Gifts < $50

Pocket Guide Medicinal Plants

Alpine Books

$11.95 CAD

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This guide describes how to use common wild plants to help treat injuries and backcountry maladies. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 80 familiar species...

Pocket Guide Mushrooms (N. American Species)

Alpine Books

$11.95 CAD

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When foraging for wild mushrooms, it is critical to be able to positively identify edible and poisonous species. Mushrooms is your guide to familiar, widespread...

Pocket Guide Bugs and Slugs

Alpine Books

$11.95 CAD

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The adorable ladybug is one of hundreds of species of invertebrates found in and around your home. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar...

Pocket Guide Rocky Mountain Birds

Alpine Books

$9.95 CAD

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Stretching from Alaska to New Mexico, the varied habitats of the Rockies support hundreds of permanent and migratory bird species. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights...

Pocket Guide Weather

Alpine Books

$11.95 CAD – Sold Out

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Waterford's guide to Weather is the ideal, pocket-sized folding guide to clouds, storms and weather patterns. A must-have reference for novice meteorologists, this guide teaches...

Pocket Guide Rocky Mountain Trees & Wildflowers

Alpine Books

$11.95 CAD

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The delicate glacier lily and alpine forget-me-not are just a couple of the thousands of species growing in the diverse ecosystems found throughout Rockies. This...

Pocket Guide Western Backyard Birds

Alpine Books

$9.95 CAD

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Western Backyard Birds is the ideal portable guide for bird lovers and nature enthusiasts living in the western USA (west of the 100th Meridian). This...

Quadrivium

Alpine Books

$35.00 CAD – Sold Out

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The quadrivium-the classical curriculum-comprises the four liberal arts of number, geometry, music, and cosmology. It was studied from antiquity to the Renaissance as a way...

Rumi The Book Of Love

Alpine Books

$21.00 CAD – Sold Out

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Now in paperback, this is the definitive collection of America′s bestselling poet Rumi′s finest poems of love and lovers. In Coleman Barks′ delightful and wise...

Canadian Rockies Geology Road Tours

Alpine Books

$29.95 CAD

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Canadian Rockies Geology Road Tours is the complete roadside guide to:Fossils, formations, folds and faults presented in plain English!- Covers all major Canadian Rockies Highways-...

I Heard God Laughing

Alpine Books

$27.00 CAD

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From bestselling poet Daniel Ladinsky, a rich collection that brings the great Sufi poet Hafiz to Western readersTo Persians, the poems of Hafiz are not...

Read This If You Want to be Great at Drawing

Alpine Books

$28.99 CAD

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This book demystifies the art and practice of drawing. Through fifty drawings by great masters past and present, the techniques and ideas behind their master...

Pax

Alpine Books

$12.99 CAD – Sold Out

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New York Times Bestseller * An Amazon Best Book of the Year * National Book Award Longlist Finally in paperback! This handsome edition features French flaps.From bestselling and award-winning author Sara Pennypacker...

Tuck Everlasting

Alpine Books

$11.50 CAD

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The classic novel about a young girl who stumbles upon a family's stunning secretWhat if you could live forever?Is eternal life a blessing or a...

Let Us Compare Mythologies

Alpine Books

$18.95 CAD – Sold Out

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Published in 1956 to immediate acclaim, Leonard Cohen’s first published book contains poems written between the ages of fifteen and twenty. Now new generations of...

How to Overcome Your Childhood

Alpine Books

$26.50 CAD

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A guide to breaking free from the enduring, and sometimes damaging, behavioral patterns learned in childhood.When trying to deal with our current troubles and anxieties,...

Ask the Very Beasts

Marilyn Geddes

$19.95 CAD

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ASK THE VERY BEASTS: Words of Wisdom & Comfort from Unexpected Sources, is an inspired collection of magical conversations, with animals—and also some unexpected sources—that...

Journey On: Our Animal Companions Guide us Through the Circle of Life

Marilyn Geddes

$24.95 CAD

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Beauty: The Invisible Embrace

Alpine Books

$21.99 CAD – Sold Out

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The author of Anam Cara describes, in his unique style, rediscovering the true sources of compassion, serenity, and hope in our livesIn this eagerly awaited...

Pocket Guide the Moon

Alpine Books

$9.95 CAD

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The brightest and largest object in the night sky, the Moon is about 1/4 the diameter of Earth and is approximately 240,000 miles (385,000 km)...

Two Trees Make a Forest

Alpine Books

$24.95 CAD

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WINNER of the 2020 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Non-Fiction PrizeOne of The Globe and Mail’s “100 favourite books of 2020”On CBC’s list of “the best Canadian nonfiction of 2020”An...

Highway of Tears

Alpine Books

$21.00 CAD – Sold Out

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A searing and revelatory account of the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls of Highway 16, and an indictment of the society that failed...

