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Antarctic oasis : under the spell of South Georgia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20140
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1998
- Author
- Carr, Pauline
- Carr, Tim
- Publisher
- London ; W.W. Norton & Company
- Call Number
- G370-480 C37 A58
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- Author
- Carr, Pauline
- Carr, Tim
- Responsibility
- Tim and Pauline Carr
- Publisher
- London ; W.W. Norton & Company
- Published Date
- 1998
- Physical Description
- 256 pages : illustrations ; maps
- Subjects
- Antarctic Regions
- Sailing
- Boating
- Travel
- Abstract
- An account of one couple's life on a remote island beyond the Polar Front, a tale to rival the exploits of the great nineteenth-century explorers. After twenty-five years of cruising the world's oceans, renowned blue-water sailors Pauline and Tim Carr found themselves being drawn to the lonely places of the higher latitudes to experience earth's last, scarcely touched regions. Antarctic Oasis records the culmination of those exploits. True adventurers, the Carrs have lived year-round on South Georgia for five years its only civilian inhabitants experiencing a way of life that has all but vanished from our modern world. A center of the Norwegian whaling industry in the last century, today a remnant of the far-flung British Empire, South Georgia is a splendid if forbidding land of towering, glacier-clad mountains and a treacherous, storm-torn coast punctuated by sheltered bays. During its brief polar summer, the island's verdant shoreline offers Antarctic wildlife a place to feed, mate, and rear their young. The only humans on the scene, the Carrs have learned intimate details about the lives of whales, penguins, seals, albatrosses, skuas, and many others. In all seasons the Carrs explore South Georgia's uncompromising coast aboard their yacht Curlew. Their deep fascination with the island, its wildlife, and its history will stir the spirit of adventure and discovery in us all. (from Abe Books)
- Contents
- Foreward
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Chapter I - Ultimate Landfall
- Chapter II - Antarctic Outpost
- Chapter III - Nine to Five
- Chapter IV - Green Antarctic
- Chapter V - Kindred Souls
- Chapter VI - Shackleton's Shadow
- Chapter VII - The Rough with the Smooth
- Chapter VIII - Albatross
- Chapter IX - Elephantastic
- Chapter X - The Mountaineering Dimension
- Chapter XI - Just Talking to the Birds
- Chapter XII - The Wild Side
- Chapter XIII - A Shimmer of Ice
- Chapter XIV - A Clean Pair of Heels
- Index
- Notes
- Ephemra of Margaret Gmoser pertaining to trip removed from book and added to AC637 box of archival materials
- Signed by the eleven participants of the September 17-19, 2004 Shackleton Crossing trip
- Signed by the authors with greetings addressed to Margaret Gmoser
- ISBN
- 0393046052
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- G370-480 C37 A58
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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- Link to publication on Abe Books
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Calgary's mountain panorama
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue11944
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- c1990
- Author
- Birrell, Dave
- Publisher
- Calgary : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- R 02.01 B53
- Author
- Birrell, Dave
- Responsibility
- text by Dave Birrell; artwork by Ron Ellis
- Publisher
- Calgary : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- c1990
- Physical Description
- 95 p. : ill., ports., map
- Subjects
- Fire lookouts
- Mines
- Quarries
- Travel
- World War I
- Notes
- Fold out panorama attached to back cover. Index of peaks at end
- ISBN
- 0921102127
- Accession Number
- 5935
- Call Number
- R 02.01 B53
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Canadian Rockies whitewater
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26273
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1995
- Author
- Smith, Stuart
- Publisher
- Jasper AB : Headwaters Press Ltd.
- Call Number
- 02.8 SM5r
- Author
- Smith, Stuart
- Publisher
- Jasper AB : Headwaters Press Ltd.
