Rmb Rocky Mountain Books: 92 books
Prairie Gothic
Photographs by George Webber
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
George Webber’s poignant black-and-white photographs transport us into the forgotten, unknowable communities of the Canadian prairies. Throughout the journey, we’re confronted by the mysterious particulars of life, death, landscape and faith. Intimate portraits and the hard facts of the place...
by Alan Mallory
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
A fast-paced and engaging story that takes the reader on a remarkable family journey from the flatlands of suburbia to the top of the world.
Climbing Mount Everest is one of humanity’s greatest feats of physical, emotional and psychological endurance. In 2008 Alan Mallory and his family took...
Marathon Quest
Revised & Updated
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
An engaging and incredible true story detailing the early days of Martin Parnell's dream to share the healing power of sport with disadvantaged children around the world.
In 2005, during a four-month cycling trip through Africa, Martin Parnell was struck by the power of sport and its ability...
The Climate Nexus
Water, Food, Energy and Biodiversity in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Secure supplies of water, food and energy are essential to human dignity and well-being around the globe. In turn, the vitality of these three depends on a thriving biodiversity supported by healthy ecosystems. The complex interdependence among these four factors is known as the Nexus.
Global...
The Bold and Cold
A History of 25 Classic Climbs in the Canadian Rockies
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Perfect for the armchair traveller or devoted mountaineer, this book grabs the reader by the boots and takes them along on the best climbs to be found in the heart of the Canadian Rockies.
Over the past 100 years, climbers have been pushing standards in the Canadian Rockies. From long alpine...
Spirit Builders
Charles Catto, Frontiers Foundation and the Struggle to End Indigenous Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The inspiring story of how one organization has tried to alleviate the struggles faced by First Nations peoples in Canada by building houses and developing livable communities for those in desperate need.
The people who were living here on Turtle Island (North America) before us have been pushed...
The Real Thing
The Natural History of Ian McTaggart Cowan
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
The Real Thing is the first official biography of Ian McTaggart Cowan (1910–2010), the “father of Canadian ecology.” Authorized by his family and with the research support and participation of the University of Victoria Libraries, Briony Penn provides an unprecedented and accessible window into...
Bad Judgment
The Myth of First Nations Equality and Judicial Independence in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
During his 33 years as a circuit judge for the Provincial Court of Alberta, John Reilly became interested in aboriginal justice and the failure of the “white” legal system to deliver justice for Aboriginal people. He recognized the harm caused to Native people by Canadian colonialism and the failure...
by Caroline Fox
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
An illustrated narrative that interweaves the shifting seasons of the Northwest Coast with the experiences of a conservation biologist surveying thousands of kilometres of open ocean in order to uncover the complex relationships between humans, marine birds and the realities of contemporary biodiversity.
At...
June Mickle
One Woman’s Life in the Foothills and Mountains of Western Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
June’s strength of character was forged by living in the wilderness west of Turner Valley as a young girl with her mother and her stepfather, Tip Johnson, a renowned cowboy and horse trainer. She learned early to live in harmony with her environment and became a strongly determined woman capable...
by David Chaundy-Smart
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
David Chaundy-Smart took it as a compliment when his high school vice-principal told him he was wasting his youth by climbing. Here, he tells the story of how he and his brother, Reg, spent the last years of the 1970s fighting suburban boredom to become, in the words of renowned climbing historian...
by Pam Asheton
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Everything you need to know to explore on horseback. Packed with interpretive notes on wildlife, plants, geology, local history and horse language, this book tells you where to go, how to get there and what to do to have a successful one-day ride.
At Home in Nature
A Life of Unknown Mountains and Deep Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
The compelling story of one family’s life among the rugged landscapes of British Columbia's Coast Mountains, converting youthful ideals, raw land and a passion for the outdoors into a practical off-grid homestead.
Rob Wood grew up in a village on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors, where he...
Storm Warning
Water and Climate Security in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
Human beings and industrial-based society are changing the composition of our planet’s atmosphere and causing it to warm at an unnatural and oftentimes astonishingly rapid rate. Much of that warmth is being absorbed by water, which as a result is moving through the global hydrological cycle faster...