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Above the snow line : mountaineering sketches between 1870 and 1880

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1885
Author
Dent, Clinton
Publisher
London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
Call Number
01.2 D43a
Author
Dent, Clinton
Publisher
London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
Published Date
1885
Physical Description
327 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Exploration
Mountaineering
Alpine Club (Great Britain)
Expeditions
Switzerland
Accession Number
2023.47
Call Number
01.2 D43a
Collection
Archives Library
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Adventures of an alpine guide

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1932
Author
Klucker, Christian
Publisher
London : John Murray
Edition
1st (English)
Call Number
01.2 K71a
Author
Klucker, Christian
Responsibility
Translation by Erwin and Pleasaunce Von Gaisberg. Edited with additional chapters by H. E. G. Tyndale
Edition
1st (English)
Publisher
London : John Murray
Published Date
1932
Physical Description
329 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Guide
Klucker, Christian
Alps
Whymper, Edward
Canadian Rockies
Mont Blanc
Mountaineering
Accession Number
2023.47
Call Number
01.2 K71a
Collection
Archives Library
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Published Date
1949
Author
Murray Gibbon, John
Publisher
Toronto : The Ryerson Press
Call Number
05.1 M96t
Author
Murray Gibbon, John
Publisher
Toronto : The Ryerson Press
Published Date
1949
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Series
The Ryerson Poetry Chap-Books
Subjects
Poetry
Accession Number
3069A
Call Number
05.1 M96t
Collection
Archives Library
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Canadian Rockies whitewater

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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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
Collection
Archives Library
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Canadian Rockies whitewater the Central Rockies

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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Series
The second in a series of guidebooks
Subjects
Whitewater
Rocky Mountains
Central Rockies
Kayaking
Canoeing
Rafting
Travel
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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Contemporary japan : a review of Japanese affairs, March 1934, Vol. II, No. 4

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Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
1934
Publisher
Tokyo : The Foreign Affairs Association of Japan
Call Number
08 F76g
Responsibility
The Foreign Affairs Association of Japan
Publisher
Tokyo : The Foreign Affairs Association of Japan
Published Date
1934
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Japan
Politics
India
Soviet Russia
Sports
culture
Manchuria
China
Abstract
Contemporary Japan: A Review of Japanese Affairs includes various contributors writing about a variety of topics focused on Japan. This quarterly review was published by the Foreign Affairs Association of Japan.
Contents
The Open Door in China and Manchuria / Sakutaro Tachi ; Anglo-Japanese Relations / M. D. Kennedy ; Japan and Soviet Russia / Katsuji Fusé ; The New Delhi Conference / Tanzan Ishibashi ; The Real Hirota / Taketora Ogata ; The Japanese Spirit / Masaatsu Yasuoka ; Seventy Years with the Chisel (illustrated) / Koun Takamura ; War Clouds in the Far East / Hatsutaro Haraguchi ; Dissolve the Political Parties / Yosuké Matsuoka ; Sen Katayama / H. vere Redman ; Whither the Japanese Peasantry? / Akira Kazami ; Outdoor Sports in Japan / G. Caiger ; Konjaku Monogatari -- Another Heian Masterpiece / Masajiro Kojima
Notes
From Catharine Robb Whyte Estate. Contains image that has been tipped-in.
Accession Number
3069A
Call Number
08 F76g
Collection
Archives Library
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Douglas of the fir : a biography of David Douglas botanist

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1947
Author
George Harvey, Athelstan
Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press
Call Number
04.1 H26d
Author
George Harvey, Athelstan
Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press
Published Date
1947
Physical Description
x, 290 pages illustrations, portraits, maps 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Botany
Science
Travel
Canada
Upper Canada
Columbia River
Contents
Scotland ; The Horticultural Society ; United States and Upper Canada ; First Great Adventure ; Columbia River Region ; With Chief Tha-a-muxi ; Up the Columbia to Kettle Falls ; The Blue Mountains ; In Search of the Sugar Pine ; Homeward by Hudson's Bay Express ; Putting Mountains on the Map ; Fame and its Aftermath ; Second Great Adventure ; California ; Third Visit to the Columbia ; Ill-Fated Journey ; Flakes of Gold ; Hawaii and its Volcanoes ; Last Journey ; In Tribute
Accession Number
3069A
Call Number
04.1 H26d
Collection
Archives Library
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The golden grindstone : the adventures of George M. Mitchell