- Published Date
- 1995
- Physical Description
- 312 pages, 22.6cm
- Series
- Canadian Rockies Whitewater
- Subjects
- Travel
- Rocky Mountains
- Canoeing
- Kayaking
- Rafting
- Whitewater
- Abstract
- The complete guidebook to whitewater boating in the Southern Rockies -- back of book
- Contents
- Shortened contents : Elk river drainage -- Lower Kootenay drainage -- St. Mary drainage (British Columbia) -- Middle Kootenay drainage -- Upper Kootenay drainage -- Upper Columbia drainage -- Kicking Horse drainage -- Lower Oldman drainage -- Castle and Crowsnest drainage -- Upper Oldman drainage -- Elbow and Highwood drainage -- Lower Bow drainage -- Upper Bow drainage
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- First volume
- ISBN
- 0969961804
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 02.8 SM5r
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- Archives Library
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Canadian Rockies whitewater the Central Rockies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26270
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1996
- Author
- Smith, Stuart
- Publisher
- Jasper AB : Headwaters Press Ltd.
- Call Number
- 02.8 SM5c
- Author
- Smith, Stuart
- Publisher
- Jasper AB : Headwaters Press Ltd.
- Published Date
- 1996
- Physical Description
- 336 pages, 22.8cm
- Series
- The second in a series of guidebooks
- Abstract
- A river guide for canoeists, kayakers and rafters - front cover
- Contents
- Shortened Contents : Lower North Saskatchewan river drainage -- Upper North Saskatchewan river drainage -- Brazeau river drainage -- Lower Athabasca river drainage -- Middle Athabasca river drainage -- Upper Athabasca river drainage -- Columbia river drainage -- Upper Fraser river drainage -- Lower Fraser rover drainage
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 0969961804
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 02.8 SM5c
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The Columbia River highway : America's greatest scenic drive
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20084
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1801
- Author
- Cross and Dimmitt
- Call Number
- 02.3 C87t
- Author
- Cross and Dimmitt
- Published Date
- 1801
- Physical Description
- Portland, Oregon : Cross and Dimmitt
- Subjects
- Columbia River
- Art
- Travel
- Tourism
- Abstract
- Pertains to a collection of hand colored images showcasing the beauty of Oregon in the United States of America. The publication follows the Columbia River highway, a stretch of road reaching west from Portland to the Pacific, and east to Central Oregon. The publication showcases various tourist locations in addition to other breathtaking hand-colored images.
- Accession Number
- 3069 a
- Call Number
- 02.3 C87t
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- Archives Library
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Handbook for travellers in Switzerland, and the Alps of Savoy ...
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1879
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1846
- Author
- Murray, John
- Publisher
- London : John Murray
- Edition
- 3d ed
- Call Number
- DQ16 M87 I
- Author
- Murray, John
- Edition
- 3d ed
- Publisher
- London : John Murray
- Published Date
- 1846
- Physical Description
- 226 pages
- Series
- Volume 1 of 2
- Subjects
- Travel
- Switzerland
- Call Number
- DQ16 M87 I
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Handbook for travellers in Switzerland, and the Alps of Savoy ...
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14947
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1846
- Author
- Murray, John
- Publisher
- London : John Murray
- Edition
- 3d ed
- Call Number
- DQ16 M87 II
- Author
- Murray, John
- Edition
- 3d ed
- Publisher
- London : John Murray
- Published Date
- 1846
- Physical Description
- 420 pages
- Series
- Volume 2 of 2
- Subjects
- Travel
- Switzerland
- Call Number
- DQ16 M87 II
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Imperial eyes : travel writing and transculturation
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1313
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1992
- Author
- Pratt, Mary Louise
- Publisher
- London ; New York : Routledge
- Call Number
- 08 P88i
- Author
- Pratt, Mary Louise
- Responsibility
- Mary Louise Pratt
- Publisher
- London ; New York : Routledge
- Published Date
- 1992
- Physical Description
- xii, 257 pages : illustrations
- Abstract
- Pertains to travel writing and European expansion beginning in 1750 with focus on South America and Africa
- Contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Criticism in the contact zone -- Science and sentiment, 1750-1800 -- Science, planetary, consciousness, interiors -- Narrating the anti-conquest -- Anti-conquest II: the mystique of reciprocity -- Eros and abolition -- The reinvention of America, 1800-50 -- Alexander von Humboldt and the reinvention of America -- Reinvention America II: the capitalist vanguard and the exploratrices sociales -- Reinventing America/reinventing Europe: Creole self-fashioning -- Imperial stylistics, 1860-1980 -- From the Victoria Nyanza to the Sheraton San Salvador.
