Nature & Environment from Vancouver Bookseller

The Stikine is a 380-mile river running through wilderness from northwestern British Columbia to southeast Alaska. It is one of the last truly wild rivers in BC (it is top-grade difficulty for kayaking); it drains a rugged, pristine area east of the Coast Mountains, cutting a fast-flowing course through the mountains in deep glacier-lined gorges to empty into Eastern Passage.… Read more

This is a first edition (1991) of Seton Gordon: The Life and Times of a Highland Gentleman, by the Canadian author Raymond Eagle. (It's an actual first edition: the American editions dated 1992 also state first editions.) Seton Gordon CBE (1886-1977) was a Scottish naturalist, photographer and folklorist. He is famous for his 31 books on the… Read more

Frederick Albert Cook (1865-940) was an American doctor and explorer who, in 1906, claimed that he had reached the peak of Mount McKinley, making him the first to scale North America's highest mountain. He had not. At the time, there were questions, inquiries, and an endless trail of fake photographs, incorrect maps and bribed witnesses. This… Read more

The full title of this book is The Backwoods of Canada: Being the Letters of the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America. It was first published, in the UK, in 1836. This is a facsimile reprint. Catharine Parr Traill (1802-1899) was a successful English writer when she married a… Read more

April 1, 2019. 94 Pages, no label or barcode Cover: Brooklyn or Bust, by Bruce McCall See Table of Contents Scan Condition: Slight crease at stapled edge. Otherwise perfect.

Lake O'Hara, The Secret Heaven in BC's Yoho National Park, in the Canadian Rockies, is a 164-page book of photographs. Each page is its own postcard. There are 2 pages of text; the rest of the book is stunning, frameable color photographs, each one 10 7/8 x 6 1/8". The photographs were taken by the author, who is… Read more

The west coast of Canada has an unusual navy. Since 1911, the wooden ships of the British Columbia Forest Service have sailed the seas and channels of 16,000 mile coastline, and this book tells the story of those ships. It talks about the men, the forests, their jobs and their famous boats. This book was published in… Read more

This is ex-library, but it's a lovely book, in excellent condition. You can easily remove all of the library fittings. In the 1970s, British writer Clare Francis made six ocean voyages, which were documented by the BBC. This is the companion book to that. In addition, it includes essays by experts on specific aspects of the sea, … Read more

Magnificent, Treacherous and Exhilarating, the Fraser is one of the world's great rivers. In this spectacular book, Alan Haig-Brown and Rick Blacklaws share their longtime fascination with all 850 miles of the largest salmon-spawning river on earth, the longest and most powerful un-darnmed river in North America, and one of Canada's most breathtakingly beautiful scenic… Read more

From 1978 to 1981, Time-Life Books published a series called The Seafarers. It was 22 volumes, all written by experts in their fields, on different aspects of maritime history. All are 175-185 pages, all bound in thick black leatherette, all beautifully illustrated with drawings, paintings and photographs. Of the 22, I have 16 left (the list is… Read more

This is a companion book to the Time-Life TV Series Wild, Wild World of Animals. This one is Elephants & Other Land Giants: African and Asiatic Elephants, Hippopotamuses, Giraffes, Rhonoceroses, Big Birds and Giant Reptiles. 128 pages, including loads of photos. Well-reviewed. Never Read but there is an attractive bookplate at the front and some waving to the first few pages. Otherwise… Read more

Canadian Geographic is a high-end magazine published by The Royal Canadian Geographical Society.July/August 2001 92 Pages. See Table of Contents Scan Unread. No Label. Pristine

Canadian Geographic is a high-end magazine published by The Royal Canadian Geographical Society.March/April 2001 100 Pages. See Table of Contents Scan Unread. No Label. Pristine

This is a first edition of The Great Lakes, written by the famed Canadian journalist and historian Pierre Berton (1920-2004). It was published in 1996 and includes hundreds of photographs by the Canadian photographer Andre Gallant. It is a historical overview, paired with brilliant photography showing the diversity of landscapes, species, and seasons. It is colored… Read more

Vanity Fair May 2006 Cover: Julia Roberts, Al Gore, George Clooney, RFK Jr. See Table of Contents Scans 246 Pages Pristine - Unread

The Wind in the Willows is a 1908 children's novel by Scottish novelist Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932). Alternately slow-moving and fast-paced, it focuses on four animals: Mole, Rat (a European water vole), Toad, and Badger, in a pastoral version of Edwardian England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie, and celebrated for its evocation of… Read more

This is the fifth novel from the brilliant Canadian novelist Gail Anderson-Dargatz, published in 2016. It takes place in the Thompson-Shuswap region of British Columbia, specifically around a bend in the river where the salmon run. On one side of the river is a ranch once owned by Eugene Robertson, who came in the gold rush around 1860. On the other… Read more

This is a first edition of Lightly Poached, a 1973 novel written by Lillian Beckwith (1916-2004). Beckwith was English but, in the late 50s, she moved to the Hebrides of Scotland and lived there for 20 years, mainly on the Isle of Skye. She wrote 7 books about her experiences. They're semi-autobiographical, and mostly fiction. They… Read more

The is a first edition from the classics series published by International Collectors Library in 1970. Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest is a 1904 novel by the prolific Anglo-Argentinian writer William Henry Hudson (1841-1922). A failed revolutionary attempt drives the hero of Hudson's novel to seek refuge in the primeval forests of south-western Venezuela. There,… Read more

The most comprehensive and authoritative reference book of its kind, The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea is was first published in 1976 to huge acclaim. It covers every aspect of the seas and the vessels that sail on them, from shipbuilding, yachting, diving, and marine mammals, to tidal power, piracy, and the literature and language of the sea. This… Read more