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First Nations
Salmon
The First Nations of British
Columbia, Third Edition
A Scientific Memoir
An Anthropological Overview
Jude Isabella
Robert J. Muckle
Rocky Mountain
Books
$20.00 PA
Greystone Books
$34.95 PA
Salmon investigates a narrative that is
important to the identity of the Pacific
Northwest Coast—the salmon as an iconic
species. It also tells the story of scientists
gathering data and how their work echoes
that of coastal indigenous people who have
harvested salmon since the end of the last
ice age.
UBC Press
$27.95 PA
This authoritative overview of BC’s First
Nations peoples and cultures covers the
history, diversity, and complexity of First
Nations to provide a context for contemporary
concerns and initiatives. This latest edition of
the classic work has been fully revised, with
new chapters added and arguments reframed
in light of current developments.
British Columbia
Knitting Stories
A Natural History of its Origins, Ecology, and
Diversity with a New Look at Climate Change
Personal Essays and Seven Coast
Salish-inspired Knitting Patterns
Richard Cannings and Sydney Cannings
Sylvia Olsen
An award-winning guide to the natural history
of Canada’s most ecologically diverse province
that highlights the effects of climate change
and explores the future of BC’s biodiversity.
Master storyteller, historian, expert knitter,
and Cowichan sweater expert Sylvia Olsen
spent fifteen years buying and selling
Cowichan sweaters in a shop behind her home
on the Tsartlip Reserve. Her essay collection
is both personal and political, historical and
practical. Includes seven stunning Coast
Salish-inspired knitting patterns.
Sono Nis Press
$28.95 PA
The Trees of Calan Gray
Orca Chief
Danial Neil
Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd,
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illustrations by Roy Henry Vickers
Oolichan Books
$19.95 PA
Calan Gray talks to trees. They speak back
to him. Not in words, exactly; he hears the
language of trees. It is 1964, and the world
is a harsh place for those who are different.
Calan struggles to understand a worldview in
which an intimate relationship with the land is
something to value, not denigrate.
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Harbour Publishing
$19.95 HC
Orca Chief is the third in a series of
bestselling Northwest Coast legends featuring
brilliant illustrations by Roy Henry Vickers.
In this captivating tale, the great Orca Chief
compassionately teaches people on the coast
how to treat the ocean’s resources in
a sustainable way.
We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Books Fund (CBF) for this project.
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green living
stories
children
The Flour Peddler
That Went by Fast
A Global Journey into Local Food from
Canada to South Sudan
My First Hundred Years
Dolphin SOS
Roy Miki and Slavia Miki, illustrations by Julie Flett
Frank White
Chris Hergesheimer and Josh Hergesheimer
Caitlin Press
$24.95 PA
Part grain-chain analysis, part bare-all
exposé, The Flour Peddler explores the
trends and issues of local food systems and
the challenges and power of alternative food
movements. It is also a gripping adventure,
from broken-down market vans, fraudulent
bus tickets and hungry bears to a Russian
helicopter, an attempted coup and a heartwrenching homecoming.
Harbour Publishing
$32.95 HC
Greening Your Home
Successful Eco-Renovation Strategies
Fascinating and frequently hilarious, this
memoir written by centenarian Frank White
sifts through sixty years of Frank White’s
many adventures as a pioneer truck driver,
boat builder, excavating contractor, garage
mechanic, camp owner and husband to the
sophisticated and well-connected New Yorker
writer Edith Iglauer.
Tradewind Books
$17.95 HC
Based on true events, Dolphin SOS recounts
the story of three dolphins trapped in an icecovered cove on the coast of Newfoundland.
After the government fails to provide
assistance, some young boys take matters
into their owns hands in order to save the
distressed dolphins.
I, Bartleby
Jessie’s Island Meredith Quartermain
Sheryl McFarlane, illustrations by Sheena Lott
In these quirky, imaginative stories about
writing and writers, Bartleby, scrivener (a.k.a.
Quartermain), goes her stubborn way haunted
by Pauline Johnson, Malcolm Lowry, Robin
Blaser, Daphne Marlatt, and other forebears.
Who is writing whom, these stories ask in
their musing reflections—the writer or the
written? The thinker or the calligrapher?
A lyrical celebration of island life. This
reissue of Jessie’s Island, which was originally
published over twenty years ago, will
introduce a whole new generation of children
to the joy of unstructured play and the
pleasures to be found in the natural world.
Thomas Teuwen and Laura Lynn Parker
Self-Counsel Press
$12.95 PA
We all want a more environmentally smart
home, but many of us worry it will cost too
much, be too difficult to fix or maintain,
and not worth the bother. Not so. This
book identifies the practical path to a more
sustainable household.
Talonbooks
$14.95 PA
The Urban Homesteading Cookbook
Vancouver Confidential Forage, Farm, Ferment and Feast for
a Better World
John Belshaw, Editor
Douglas & McIntyre
$26.95 PA
Taan’s Moons
A Haida Moon Story
Alison Gear, illustrations by Kiki van der Heiden
Michelle Catherine Nelson, photos by Alison Page
In this beautifully illustrated cookbook
featuring 70 recipes, Nelson explores the
world of foraging wild urban edibles, eating
invasive species, keeping micro-livestock,
growing vegetables in pots, and preserving
produce. Nelson believes that by taking more
control of our own food we will become better
empowered to embrace sustainable lifestyles.
Orca Book Publishers
$10.95 PA
Anvil Press
$20.00 PA
Vancouver Confidential is a collaboration
of writers who plumb the shadows of civic
memory looking for stories that don’t fit into
mainstream narratives. By focusing on stories
of common people rather than headliners,
Vancouver Confidential shines a light on the
lives of Vancouverites that have for so long
been ignored.
Environmental savings by using 611 lbs of Arbor Plus Gloss 80lb, 30% post-consumer waste, FSC certified: 2 trees saved, 4 lbs of water-borne waste not created, 2476 litres of wastewater
flow saved, 72 lbs of solid waste not generated, 142 lbs net greenhouse gases prevented, 1,090, 635 BTUs of energy not consumed.
with the Children of Haida Gwaii
McKellar & Martin
Publishing Group
$19.99 HC
This is a story woven together by the
community on Haida Gwaii. Alison Gear
based this engaging story on one version of
the Haida Moon cycle. Taan (“bear” in the
Haida language) experiences and shares the
wonder of the unfolding seasons. Kiki van der
Heiden worked with 70 Kindergarten children
on Haida Gwaii to create the stunning felted
artwork. Includes Skidegate and Old Massett
Haida translations, and a Foreword by awardwinning author Richard Van Camp.