As with movies that start gritty and move to hope or start sunlit and move to grim, this book has an arc starting quiet and small and becoming more vivid and joyful as it progresses, as if affirming to live every day.
As he wanders, “with thoughts of a hot Tim Hortons coffee…dancing in his head,” he reflects on everything from the seasons to the birds, from Hurricane Juan to Shakespeare By The Sea, from the battlements and the long-horned beetle to “the most common mammal in the park…the Canis lupus familiaris, the domesticated dog”.
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.
I live in the Lower Mainland of BC. When I go to the “Baja” Sunshine Coast, I take a 40ish minute car ferry ride from the Horseshoe Bay terminal. When we pass by Soames Hill, somewhat resembling the shape of Homer Simpson’s belly if lying down, I know it’s time to ditch the outdoor view …
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.
An unswerving look at issues related to biodiversity in Canada.
Written by someone who clearly respects and appreciates the natural world, The Road to Appledore might well appeal to a broad range of people.
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.
Explore the natural glory of hot springs with the updated 4th edition of Hot Springs of Western Canada.
Originally published in 2014, In the Slender Margin was enthusiastically received and applauded for its respectful sensitivity in dealing with a subject that is still, to many, an avoidable topic of conversation: death and dying. Using her 20+ years’ experience working as a palliative care counsellor in a hospice as a springboard for exploration, Joseph probes our collective knowledge of that final life experience that we all must face.
An all-new, richly illustrated easy-to-use guide that with the six identifying features of each of the most common birds on the east coast.
Missen’s descriptions of her wilderness experiences are authentic and sometimes even poetic . . . She also evokes a strong sense of mood and place.
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