck Site. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of this historic tragedy, Betty O'Keefe and Ian Macdonald have written a gripping, blow-by-blow account of western Canada's worst aviation disaster, carefully examining its context, causes and aftermath.
{
176pp,
155x230mm,
October 2006;
PB,
£14.99,
1894759214:9781894759212
, Harbour Publishing (Caitlin Press)
} |
 |
SKY'S THE LIMIT
: Canadian Women Bush Pilots
[Joyce Spring]
The women pilots profiled in this book have flown from British Columbia to Newfoundland and in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Right from the beginning of her interviews and research, the author found herself constantly amazed by the achievements of the women involved. Within the book are the stories of early Canadian women bush pilots from the late 1940s onwards. Their stories are exciting, occasionally funny, and always absorbing. Ranging from aerial surveys, water bombing of fires, flying fish, canoes and northern dogs, to the operation of a float-plane flying school, these women have left little undone. One pilot, Judy Cameron, was the first Canadian woman to be hired by an airline. Flying north of Superior, Elizabeth Wieben recalls the time that she flew naked. In pilot Suzanne Pettigrew's own words, "We sure have come a long way and the ride was an awful lot of fun".
{
184pp,
155x230mm,
October 2006;
PB,
£18.99,
1897045166:9781897045169
, Natural Heritage Books
} |
 |
SMOKE IN THE COCKPIT
: The Flying Adventures of Don 'Smokey' Patry
[H J Smith]
The true story of Canadian bush pilot Don 'Smokey' Patry is a succession of brave take-offs, daring landings, and high intensity turbulence every minute in-between.
REVIEW: "Bi-planes pieced together with spruce branches and baling twine, flying blind in the Arctic winter, delivering heavy bombers to WWII Europe and flying commercial airliners at the dawn of jet propulsion, Don Patry did it all -- a true icon in the pioneering days of the Canadian bush pilot." -- Brendan Coyle, Author. "While flying with Patry might have been a hair-raising experience, flying his book from an armchair is pure delight." -- Edmonton Journal, Sunday 10th December.
{
118pp,
150x220mm,
September 2006;
PB,
£14.99,
1897126077:9781897126073
, Newest Press
} |
 |
ADMIRALS
: Canada's Senior Naval Leadership in the Twentieth Century
[Michael Whitby, Richard H Gimblett & Peter Haydon]
This book fills an important void in the history of Canada's navy. Those who carry the burden of high command have a critical niche in not only guiding the day-to-day concerns of running an armed service but in ensuring that it is ready to face the challenges of the future. Canada's leading naval historians present analytical articles on the officers who led the navy from its foundation in 1910 to the unification in 1968. Six former Maritime Commanders provide personal reflections on command. The result is a valuable biographical compendium for anyone interested in the history of the Canadian Navy, the Canadian Forces, or military and naval leadership in general.
{
414pp,
155x230mm,
February 2006;
PB,
£12.99,
1550025805:9781550025804
, Dundurn Press
} |
 |
BAYCHIMO
: Arctic Ghost Ship
[Anthony Dalton]
Baychimo is the legendary Hudson's Bay Company ship that survived for years in the Arctic after being abandoned by her crew in 1931. In the 1920s, the crew of Baychimo set up trading posts in eastern Canada, sailed on fur-trading expeditions to Siberia during the turbulent years of the Russian Civil War, and eventually made the dangerous annual voyage around Alaska to Canada's western Arctic coast, shouldering her way through the ice floes to re-supply the HBC's remote trading posts. Anthony Dalton tells the story of the hardy ship and her sometimes irascible captain, Sydney Cornwell, and through them brings to life the larger story of the community of northern traders, hunters and sailors of which Baychimo was a part. But this ship's story had a remarkable twist. When Baychimo was caught in 1931 in an ice floe that refused to let go, her crew expected her to sink at any moment, and abandoned ship. But she was as stubborn as the ice, and she floated away unharmed to begin what would prove to be the longest phase of her seemingly charmed career: for the next four decades she would appear on the horizon at unexpected times and places, always defiantly upright and afloat, becoming the legendary ghost ship of the Arctic.
