Douglas Mcintyre imprint: 96 books
by Farley Mowat
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The follow-up to And No Birds Sang, Farley Mowat’s memoir My Father’s Son charts the course of a family relationship in the midst of extreme trial. Taking place during Mowat’s years in the Italian Campaign, the memoir is mostly told through original letters between Mowat and his mother, Helen,...
Darwin's Bastards
Astounding Tales from Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
These 23 stories take us on a twisted fun ride into some future times and parallel universes where characters as diverse as a one-legged International Actuarial Forensics specialist, a pharmaceutical guinea pig, and a far-sighted fetus engage in their own games of the survival of the fittest. From...
Voices of British Columbia
Stories from Our Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Between 1959 and 1966, the late CBC Radio journalist Imbert Orchard travelled across British Columbia with recording engineer Ian Stephen interviewing nearly a thousand of the province’s pioneers. The resulting collection - 2,700 hours of audiotapes describing both extraordinary events and everyday...
Emily Carr and Her Dogs
Flirt, Punk, and Loo
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
This delightful book combines 25 stories about dogs with 16 playful drawings by famous Canadian writer, artist, and animal lover Emily Carr. She tells of her joys and tribulations raising Old English sheepdogs, from her decision to start a kennel to the sad day when she had to close it. With each...
Arthur Erickson
An Architect's Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Arthur Erickson, Canada's pre-eminent philosopher architect, was renowned internationally for his innovative approach to landscape, his genius for spatial composition, and his epic vision of architecture for people. Among his most celebrated large-scale works are three that helped to define Vancouver's...
Patriot Hearts
Inside the Olympics That Changed a Country
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
A riveting behind-the-scenes account of the transformative 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games-an extraordinary story of visionary leadership, love of country and the ability to dream boldly.
When John Furlong emigrated from Ireland in 1974, the customs officer greeted him with Welcome...
The Lesser Blessed
20th Anniversary Special Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2016
Over 10,000 copies sold in Canada! The 20th-anniversary edition of Richard Van Camp’s best-selling coming-of-age story, with a new introduction and story by the author
Larry is a Dogrib Indian growing up in the small northern town of Fort Simmer. His tongue, his hallucinations and his fantasies...
Take Us to Your Chief
And Other Stories: Classic Science-Fiction with a Contemporary First Nations Outlook
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
A forgotten Haudenosaunee social song beams into the cosmos like a homing beacon for interstellar visitors. A computer learns to feel sadness and grief from the history of atrocities committed against First Nations. A young Native man discovers the secret to time travel in ancient petroglyphs. Drawing...
by Richard Wagamese
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
One Native Life is a look back down the road Richard Wagamese has traveled - from childhood abuse to adult alcoholism - in reclaiming his identity. It’s about what he has learned as a human being, a man, and an Ojibway in his 52 years on Earth. Whether he’s writing about playing baseball, running...
Defiant Spirits
The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
Beginning in 1912, Defiant Spirits traces the artistic development of Tom Thomson and the future members of the Group of Seven, Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, and Frederick Varley, over a dozen years in Canadian history. Working...
Exploring Vancouver
The Architectural Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Vancouver's streetscapes and neighbourhoods have changed drastically in recent years. New buildings representing current architectural trends are mixing with and often replacing those of earlier eras and tastes, and a maturing architectrual melange is emerging. This book invites the reader to explore...
Growing Pains
The Autobiography of Emily Carr
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
This autobiography by Emily has been called "probably the finest... in a literary sense, ever written in Canada."
Completed just before Emily Carr died in 1945, Growing Pains tells the story of Carr’s life, beginning with her girlhood in pioneer Victoria and going on to her training...
Pause
An Emily Carr Sketch Book
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
While studying art in London, Emily Carr seriously undermined her health and was sent to a sanatorium for a complete rest cure. Bridling at the hospital’s rules, which prohibited excitement of any kind, the always rebellious Carr proceeded to make friends, raise birds, and cause trouble. In words...
Embers
One Ojibway's Meditations
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2016
"Life sometimes is hard. There are challenges. There are difficulties. There is pain. As a younger man I sought to avoid them and only ever caused myself more of the same. These days I choose to face life head on-and I have become a comet. I arc across the sky of my life and the harder times...