Rocky Mountain Books: 144 books
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...
Through Dust and Darkness
A Motorcycle Journey of Fear and Faith in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Jeremy Kroeker is a Mennonite with a motorcycle. He doesn’t have a funny beard and he’s never even driven a buggy, but his family hails from the same Mennonite community that Miriam Toews fictionalized in A Complicated Kindness. From childhood through college, Kroeker attended Christian schools...
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...
by Glynnis Hood
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Beavers are the great comeback story—a keystone species that survived ice ages, major droughts, the fur trade, urbanization and near extinction. Their ability to create and maintain aquatic habitats has endeared them to conservationists, but puts the beavers at odds with urban and industrial expansion....
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...
Little Black Lies
Corporate and Political Spin in the Global War for Oil
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Beginning in 1967 and for just over 30 years, the oil industry toiled in the relative obscurity of Northern Alberta as machines peeled away earth and boreal forest to exhume what has now become one of humanity’s most precious and contentious resources: bitumen. As the years passed, the bitumen mines...
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 Mike Nash
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Prince George-based outdoors expert, Mike Nash, shares what he has learned about outdoor safety and survival during more than thirty years of year-round treks into the rugged backcountry of western Canada. This dynamic and up-to-date handbook discusses ways to prepare for and deal with any number...
Bad Medicine: A Judge's Struggle for Justice in a First Nations Community
A Judge's Struggle for Justice in a First Nations Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Early in his career, Judge John Reilly did everything by the book. His jurisdiction included a First Nations community plagued by suicide, addiction, poverty, violence and corruption. He steadily handed out prison sentences with little regard for long-term consequences and even less knowledge as to...
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...