Ken Wilson’s Walking the Bypass is a redemptive journey through some of the least redeeming landscapes an urban walker might visit. Part of what makes the book compelling is how well its style matches its subject.
The title of Danielle Deveraux’s book The Chrome Chair comes from a quote the poet heard at the Newfoundland and Labrador Historical Society Symposium in 2003:
“We were promised a seat at the table of nations: what we got was a chrome chair” (5).
This book gives hikers concise one-page summaries of each loop, including maps, technical information about trail requirements, entrances and exits, interesting plants and animals to look for along the way. The accompanying text offers a well-researched recounting of the history, present circumstances and possible futures of the snake spine of land that rises through South-Central Ontario and is the Niagara Escarpment and of the Bruce Trail that follows it.
Laura Trethewey’s The Imperilled Ocean: Human Stories from a Changing Sea is the perfect blend of entertainment and education.
When I arrived, a tourist in Vancouver twenty years ago, it was apparent almost immediately how incredibly walkable the city is.
In this photo memoir, with Foreword by Klaus’ widow, Martha Hochheim, Sarah Hodges-Kolinsynyk and David Babb assemble a collection of photographs commemorating the life and career of Dr. Hochheim. It is a love letter to our planet’s north and south poles, and an homage to a man whose life ended tragically during his last excursion. Klaus died in a helicopter crash in 2013, working in his beloved Arctic — land of the ice.
J. Duane Sept’s Beachcomber’s Guide provides a well-organized and comprehensive list which identifies many of the strange organisms I encountered that day. Those weird little black beatles crawling about as I lifted up rocks to unblock the sand to sea beeline of a juvenile Norther Kelp Crab? Oregon Pill Bug.
Part poet, philosopher, scientist, and artist – Gary brings to mind the acronym STEAM.. when academia finally realized the importance of art to the scientific realm. He is definitely science and art in a wonderful blend.
Water is a basic human right. In 2024, in Canada, there are First Nations Communities that have been living under Boil Water Advisories for up to 28 years.
An unswerving look at issues related to biodiversity in Canada.
Author Karen Pinchin has given us a gift. It is her perfectly paced, exquisitely written work of creative nonfiction.
Some of my musings of late have been inspired by this rather practical little book which reminds us that flowers aren’t only there to be beautiful. Many of them offer health benefits and — best of all, as far as the lazy gardener in me insists — the flowers in these pages, perennials, keep coming up on their own, year after year.
In Hazard, Home, Christine Lowther offers 52 poems about the natural world and our relationship with it.
If you’re like me and you highlight passages that really resonate with you as you read, be sure to buy a value pack of highlighters for John Pabon’s excellent book, The Great Greenwashing. Part One covers what greenwashing is with fairly broad strokes, over the course of three chapters, and explains what will be covered …
Explore the natural glory of hot springs with the updated 4th edition of Hot Springs of Western Canada.
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