The Hobbit

Alpine Books

$12.99 CAD

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The Hobbit is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of dragon-guarded gold. A reluctant partner in this perilous...

Hatchet

Alpine Books

$11.99 CAD – Sold Out

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This award-winning contemporary classic is the survival story with which all others are compared—and a page-turning, heart-stopping adventure, recipient of the Newbery Honor. Hatchet has also been...

The Hanging of Angelique

Alpine Books

$19.99 CAD

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Writer, historian and poet Afua Cooper tells the astonishing story of Marie-Joseph Angélique, a slave woman convicted of starting a fire that destroyed a large...

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Alpine Books

$25.99 CAD

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The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age.In...

Coyote Tales

Alpine Books

$16.95 CAD

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Two tales, set in a time “when animals and human beings still talked to each other,” display Thomas King’s cheeky humor and master storytelling skills....

Being Caribou

Alpine Books

$24.99 CAD – Sold Out

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Since time immemorial, the Porcupine caribou herd has ranged the Arctic in a 2,800-mile annual trek between its winter feeding grounds inland and its summer...

Golden Spruce

Alpine Books

$23.00 CAD

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The Golden Spruce is the story of a glorious natural wonder, the man who destroyed it, and the fascinating, troubling context in which his act took...

Gifts of Reading

Alpine Books

$4.99 CAD

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From the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS - an essay on the joy of reading, for anyone who has ever loved a bookEvery...

Genius of Birds

Alpine Books

$25.99 CAD

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An award-winning science writer tours the globe to reveal what makes birds capable of such extraordinary feats of mental prowess Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According...

Gathering Moss

Alpine Books

$23.95 CAD

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Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a commonbut largely unnoticed element of the natural world. GatheringMoss is a beautifully written mix of science...

For Joshua

Alpine Books

$21.00 CAD

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The heartfelt memoir from one of Canada's most beloved writers.Staring the modern world in the eye, Richard Wagamese confronts its snares and perils. He sees...

First Peoples in Canada

Alpine Books

$29.95 CAD

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Since Native Peoples and Cultures of Canada was first published in 1988, its two editions have sold some 30,000 copies, and it is widely used...

Felicity

Alpine Books

$23.00 CAD

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Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems"If I have any secret stash of poems, anywhere, it might...

Blackfoot Ways of Knowing

Alpine Books

$34.95 CAD – Sold Out

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Blackfoot Ways of Knowing:The Worldview of the Siksikaitsitapi is a journey into the heart and soul of Blackfoot culture. In sharing her personal story of...

Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek (Marty)

Alpine Books

$21.00 CAD – Sold Out

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In describing the true events surrounding a series of frightening bear attacks in l980, a bestselling nature/adventure author explores our relationship with the great grizzly.Many...

Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Alpine Books

$27.00 CAD – Sold Out

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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed...

Epic Wanderer

Alpine Books

$22.95 CAD

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Popular historian D’Arcy Jenish recreates the adventure and sacrifice of mapmaker David Thompson’s fascinating life in the wilderness of North America.Epic Wanderer, the first full-length...

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures

Alpine Books

$27.99 CAD

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“Merlin Sheldrake’s marvelous tour of these diverse and extraordinary life forms is eye-opening on why humans should consider fungi among the greatest of earth’s marvels. . ....

Elijah of Buxton

Alpine Books

$9.99 CAD

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Master storyteller Christopher Paul Curtis's Newbery Honor novel, featuring his trademark humor and unique narrative voice, is now part of the Scholastic Gold line!Elijah of...

Dream Work

Alpine Books

$27.95 CAD

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Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver’s American Primitive, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in...

Draw and Be Happy

Alpine Books

$29.95 CAD

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Drawing makes you happy! This boldly illustrated handbook offers easy-to-follow drawing exercises—some thought-provoking, some meditative, all fun—inspired by art-therapy practices. Each page features an activity...

Dog Songs

Alpine Books

$23.00 CAD

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“The popularity of [Dog Songs] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming.” —The Boston Globe Mary Oliver’s Dog Songs is a celebration of the...

The Consolations of Philosophy

Alpine Books

$24.00 CAD

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From the internationally heralded author of How Proust Can Change Your Life comes this remarkable new book that presents the wisdom of some of the greatest thinkers...

Common as Air: Revolution

Alpine Books

$31.50 CAD

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Common as Air offers a stirring defense of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have inherited from the past and continue...

To Bless the Space Between Us

Alpine Books

$39.00 CAD

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From the author of the bestselling Anam Cara comes a beautiful collection of blessings to help readers through both the everyday and the extraordinary events of their...

Landmarks

Alpine Books

$24.00 CAD

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From Robert Macfarlane, the acclaimed author of The Old Ways and Underland—a celebration of the language of landscape and the power of words to shape our sense of...