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Forty-year-old Michael Saunders abandons his upscale lifestyle and shady consulting business for the wilds of northern Ontario when he inherits a run-down tourist lodge. In the course of renovating his boyhood home, he contends with wealthy mobsters, a series of natural disasters, and his growing desire for a stubbornly independent woman. Jake MacDonald's love of the wilderness and off-center sense of humour make thiscontemporary chronicle of ...

While spending the summer trying to deal with her parent's divorce, Juliana, with the help of her Ojibway friend, uncovers an ancient secret that helps her reconcile with her father and, at the same time, acquire a new appreciation for the dangerous beauty of Canada's north country.

Award-winning writer MacDonald examines the history and behavior of the three species of North American bears: grizzlies, black bears, and polar bears. Part memoir and part natural history, "In Bear Country" is MacDonald's compelling meditation on bears and the people who live alongside them.

Rick Hansen captured the attention of the world when he circled the world in his wheelchair from 1985 - 1987 to inspire a more accessible world. This book commemorates the Man in Motion tour and celebrates the removal of barriers for people with disabilities and funds raised for spinal cord injury research, in the 30 years since the tour. In the U.S. Rick Hansen's Man in Motion tour went through Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Caroli...

In Casting Quiet Waters, some of North America's most respected literary writers take us on a fishing trip and use that as an opportunity to explore issues of the human condition. A little more than five centuries ago an odd English nun named Dame Juliana Berners ("The Prioress of St. Albans") wrote the first book about fishing. Her obscure but legendary tome, a Treatysse of Fyshynge wyth an Angle, is as much a work of philosophy as a how-to m...

Combining the beautiful original photography of Tom Thomson and Dave Reede with hundreds of rarely-seen archival photographs, The Laketakes us on a stunning visual tour of the cottage country of Manitoba. This illustrated history looks at the roots of our watery obsession and investigates the cultural, social and regional implications of each of the different lake areas in Manitoba's exceedingly diverse geography. A wide range of authors - inc...