Greystone Books: 191 books
Risking it All
My Student, My Lover, My Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2004
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In the spring of 2000, Heather Ingram, a 30-year-old high school teacher in a small town on the coast of British Columbia, was convicted of the sexual exploitation of a minor for having an affair with a 17-year-old student. Why would a highly respected and accomplished teacher take such...
White Planet
A Mad Dash through Modern Global Ski Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
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""Brilliant, funny, evocative. Made me want to ski now. Hands down the best ski-travel book ever written. But then, what else would you expect from the master of ski travel?"" -- Jake Bogoch, former editor of SKIER
A fun and informative look at the global ski...
by David Carpenter
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
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""The two greatest things about Carpenter's sterling hunting memoir is how well-informed and precise it is -- positively erudite; but never show-offish or exclusive. The second involves how much this knowing-ness is the natural tropism of the author’s great and generous heart,...
British Columbia
A Natural History of Its Origins, Ecology, and Diversity with a New Look at Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
This revised and expanded edition of an award-winning book not only explores British Columbia’s stunning ecology but also features an increased focus on climate change. With expanded sections on the province’s geological history, updated information on the mountain pine beetle and the future of...
Dirty Kids
Chasing Freedom with America's Nomads
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
"An illuminating and memorable twenty-first-century journey. From this angle, Burning Man looks bourgeois." —Ted Conover, author of Newjack and The Routes of Man
At age twenty-two, writer Chris Urquhart left a life of middle-class comfort to document the lives of these young nomads...
An Intimate Wilderness
Arctic Voices in a Land of Vast Horizons
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
An unforgettable and beautifully illustrated memoir of one man’s journeys in the eastern Arctic over 50 years, and a revealing look into the world of the Inuit.
Arctic researcher, author, and photographer Norman Hallendy’s journey to the far north began in 1958, when many Inuit, who traditionally...
Breakfast at the Exit Café
Travels Through America
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
"Whether it's the sign of a symbiotic marriage or of seasoned writers crafting a seamless travel collage, the narrative in this road trip through America flows as easily as a new car on an empty highway." -- Globe & Mail
Part travelogue, part exploration-a road trip into the reality...
School of Sophisticated Drinking
An Intoxicating History of Seven Spirits
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
“A very entertaining book that deserves a leather armchair, a fine cigar, and a double measure of cognac. ” – Gaz Regan, author of The Joy of Mixology
A detailed and insightful look into the development and sometimes comical past of the world of cocktail recipes and their stories.”...
Trauma Farm
A Rebel History of Rural Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
"Brett's wit and giddy ambivalence makes this account a stretch more provocative than similar rural memoirs, and an altogether compelling read" -- Publishers Weekly
"You can taste the food he describes, feel the cool morning air on naked skin, smell the dogs and feel the mud....
Curious by Nature
One Woman's Exploration of the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Curious by Nature showcases Candace Savage's exploration of the varied ways we relate to wildlife, from our retelling of fairytales about the big, bad wolf to our struggles to find a balance between harvesting trees and allowing grizzly bears the space to roam. Creating a livable future for ourselves...
Tuco
The Parrot, the Others, and a Scattershot World
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
“[Brett’s] writing is so vivid, the observations so telling, that a reader can virtually feel the smooth heft of a collected egg in the palm of a hand or hear the goofy, honking dawn call of the peacock.” —Globe & Mail on Trauma Farm
A raucous biography of a remarkable parrot and...
Passion for This Earth, A
"Writers, Scientists, and Activists Explore Our Relationship with Nature and the Environment"
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Twenty influential writers and scientists contribute personal, practical, and political essays celebrating our planet.
In this powerful collection of original essays, twenty of the world's most influential journalists, writers, scientists, and environmentalists lend their voices to inform and...
Saboteurs
Weibo Ludwig`s War against Big Oil
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2014
Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Literary Non-Fiction and the 2002 Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best True Crime
“A grisly catalogue of the effects of hydrogen sulphide and flaring . . . Nikiforuk provides an eloquent and persuasive voice for all downwinders.”...
1000 Lashes
Because I Say What I Think
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
"Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear, mild, nuanced, but clear. His examination of his culture is perceptive and rigorous. Of course he must be saved from the dreadful sentence against him and the appalling conditions of his imprisonment. But he must also be read, so that...