{
256pp,
140x215mm,
November 2006;
PB,
£13.50,
189497414X:9781894974141
, Heritage House Publishing
} |
 |
DANGEROUS PASSAGE
: Issues in the Arctic
[Gerard Kenney]
Over the five hundred or so years that man searched for an elusive sea passage from Europe to Asia through the North American land mass, dozens of ships were lost and hundreds of mariners died. Eventually, a sea route stretching through the waters of the archipelago and along Canada's mainland Arctic coast was pieced together. But could ships navigate the Northwest Passage to the extent that it could be used as an international shipping route? Two seagoing captains and their ships -- a Norwegian, Roald Amundsen, and a Canadian of Norwegian birth, Henry Asbjorn Larsen -- answered that question in the first half of the 20th century. The first part of the book recounts their successful efforts. The second part addresses the many unsettling environmental and sovereignty issues concerning the future of the Northwest Passage in this time of melting ice caps, glaciers and sea ice in the Arctic.
{
192pp,
155x230mm,
May 2006;
PB,
£17.50,
1897045131:9781897045138
, Natural Heritage Books
} |
 |
FROM THE WHEELHOUSE
: Tugboaters Tell Their Own Stories
[Doreen Armitage]
Doreen Armitage interviewed 16 old-time tugboat captains, engineers and deckhands to assemble this intimate and often hair-raising account of life aboard BC tugs. Tugs are called to emergencies on the water, working with the Coast Guard and fireboats to save lives and retrieve damaged vessels. Storms, fog, riptides and whirlpools, bridges, even other boats operated by inexperienced or careless hands can put a tug and its crew in jeopardy. Beautifully illustrated with archival photos and images from the personal collections of the skippers who appear within its pages, From the Wheelhouse is both a lively, personal look at the history of towboating in BC and an engaging portrait of the famous coastal characters and vessels that have shaped this region's maritime history.
{
182pp,
215x280mm,
October 2006;
PB,
£19.50,
1550173839:9781550173833
, Harbour Publishing
} |
 |
OUR GALLANT DOCTOR
: Enigma & Tragedy -- Surgeon-Lieutenant George Hendry & HMCS Ottawa, 1942
[James Goodwin]
During the Battle of the Atlantic, Dr George Hendry had just finished performing two major surgical operations on board the destroyer HMCS Ottawa when his ship was ambushed by 13 German U-boats. Canadian warships like Ottawa, sinking her in 20 minutes. Utterly exhausted, Dr Hendry was lost along with 113 of his shipmates. George Hendry was a much-loved man, a great university athlete, and a very good doctor. Unfortunately, he was also naive and too trusting. One night in January 1941, he committed a very foolish indiscretion. And he would spend the rest of his tragically short life making amends for this mistake.
{
280pp,
155x230mm,
March 2007;
PB,
£18.00,
1550026879:9781550026870
, Dundurn Press
} |
 |
RIVER QUEEN
: The Amazing Story of Tugboat Titan, Lucille Johnstone
[Paul E Levy]
Rivtow was just a three-boat log-towing operation when Lucille Johnstone came aboard as an unskilled girl Friday in the late 1940s. By the 1980s, Rivtow had taken over its biggest rival to become one of the giants of the marine transportation industry with connections worldwide, and Lucille was the driving force behind its success. As the company grew she worked her way from receptionist to secretary to dispatcher to administrator to CEO and finally, to president. A remarkable feat for a woman in those times, and made even more remarkable in that her unlikely success took place in the male-dominated world of towboating. Lucille Johnstone was as legendary for her kindness and social conscience as she was for her clever negotiating and creative deal making. Because of her selflessness, she unfortunately did not think it necessary to secure her position in the corporation she helped to build, ending up on the outside looking in after a generational shift of ownership. Putting that behind her, Lucille went on with life, this time as a driving force behind Expo 86, the new Vancouver International Airport and St. John Ambulance, among a number of other businesses and charities.
{
272pp,
155x230mm,
October 2006;
HB,
£23.50,
1550173693:9781550173697
, Harbour Publishing
} |
 |
STERNWHEELERS & CANYON CATS
: Whitewater Freighting on the Upper Fraser
[Jack Boudreau]
The story of men who braved the dangerous waterways of the uppper Fraser River to build the GTP Railway. Forbidding canyons, raging rapids and menacing rocks -- this was the daily challenge that faced whitewater men who worked the wild rivers and creeks to bring freight and supplies to northern BC in the years before the Grand Trunk Railway. In particular, the Grand Canyon of British Columbia's Fraser River was infamous for swallowing at least 200 luckless occupants of rafts and small craft between the years 1862-1921. 'Sternwheelers and Canyon Cats' is the story of the 'Canyon Cats' who made their living running the Grand Canyon and other equally dangerous waterways. A total of twelve steamers worked the upper Fraser River during the period 1862-1921 and the dangers faced by these vessels and their steel-nerved captains are legend. It was a perilous existence hauling supplies to the isolated construction camps of the GTP Railroad and in retrospect it seems ironic that these steamers were made obsolete by this same railway upon its completion. 'Sternwheelers and Canyon Cats' is a chronicle of the men whose feats almost defy belief and whose contribution to BC history has gone long unrecognised.