- ISBN
- 0-415-06095-8 pbk
- Accession Number
- 2019.01
- Call Number
- 08 P88i
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The Norton book of nature writing
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26258
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1990
- Publisher
- New York : W.W. Norton
- Call Number
- 05.5 F49t
- Responsibility
- Edited by Robert Finch and John Elder.
- Publisher
- New York : W.W. Norton
- Published Date
- 1990
- Physical Description
- 921 pages ; 23.5cm
- Abstract
- A comprehensive collection of the many voices of nature writing which have flourished in England and America over the last two hundred years. Includes 125 selections by 94 writers.
- Contents
- From "The natural history and antiquities of Selborne" / Gilbert White -- From "Letters from an American farmer"; from "Sketches of eighteenth century America" / Hector St. John de Crevecoeur -- From "Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida" / William Bartram -- From "American ornithology; or, the natural history of the birds of the United States" / Alexander Wilson -- From "The journal of a naturalist" / John Leonard Knapp -- From "Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth" / Dorothy Wordsworth -- From "Anima Poetae" / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- From "Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles" / Charles Waterton. From "A tour on the prairies" / Washington Irving -- From "Ornithological biography" / John James Audubon -- From "The natural world"; from "The natural history prose writings of John Clare" / John Clare -- From "Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians" / George Catlin -- From "Nature"; from "The journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson" / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- From "Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle"; from "On the origin of species by means of natural selection"; from "The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex:"/ Charles Darwin -- From "A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers"; From "Walden : or, life in the woods"; "Walking"; from "The Maine woods"; from "Journals" / Henry David Thoreau. From "Glaucus; or, the wonders of the shore" / Charles Kingsley -- From "Moby-Dick; or, the whale" / Herman Melville -- From "Modern painters" / John Ruskin -- From "Specimen days and collect" / Walt Whitman -- From "The life of the grasshopper" / Jean Henri Fabre -- From "The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise" / Alfred Russel Wallace -- From "Exploration of the Colorado River of the west and its tributaries" / John Wesley Powell -- From "Life on the Mississippi" / Samuel Clemens -- "In Mammoth Cave"; "The gospel of nature" / John Burroughs -- "A wind-storm in the forests"; "The water-ouzel" / John Muir -- "My friend the pig"; from "Idle days in Patagonia"; from "Birds and man"; from "Afoot in England"; from "A traveller in little things" / W.H. Hudson. From "Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada" / Clarence King -- From "The American scene" / Henry James -- From "Notebooks and papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins" / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- "Out of doors in February"; "Absence of design in nature" / Richard Jefferies -- From "The land of little rain" / Mary Austin -- From "The south country" / Edward Thomas -- From "N by E" / Rockwell Kent -- "The death of the moth" / Virginia Woolf -- From "Out of Africa" / Isak Dinesen -- "Flowery Tuscany" / D.H. Lawrence -- From "The outermost house : a year of life on the great beach of Cape Cod" / Henry Beston -- From "A Sand County almanac" / Aldo Leopold -- "Two lives" / Gustav Eckstein -- "Love in the desert"; "The colloid and the crystal" / Joseph Wood Krutch -- From "An almanac for moderns" / Donald Culross Peattie -- "Northern lights" / Sigurd Olson -- "The lost woods"; "The Selborne Nightingale" / Edwin Way Teale. "A slight sound at evening" / E.B. White -- "The ancient people and the newly come" / Meridel LeSueur -- From "The wooing of earth" / Rene Dubos -- From "A river runs through it" / Norman Maclean -- From "The grapes of wrath"; from "The log from the Sea of Cortez" / John Steinbeck -- "Some thoughts on the common toad" / George Orwell -- From "The heart of the hunter" / Laurens Van Der Post -- "The snakes are about" / T.H. White -- From "The edge of the sea" / Rachel Carson -- "The judgment of the birds"; "The star thrower" / Loren Eiseley -- From "The windward road" / Archie Carr -- "Glen Canyon Submersus"; "Coda : wilderness letter" / Wallace Stegner -- From "A land" / Jacquetta Hawkes -- "Antaeus in Manhattan"; "Death in the open"; "The world's biggest membrane"; "The Tucson Zoo" / Lewis Thomas. From "Ring of bright water" / Gavin Maxwell -- From "The run"; from "In defense of nature" / John Hay -- "Rain and rhinoceros" / Thomas Merton -- "From "Goodbye to a river" / John Graves -- From "Beautiful swimmers : watermen, crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay" / William Warner -- From "Never cry wolf"; from "People of the deer" / Farley Mowat -- "Moments and journey" / John Haines -- From "The mysterious lands" / Ann Haymond Zwinger -- From "The Peregrine" / J.A. Baker -- From "The tree" / John Fowles -- From "The secret islands" / Franklin Russell -- From "Desert solitaire"' "The great American desert" / Edward Abbey -- From "The tree where man was born"; from "The wind birds" / Peter Matthiessen -- "Skin" / Richard Selzer -- "A very warm mountain" / Ursula K. Le Guin -- From "Biophilia" / Edward O. Wilson. From "Coming into the country"; "Under the snow" / John McPhee -- From "The hunt" / John G. Mitchell -- "Hailing the elusory mountain lion"; "Thoughts on returning to the city after five months on a mountain where the wolves howled" / Edward Hoagland -- "Spring rain"; "Eclipse" / John Updike -- "An entrance to the woods" / Wendell Berry -- From "The way to Rainy Mountain" / N. Scott Momaday -- From "A country year" / Sue Hubbell -- "The silence" / Chet Raymo -- "The gifts" / Richard K. Nelson -- "What the stones said" / Robert Finch -- "Dreaming elands" / Peter Steinhart -- From "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"; "Total eclipse" / Annie Dillard -- From "Arctic dreams"; "The raven" / Barry Lopez -- From "The Klamath Knot" / David Rains Wallace -- From "The solace of open spaces" / Gretel Ehrlich -- From "Wintergreen : listening to the land's heart" / Robert Michael Pyle -- "Animal rights and beyond" / David Quammen. "Landscape, history, and the Pueblo imagination" / Leslie Marmon Silko -- From "Adam's task : calling animals by name" / Vicki Hearne -- From "The desert smells like rain : a naturalist in Papago Indian country" / Gary Paul Nabhan -- "In the country of grasses" / Terry Tempest Williams.
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 0393027996
- Accession Number
- 2020.21
- Call Number
- 05.5 F49t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The outdoor traveler's guide Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26269
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1991
- Author
- Dunbar, David
- Publisher
- New York, USA : Stewart, Tabori & Chang, Inc.
- Call Number
- 02.4 D91t
- Author
- Dunbar, David
- Responsibility
- Photography by First Light Associated Photographers
- Publisher
- New York, USA : Stewart, Tabori & Chang, Inc.
- Published Date
- 1991
- Physical Description
- 399 pages, 21.6cm
- Series
- The outdoor traveler's guide
- Subjects
- Canada
- Travel
- Photography
- Abstract
- Illustrated guidebook of 37 parks accross the country with full colour images and maps -- back cover
- Contents
- The West -- The Praries -- Central Canada -- Atlantic Canada -- The North
- Notes
- Special handwritten dedication to Ben Gadd from the author. The author also left his signed business card with a thank you dedication to Ben Gadd. The business card has his name, address, and phone number.
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 1556701691
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 02.4 D91t
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