When Nathalie Chambers and her husband, David, first took over Madrona Farm, 27 acres on southern Vancouver Island with a deep history, they never thought their small-scale agricultural business would blossom into an international political act. As pressures from heirs, land dev…
Beginning in 1946, Elizabeth Hawley worked for Fortune magazine as a researcher. Shortly thereafter, she left both her job and the United States itself to travel the world, and thus began her lifelong attraction to the exotic and remote sovereign state of Nepal. In the years tha…
Fear of bears seems almost to be part of what it is to be human. Our species emerged out of the depths of time into a world already populated by these great carnivores. Before we mastered iron and later developed firearms, we had few defences against bears?only watchful caution …
Salmon: A Scientific Memoir investigates a narrative that is important to the identity of the Pacific Northwest Coast? the salmon as an iconic species. Traditionally it?s been a narrative that is overwhelmingly about conflict. But is that always necessarily the case? The story f…
"Having sold more than 40,000 copies of previous editions, this authoritative climbing guide has been completely revised, updated and redesigned for a whole new generation of mountaineers. Armed with first-hand information, Alan Kane describes over 175 scrambles in a clear, conc…