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Trees and shrubs in winter : a guide to the identification of common trees and shrubs in Northwestern British Columbia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26226
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2003
- Author
- Pojar, Rosamund
- Publisher
- Smithers, BC : Cassiope Press
- Smithers, BC : Creekstone Press
- Call Number
- 04.1 P75t 2003
- 04.1 P75t 2010
- Author
- Pojar, Rosamund
- Responsibility
- Illustrations by Evi Coulson
- Publisher
- Smithers, BC : Cassiope Press
- Smithers, BC : Creekstone Press
- Published Date
- 2003
- Physical Description
- 153 pages : illustrations ; 12 cm
- Contents
- Introduction -- Key to sections -- Key to coniferous trees -- Key #1 to deciduous trees (shrubby form) -- Key #2 to deciduous trees (mature) -- Key to deciduous shrubs (or small trees) with alternate buds -- Key to evergreen shrubs -- Additional trees and shrubs that occur in the northern interior and northern coastal regions of British Columbia -- Glossary.
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 097335920
- 9780978319533
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 04.1 P75t 2003
- 04.1 P75t 2010
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Beyond the rockies : three thousand miles by trail and canoe through little-known British Columbia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26158
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1929
- Author
- Johnston, Lukin
- Publisher
- London ; Toronto : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Call Number
- 02.5 J64b
- Author
- Johnston, Lukin
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- London ; Toronto : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.
- Published Date
- 1929
- Physical Description
- 212 pages ; 52 ill.
- Contents
- Foreword -- I. In which we discover an island eden in the Gulf of Georgia -- II. We explore Galiano, Pender and Salt Spring Islands -- III. Over the Cariboo highway--A foot and otherwise -- IV. In which a bishop comes to the rescue -- V. A "hobo's" adventures by the way -- VI. A sky-pilot among the enchanted islands of the British Columbia coast -- VII. Barkerville--The town of a thousand golden memories -- VIII. Chilcotin--Heart of the great British Columbia cattle country -- IX. Secrets in the great north -- X. Prince George and historic Fort St. James -- XI. Trappers, traders and pioneer settlers -- XII. Romantic trails of northern British Columbia -- XIII. The bridge river valley -- XIV. Waterways of the great north -- XV. Down the Peace--From finlay forks to old Fort St. John -- XVI. Peace River--The Last great west -- XVII. Taming the northern wilderness--The Story of sixteen years.
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
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- 02.5 J64b
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Tales of western mountaineer : a record of mountain experiences on the Pacific coast
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26159
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1924
- Author
- Rusk, C. E.
- Publisher
- Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Call Number
- 01.3 R89t
- Author
- Rusk, C. E.
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
- Published Date
- 1924
- Physical Description
- 309 pages ; 40 ill.
- Abstract
- This is a book of cliffs and crags, glaciers and crevasses, rope-work, axe-work, glissading, bergschrunds, arêtes, snow cornices, avalanches, -- everything that goes to make up mountain climbing of the genuine alpine sort. Excerpt from dustjacket.
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 01.3 R89t
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The art & sport of alpine photography
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26162
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1927
- Author
- Gardner, Arthur
- Publisher
- London : H. F. and G. Witherby
- Call Number
- 06.4 G17t
- Author
- Gardner, Arthur
- Publisher
- London : H. F. and G. Witherby
- Published Date
- 1927
- Physical Description
- 234 pages ; 150 ill.