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1935
Publisher
Toronto : Oxford University Press, Canadian Branch
Call Number
08.2 G76g
Responsibility
Recorded by Angus Graham
Publisher
Toronto : Oxford University Press, Canadian Branch
Published Date
1935
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Exploration
Pioneer life
Travel
Indigenous
Indigenous People
Colonialism
Contents
I. The general idea -- II. The geographical problem -- III. The immigrant train -- IV. Edmonton -- V. Athbasca landing -- VI. The Athabasca River -- VII. Grand rapids -- VIII. The Slave River -- IX. Great Slave Lake -- X. Fort Simpson -- XI. The Mackenzie River -- XII. Fort McPherson --XIII. The Eskimo -- XIV. The first traffic with the Indians -- XV. The Peel River -- The upper Peel River and the valley of noises -- XVII. Gold -- XVIII. The winter camp -- XIX. Prospecting and exploration -- XX. Bears and wolves -- XXI. The winter night -- XXII. The Indians' visit -- XXIII. Dogs -- XXIV. The broken knee -- XXV. The last of the white men -- XXVI. The Indian Camp -- XXVI. The Indian Camp -- XXVII. Caribou -- XXVIII. The old lady -- XXIX. Famine and riot -- XXX. Mitchell becomes an Indian -- XXXI. An Indian "Veillee" -- XXXII. Women -- XXXIII. The closest shave of all -- XXXIV. The skin boats -- XXXV. Summer hunting -- XXXVI. Mitchell remains an Indian -- XXXVII. The last of the Indians.
Accession Number
2023.47
Call Number
08.2 G76g
Collection
Archives Library
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The Group of Seven : art for a nation

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1995
Author
Hill, Charles C.
Publisher
Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada ; Toronto, Ont. : McClelland & Stewart
Call Number
06.1 H55t
Author
Hill, Charles C.
Publisher
Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada ; Toronto, Ont. : McClelland & Stewart
Published Date
1995
Physical Description
374 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 32 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Group of Seven
History-Canada
Artists
ISBN
077106716X
Accession Number
2022.27
Call Number
06.1 H55t
Collection
Archives Library
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The high Alps : a natural history of ice and snow

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1931
Author
Tutton, A. E. H.
Publisher
London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.
Edition
2nd edition
Call Number
03 T89t
Author
Tutton, A. E. H.
Edition
2nd edition
Publisher
London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.
Published Date
1931
Physical Description
317 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Water
Ice
Snow
Science
Expeditions
Alps
Contents
PART I -- I. Introduction -- II. The evolution of our knowledge of water and ice -- III. The physical relationships of water and ice -- IV. The crystal structure of ice and snow -- V. Optical, thermal, and electrical properties of ice -- VI. Plasticity, viscosity, and elasticity of ice -- VII. Artificial ice production, river and ground ice, arctic and antarctic ice -- PART II -- VIII. The Alps, the ice and snow mountains of central Europe and their call -- IX. Nature and geological character of the Alps -- X. Situations of the ranges, peaks, and glaciers of the Alps -- XI. Snow-caps and glaciers and their movements -- XII. Crevasses, bergschrunds, and seracs ; dirt-bands and veins ; moraines and glacier lakes -- XIII. How the great summits have been conquered -- PART III -- XIV. Expeditions in the Bernese Oberland -- XV. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps, Monte Rosa -- Matterhorn section -- XVI. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps. Zinai, ferpecle and arolla section -- XVII. Expeditions in the chain of Mont Blanc -- XVIII. The ascent of Mont Blanc. Scientific work on the mountain -- XIX. Expeditions in the Graian and Dauphine Alps -- XX. Expeditions in the Bernina Alps and ortler group.
Accession Number
2023.47
Call Number
03 T89t
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In the shadow of Mount McKinley

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1931
Author
Beach, William N.
Publisher
New York ; The Derrydale Press
Edition
1st edition
Call Number
02.3 B36i
Author
Beach, William N.
Responsibility
Foreword by John Burnhalm ; Introduction by Robert Sterling Yard ; Illustrations by Carl Rungius
Edition
1st edition
Publisher
New York ; The Derrydale Press
Published Date
1931
Physical Description
289 pages ; 63 ill.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Travel
Expeditions
Exploration
Alaska
McKinley, Mount
Animals
Conservation
Contents
Foreword / John Burnham -- I. Introduction / Robert Sterling Yard -- II. In the shadow of Mt. McKinley -- III. Along the north side of the Alaskan range to Mt. Dall: expedition of 1925 -- IV. Jenny of Mt. McKinley -- V. Rainy Pass, saddle of the range: expedition of 1926 -- VI. Exploration of 1930 -- VII. Early exploration and later developments in the Mt. McKinley country -- VIII. Mt. McKinley National Park -- IX. American big game animals: mountain sheep, caribou, moose, deer and elk, bear, goat -- X. On conservation of big game.
Notes
Special Edition: 750 copies printed.
Accession Number
2023.47
Call Number
02.3 B36i
Collection
Archives Library
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Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1999
Author
Robinson, Dave
Publisher
Jasper AB : Otto Press
Call Number
02.8 R56j
Author
Robinson, Dave
Publisher
Jasper AB : Otto Press
Published Date
1999
Physical Description
117 pages, 21.4cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Climbing
Jasper
Abstract
Climbing guide for the Jasper area.
Contents
Climate -- Where to stay, eat, camp, shop -- Gear -- Climbing wall and training -- History
Notes
Ben Gadd Personal Library
Also potentially known as 'David A. Robinson' author of 'Jasper sport climbing'
Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
02.8 R56j
Collection
Archives Library
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Jasper sport climbing