{
256pp,
155x230mm,
October 2006;
PB,
£12.99,
1894759206:9781894759205
, Harbour Publishing (Caitlin Press)
} |
 |
CANADIANS AT TABLE
: Food, Fellowship & Folklore -- A Culinary History of Canada
[Dorothy Duncan]
"Canadians at Table" is an introduction to the diverse culinary history of Canada. We learn about the lessons of survival of the First Nations, the foods that fuelled the fur traders, and the adaptability of the early settlers in their new environment. As communities developed and transportation improved, waves of newcomers arrived, bringing their memories of foods, beverages, and traditions they had known, which were almost impossible to implement in their new homeland. They learned instead to use native plants for many of their needs. Community events and institutions developed to serve religious, social, and economic needs -- from agricultural and temperance societies to Women’s Institutes, from markets and fairs to community meals and celebrations. One New World food, pemmican -- a light, durable, and highly nourishing blend of dried and powdered buffalo, elk, or deer meat that is mixed with dried berries, packed into a leather bag, then sealed with grease -- was introduced by the First Nations to the fur traders coming to Canada. Small amounts of pemmican replaced large amounts of regular food, freeing up precious hunting and food preparation time and allowing more space to carry additional furs and trade goods. From the self-sufficient First Nations and early settlers to the convenience foods of today, Canadians at Table gives us an overview of one of the most unique and fascinating food histories in the world and how it continues to change to serve Canadians from coast to coast.
{
248pp,
155x230mm,
September 2006;
HB,
£18.00,
155002647X:9781550026474
, Dundurn Press
} |
 |
CHRISTMAS WITH MARY COOK
: Favourite Stories & Recipes: 10th Anniversary Edition
[Mary Cook]
A celebrated storyteller, Mary Cook has been delighting both reading and listening audiences for years with her remembrances of growing up on the family farm during the bittersweet years of the 1930s. This is the 10th anniversary edition of a seasonal favourite and offers a collection of Mary's most-requested yuletide stories and recipes. From Pork Tourtières and Jailhouse Beans to The Doll, Letters from School, and December Birthday, this special edition is sure to warm winter hearts everywhere.
{
120pp,
205x205mm,
February 2007;
PB,
£11.99,
0921165889:9780921165880
, Creative Bound Inc.
} |
 |
COOKING UNDER THE ARCH
: Cherished Recipes & Gardening Tips from the Rigorous High Country of Alberta's Chinook Zone
[Millarville Horticultural Club]
The Millarville Horticultural Club was formed in 1976 and continues to provide mutual support and inspiration for its many members who garden, and cook, in the challenging Chinook Zone. Its first book, Gardening Under the Arch, was recently re-released by TouchWood Editions to local acclaim. Down-to-earth, easy-to-prepare, inexpensive recipes for home cooking are at the heart of this cookbook inspired by foods from the garden. Ingredients can be purchased locally through farmers' markets (or grocery stores), but if you want to grow your own, this book tells you how. Written by the same people who brought you Gardening Under the Arch, this cookbook is about more than fruits and vegetables. It's about soups, salads, casseroles, desserts, beverages, wines, vinegars, wild fruits, jellies and preserves, sauces, pickles, chutney and relishes, toasted seeds, edible flowers, sauerkraut, rosehips, baby food and more. Recipes are interspersed with informative essays about growing vegetables, transplanting, raised beds, herbs, fruit, community gardens and farmers' markets. If you've ever wondered how to make your aunt's great Crabapple Pie or Sugar Snap Omelette, or had a craving for Grandma's Rosy Rhubarb Punch or Ripe Tomato Chutney, this is the book for you.
