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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
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 01.2 K71a
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All about babies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25558
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1963
- Author
- Coleman, H. T. J.
- Publisher
- Sidney, British Columbia : Gray's Publishing Ltd.
- Call Number
- 05.1 C68a
- Author
- Coleman, H. T. J.
- Responsibility
- Cover and illustrations E. Downing Baker
- Publisher
- Sidney, British Columbia : Gray's Publishing Ltd.
- Published Date
- 1963
- Physical Description
- 57 pages
- Subjects
- Poetry
- Literature
- Abstract
- A collection of childrens stories detailing a variety of animals as babies.
- Accession Number
- 3069A
- Call Number
- 05.1 C68a
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An introduction to crystallography
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25663
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1966
- Author
- Phillips, F. C.
- Publisher
- London : Longmans, Green and Co Ltd
- Call Number
- 03 P54a
- Author
- Phillips, F. C.
- Publisher
- London : Longmans, Green and Co Ltd
- Published Date
- 1966
- Physical Description
- 340 pages : 535 diagrams
- Subjects
- Crystallography
- Geology
- Science
- Contents
- 1. The nature of the crystalline state -- 2. Methods of projection -- 3. The description of crystals -- 4. A general study of the seven crystal systems -- 5. Goniometry -- 6. The thirty-two classes -- 7. Parallel growth and composite crystals -- 8. Some mathematical relationships -- 9. Crystal drawings -- 10. The symmetry of internal structure -- 11. Space groups -- 12. Diffraction of x-rays by crystals -- 13. Crystal habit
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 03 P54a
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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
- 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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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
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Contemporary japan : a review of Japanese affairs, March 1934, Vol. II, No. 4
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25565
- 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
- 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
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Fenollosa and his circle
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1962
- Author
- Brooks, Van Wyck
- Publisher
- New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
- Call Number
- 05 B79f
- Author
- Brooks, Van Wyck
- Publisher
- New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
- Published Date
- 1962
- Physical Description
- 321 pages
- Abstract
- A parade of fascinating personalities -- intellectuals, artists, travelers and explorers -- moves through this rich and colorful book of biographical essays by the author of Makers and Finders. --From dust cover
- Contents
- Fenollosa and His Circle ; Fanny Wright ; John Lloyd Stephens ; George Catlin ; Charles Wilkes ; Charles Godfrey Leland ; Anecdotes of Maurice Prendergast ; Randolph Bourne
- Accession Number
- 3069A
- Call Number
- 05 B79f
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The golden grindstone : the adventures of George M. Mitchell
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26172
- 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
- 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
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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
- Subjects
- Group of Seven
- History-Canada
- Artists
- ISBN
- 077106716X
- Accession Number
- 2022.27
- Call Number
- 06.1 H55t
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The high Alps : a natural history of ice and snow
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- 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
- 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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- 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.
- 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
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Intoduction to the structure of the earth
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1969
- Author
- Spencer, Edgar W.
- Publisher
- New York : McGraw Book Company
- Call Number
- 03 S3i
- Author
- Spencer, Edgar W.
- Publisher
- New York : McGraw Book Company
- Published Date
- 1969
- Physical Description
- 597 pages
- Subjects
- Geology
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Concepts of stress and strain -- 3. Theory and rock failure -- fracture -- 4. Faults -- 5. Behavior of materials -- 6. Folds and folding -- 7. Clevage, mullion, rodding, kinks, and boudinage -- 8. Primary sedimentary structures -- 9. Structures in unconsolidated sediment and salt -- 10. Earth's interior and major crustal elements -- 11. The North American continental craton and its stable margin -- 12. A case study of an orogenic belt -- the Alps -- 13. Anatomy of a folded mountain belt -- the Appalachians -- 14. Structural features of the North American cordillera -- 15. Sturctural features of the ocean basins -- 16. Examples of modern diatrophism -- 17. Tectonic syntheses
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- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 03 S3i
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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
- 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
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Jasper sport climbing
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- 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
- 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'
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- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 02.8 R56j
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Mushrooms of Western Canada
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- 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
- Publisher
- Edmonton, AB : Lone Pine Publishing
- Published Date
- 1991
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 416 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- 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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- 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
- 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
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- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 04 K17n
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Ni-Kso-Ko-Wa Blackfoot spirituality, traditions values and beliefs
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1992
- Author
- Long Standing Bear Chief a.k.a Gray, Harold E.
- Publisher
- Montana USA : Spirit Talk Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 L86n
- Responsibility
- Cover Art from William Day Child watercolours
- Publisher
- Montana USA : Spirit Talk Press
- Published Date
- 1992
- Physical Description
- 68pages, 21.4cm
- Subjects
- Blackfoot
- Indigenous
- Indigenous Culture
- Abstract
- Indigenous history of the Blackfoot people from the perspective of Long Standing Bear Chief.
- Contents
- Blackfoot or Blackfeet -- Reservation -- Give away celebrations -- Making of relatives -- Drums/songs/chants -- Painted lodges -- Pow Wows/ other celebrations -- Animal spirits -- Ni-kso-ko-was, my realtives -- Prayers and offerings -- The circle -- Indian names -- Chiefs -- The Buffalo -- Fasting and visions -- Plants and medicines -- Peyote -- The ceremonial pipe -- The four directions -- Indivdual prayer -- Indians and war -- Indian dances -- Face painting -- Anglicized words -- Traditional Indian and today's society -- Attending ceremonies/expressing an interest -- Women -- A vow
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 0963514814
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 07.2 L86n
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The Norton book of nature writing
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- 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.
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- 0393027996
- Accession Number
- 2020.21
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- 05.5 F49t
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A nostalgic view of Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25553
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1962
- Author
- Buchanan, Donald W.
- Publisher
- Toronto : McClelland and Steward Ltd.
- Call Number
- 06.4 B86a
- Author
- Buchanan, Donald W.
- Publisher
- Toronto : McClelland and Steward Ltd.
- Published Date
- 1962
- Physical Description
- 45 pages II. ; 20 cm
- Subjects
- Photography
- Alberta
- Quebec and Ontario
- Canada
- Abstract
- In this book Donald W. Buchanan recreates the flavour of the Canada of his youth, matching a nostalgic text with his own photographs of evocative scenes from the ranches of Happy Valley, Alberta, to Kamouraska County in Quebec. -- From the publisher
- Accession Number
- 3069A
- Call Number
- 06.4 B86a
- 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
- Collection
- Archives Library
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