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1994
Author
Robinson, David A.
Publisher
Jasper AB : Otto Press
Call Number
02.8 R56j
Author
Robinson, David A.
Responsibility
Cover image by Hugh Lecky
Publisher
Jasper AB : Otto Press
Published Date
1994
Physical Description
48 pages, 17.6cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Climbing
Jasper
Abstract
Climbing route descriptors for the Jasper area with illustrated figures
Contents
The Crags, new routes, and the environment -- Crag of the gods -- Dune wall -- West highway -- Rock gardens -- Morro slabs -- Two gap canyon -- Roche Miette -- Hidden valley -- Other areas
Notes
Ben Gadd Personal Library
Also potentially known as 'Dave Robinson' author of 'Jasper Rock'
Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
02.8 R56j
Collection
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Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1886
Author
Michelet, Jules
Publisher
London : L. Nelson and Sons
Call Number
01.2 M58t
Author
Michelet, Jules
Publisher
London : L. Nelson and Sons
Published Date
1886
Physical Description
260 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Switzerland
Europe
Alps
Mountaineering
Glaciers
Nature
Accession Number
2023.47
Call Number
01.2 M58t
Collection
Archives Library
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Mushrooms of Western Canada

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1991
2021
Author
Schalkwijk-Barendsen, Helen M.E.
Publisher
Edmonton, AB : Lone Pine Publishing
Call Number
04.1 Sch1m 1991
04.1 Sch1m 2021
Author
Schalkwijk-Barendsen, Helen M.E.
Publisher
Edmonton, AB : Lone Pine Publishing
Published Date
1991
2021
Physical Description
416 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Mushrooms
Guidebook
Identification
Western Canada
Botany
Plants
Science
Illustrations
Contents
Introduction -- Illustrated key to fruiting bodies -- Classification overview -- Keys to colour illustrations -- Colour illustrations -- Species descriptions.
Notes
Ben Gadd Personal Library
ISBN
0919433472
Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
04.1 Sch1m 1991
04.1 Sch1m 2021
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Nature Alberta an Illustrated guide to common plants and animals

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1991
Author
Kavanagh, James
Publisher
Edmonton AB : Lone Pine Publishing
Call Number
04 K17n
Author
Kavanagh, James
Responsibility
Illustrations by Marianne Nakaska, Linda Dunn, and Horst H.Krause
Publisher
Edmonton AB : Lone Pine Publishing
Published Date
1991
Physical Description
191 pages, 21.5cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Animals
Flowers
Mammals
Wildflower
Amphibians
Nature
Alberta
Illustrations
Abstract
Introductory guide to common plants and animals of Alberta with illustrations -- Back of book
Contents
Mammals -- Birds -- Amphibians -- Reptiles -- Fish -- Alberta plants -- Trees -- Shrubs -- Wildflowers
Notes
Ben Gadd Personal Library
ISBN
091943391x
Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
04 K17n
Collection
Archives Library
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The Norton book of nature writing

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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Nature
Literature
Natural history
Naturalists
Travel
Biographies
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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Outdoor life cyclopedia : a complete guide for sportsmen

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1945
Publisher
New York : Outdoor Life
Call Number
02.7 Ou8o
Responsibility
Prepared by the editorial staff of Outdoor Life
Publisher
New York : Outdoor Life
Published Date
1945
Physical Description
334 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Fishing
Firearms
Hunting
Deer
Elk
Bears
Dogs
Water Travel
Camping
Woodcraft
Food
Contents
Angling equipment -- Methods of fishing -- Fresh water fishing -- Ocean fishing -- The sporting rifle -- Learning to shoot -- Methods of hunting -- The deer family -- Elk, antelope, sheep, bear -- Hunting small game -- The shotgun -- American waterfowl -- Our upland birds -- Mastering the handgun -- Your gun dog -- The sportsman's boat -- Camping and woodcraft -- Camp recipies.
Accession Number
2023.47
Call Number
02.7 Ou8o
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The outdoor traveler's guide Canada

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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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
Collection
Archives Library
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The pathfinder [film]

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Medium
Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
Published Date
[1932?]
Publisher
Associated Screen News Limited
Call Number
08.3 W69 NF
Responsibility
B.E. Norrish [producer]
Photographer: Alfred Jacquemin
described by B.K. Sandwell
narrated by Corey Thomson
Publisher
Associated Screen News Limited
Published Date
[1932?]
Physical Description
1 16mm film reel
Medium
Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
Subjects
Wilson, Tom
Abstract
Biography about Tom Wilson. Storyline includes reenactments of unidentified Indigenous men who showed him where the locations of Lake Louise and Emerald Lake were. Also includes the real Tom Wilson, Pat Brewster, ca. 1932.
Notes
16mm film copied to digital file May 27, 2021: mp4; .mov and .mxf. Former 08.3 W69 V DVD copy was from a VHS copy.
Call Number
08.3 W69 NF
Collection
Archives Library
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