- Subjects
- Photography
- Alpine Photography
- Contents
- I. Stating the case -- II. On composition and foregrounds -- III. Weather, lighting and seasons -- IV. Mountain portraits -- V. Conclusion
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 06.4 G17t
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Life and limb : a true story of tragedy and survival against the odds
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25738
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2004
- Author
- Andrew, Jamie
- Publisher
- London : Portrait, an imprint of Judy Piatkus Limited
- Call Number
- 01.2 An2l
- Author
- Andrew, Jamie
- Publisher
- London : Portrait, an imprint of Judy Piatkus Limited
- Published Date
- 2004
- Physical Description
- 306 pages
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Mountaineers
- Accidents
- Survival
- Abstract
- The weather looked perfect when Jamie Andrew and his closest friend, Jamie Fisher set off to climb the formidable North Face of Les Droites in the French Alps in 1999. But a sudden and ferocious storm hit them 10,000 feet up the mountain. They were trapped on a narrow ridge in temperatures of -30C, battered by winds so strong the rescue helicopters could not reach them. After five nightmarish nights doggedly clinging to life, Jamie Andrew was finally rescued; but his friend Jamie Fisher had died beside him on the last night. -- From inside cover
- ISBN
- 0749950072
- Accession Number
- P2023.19
- Call Number
- 01.2 An2l
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On thin ice : alpine climbs in the Americas, Asia and the Himalaya
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25740
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2005
- Author
- Fowler, Mick
- Publisher
- London : Baton Works Publications
- Call Number
- 01 F83o
- Author
- Fowler, Mick
- Responsibility
- Foreword by Chris Bonington
- Publisher
- London : Baton Works Publications
- Published Date
- 2005
- Physical Description
- 223 pages
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Mountaineers
- Climbing
- Travel
- Sports
- Abstract
- Mick Fowler's second set of climbing memoirs, follows Vertical Pleasure (Hodder, 1995). Here the celebrated mountaineer records his expeditions since 1990. Despite work and family commitments he has maintained a regular series of 'big trips' to challending objectives around the world with a sequence of major successes. -- From inside cover
- ISBN
- 1898573581
- Accession Number
- P2023.19
- Call Number
- 01 F83o
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John Singer Sargent : figures and landscapes 1874-1882 ; complete paintings. Vol. IV
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25679
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Ormond, Richard and Kilmurray, Elaine
- Publisher
- New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press
- Call Number
- 06.1 O6j
- Publisher
- New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- 446 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 32 cm
- Subjects
- Sargent, John Singer
- Art
- Abstract
- With few exceptions, this book illustrates John Singer's paintings in colour including several never published before. Each painting is documented with full provenance, exhibition history, and bibliography. The volume also reproduces Sargent's preliminary and related drawings and of comparative works by other artists.
- Contents
- Models, c. 1874-1880 -- Classical and religious subjects, c. 1874-1879 -- Landscape and architectural studies, c. 1875-1880 -- Brittany and the sea, c. 1874-1879 -- Naples and Capri, 1878 -- Paris, c. 1878-1882 -- Studies after the old masters, c. 1879-1880 -- Spain and El Jaleo, 1879-1882 -- Morocco, 1880 -- Venice, 1880-1882.
- Notes
- Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
- ISBN
- 9780300117165
- Accession Number
- 2022.27
- Call Number
- 06.1 O6j
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Deep Alberta : fossil facts and dinosaur digs
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25673
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2007
- Author
- Acorn, John
- Publisher
- Drumheller, Alta. : Royal Tyrrell Museum
- Call Number
- 04 A7d
- Author
- Acorn, John
- Publisher
- Drumheller, Alta. : Royal Tyrrell Museum
- Published Date
- 2007
- Physical Description
- xii, 186 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Paleontology
- Dinosaurs
- Fossils
- Contents