{
160pp,
155x230mm,
May 2007;
PB,
£13.50,
1894898478:9781894898478
, Heritage House Publishing (TouchWood Editions)
} |
 |
FIRE HALL COOKING WITH JEFF THE CHEF
: Surefire Recipes to Feed Your Crew
[Jeff Derraugh]
As entertaining as it is practical, 'Fire Hall Cooking with Jeff the Chef' features tried-and-true recipes from some of the country's greatest unheralded chefs -- fire-fighters. This eclectic collection grew from veteran fire-fighter Jeff Derraugh's experience cooking for ravenous fire crews, who demand that each meal be deliciously decadent, amply portioned and reasonably priced. Sprinkled throughout are cooking tips and observations culled from 17 years of working -- and cooking -- alongside fire-fighters. With recipes for Rip Roarin' Risotto, Fred Flintstone BBQ'd Beef Ribs, Funky Fire Hall Chili, Southwest Sweet Potato Fries, Jamaican Jerk Pork Chops with Fresh Mango Salsa, Tequila Lime Chicken, Amaretto Cheesecake with Kahlua topping and a whole lot more, Fire Hall Cooking will help you prepare delicious fare for every time of day and every kind of food hankering.
{
240pp,
155x230mm,
June 2007;
PB,
£11.99,
1894898567:9781894898560
, Heritage House Publishing (TouchWood Editions)
} |
 |
FOOD THAT REALLY SCHMECKS
: Mennonite Country Cooking
[Edna Staebler]
Foreword by Wayson Choy with an introduction by Rose Murray. In the 1960s, Edna Staebler moved in with an Old Order Mennonite family to absorb their oral history and learn about Mennonite culture and cooking. From this fieldwork came the cookbook "Food That Really Schmecks". Originally published in 1968, Schmecks instantly became a classic, selling tens of thousands of copies. Interspersed with practical and memorable recipes are Staebler's stories and anecdotes about cooking, Mennonites, her family, and Waterloo Region. Described by Edith Fowke as folklore literature, Staebler's cookbooks have earned her national acclaim.
{
334pp,
155x230mm,
October 2006;
PB,
£19.50,
0889205213:9780889205215
, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
} |
 |
GARDENING UNDER THE ARCH
: Homespun Hints & Money-Saving Tips from the Rigorous High Country of Alberta's Chinook Zone
[Millarville Horticultural Club]
First released in 1982, Gardening Under the Arch has long been hailed as the gardening bible for the challenging chinook region of southwestern Alberta. Now, for the first time since its original publication, this hugely successful book has been revised and updated into a full-colour edition by some of its original contributors and a new group of gardeners. This unique book is truly a work of the heart. Hardly slick, not at all highbrow, Gardening Under the Arch is full of practical, homespun know-how based on the collective wisdom gleaned over years by determined gardeners in the chinook zone. There is knowledge here that can't be found in other books, and there is passion-loads of passion-for the love of gardening and all the special moments it brings. Gardening Under the Arch provides insight and inspiration, from the first sunny day in spring when you start to dig your beds to that cold winter's day when you enjoy a freshly baked pie made with the fruit you have grown.
{
352pp,
155x230mm,
April 2006;
PB,
£17.99,
1894898435:9781894898430
, Heritage House Publishing (TouchWood Editions)
} |
 |
ONE-POT WONDERS
: James Barber's recipes for Land & Sea
[James Barber]
James Barber -- Canada's most famous television chef and author of more than fourteen best-selling cookbooks -- is back with a delicious new book geared toward people who are wet and cold and want dinner in a hurry. Over the years, Barber has whipped up meals while cruising on seiners, yachts and even a wee Davidson dinghy, so he knows first-hand the challenges of cooking on the ocean in a tiny -- or non-existent -- galley. One-Pot Wonders makes gourmet cuisine accessible to the average cook, featuring over one hundred simple recipes for mouth-watering soups and salads, hearty breakfasts, delectable desserts and exquisite one-pot main dishes that can be served for lunch or dinner. Each dish is easy and quick to prepare, uses readily available ingredients and only a few essential kitchen tools. There are also tips on how to stock your galley and many suggestions for recipe substitutions and variations to address diminishing supplies -- a common occurrence at the end of a long trip. From Georgian Salmon Stew to Sweet Pear Omelette to Shrimp and Cucumber Curry, these recipes will buoy your spirits and keep you afloat! So come aboard: let James Barber share his passion for good |