- Geology of Alberta map -- Albanerpetontids, as we say -- Ammonites and ammolites -- Albertosaurus, Alberta's dinosaur -- Amber, fossilized tree sap -- Amia, the bowfin -- Atrociraptor, the new raptor -- Basilemys, a very large turtle -- Bison, as opposed to buffalo -- The Blindman River -- Belonostomus, a pointy-headed fish -- Barnum Brown, fossil hunter -- Burbank, Alberta -- Calgary and the things that lay beneath it -- Extinct camels -- The Canadian shield -- Centrosaurus, a herding horned dinosaur -- Champsosaurus, a kind of non-crocodile -- Chasmosaurus, a short-horned dinosaur -- North American cheetahs -- The Bow Valley at Cochrane -- Cretaceous lizards -- Alberta's crocodilians -- Dawn redwood trees -- Devil's Coulee and its dinosaur nests -- Didelphodon, a sort of primitive possum -- Dinosaur Provincial Park -- Dromaeosaurus, a snappy little raptor -- The Drumheller Badlands -- Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park -- Dunkleosteus, a very scary fish -- Edmonton, a modest sort of dinosaur graveyard -- Edmontosaurus, Edmonton's duck-billed dinosaur -- Edmontonia, Edmonton's other dinosaur -- Feathered dinosaurs -- Fossil frogs -- Gar, the fish -- Horn corals -- How do you know where to dig? -- Hypacrosaurus, less than the ultimate dinosaur -- The Kleskun Hills -- Lambeosaurus, Lambe's dinosaur -- Leptoceratops, a hornless horned dinosaur -- Alberta's lions -- Lundbreck Falls and the black beauty -- Mammoths and mastodons -- The Milk River -- Mosasaurs, the giant marine lizards -- Multituberculates, common but extinct mammals -- Myledaphus, a guitar fish -- New fossil names -- The oil sands -- Ornithomimids, the bird mimics -- Pachyrhinosaurus, the thick-nosed dinosaur -- Palaeontology in Alberta -- Pantodonts, giant Palaeocene mammals -- Parasaurolophus, a long-headed duck-bill -- Parksosaurus, Park's dinosaur -- The world's oldest pike -- Plants of the ornithomimid quarry -- Plesiadapis, a weird early primate -- Plesiosaurs, the sea serpents of the Mesozoic -- "Primitive" plants -- Pterosaurs, the flying reptiles -- Fossil salamanders -- Sandy Point -- Saurornitholestes, a raptor -- Short-faced bear -- Since the Ice Age -- Snakes of the dinosaur times -- Soft-shelled turtles -- Stegoceras -- The Sternberg family -- Sedimentology, the science of sediments -- Sturgeon, a living fossil fish -- Styracosaurus, a classic Alberta dinosaur -- Trace fossils -- Troodon, the "smart" dinosaur -- Triceratops, the three-horned face -- Tyrannosaurus or "T. rex"-- The venomous mammal.
- Notes
- Based on the radio series "Deep Alberta", broadcast on CKUA Radio and sponsored by the Royal Tyrrell Museum. Ben Gadd Personal Library
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- 9780888644817
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 04 A7d
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Proud heritage : people and progress in early Canadian geoscience
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25670
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2004
- Publisher
- St. John's, Newfoundland : Geological Association of Canada
- Call Number
- 03.1 M26p
- Responsibility
- Edited by R. W. Macqueen
- Publisher
- St. John's, Newfoundland : Geological Association of Canada
- Published Date
- 2004
- Physical Description
- 217 pages
- Subjects
- Geology
- Geoscience
- Science
- Abstract
- Proud Heritage: People and Progress in Early Canadian Geoscience is a collection of articles from Geoscience Canada and its predecessor, highlighting the people and events which helped shape our geoscience history. -- From back cover
- Contents
- Partial content topics: Early geological contributors -- Geological pioneers, 19th century -- Geological leaders, 19th and 20th centuries -- Geological leaders, 20th century -- Early geological studies -- Short biographies
- ISBN
- 919216943
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 03.1 M26p
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Canada rocks : the geologic journey
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25671
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2007
- Author
- Eyles, Nick and Miall, Andrew
- Publisher
- Markham, Ontario : Fitzhenry and Whiteside Limited
- Call Number
- 03.1 E5c
- Publisher
- Markham, Ontario : Fitzhenry and Whiteside Limited
- Published Date
- 2007
- Physical Description
- 450 pages
- Subjects
- Geology
- Geoscience
- Abstract
- A complete overview of the geological formation of Canada covering four billion years.
- Contents
- 1. A hellish beginning -- 2. Moving earth : plate tectonics -- 3. The united plates of Canada : four billion years of tectonic activity 4. Canada's heartland : the shield -- 5. Giant seas cover the shield : the interior platform -- 6. Building Eastern Canada -- 7. Building Arctic Canada -- 8. Building Western Canada -- 9. Cool times : the ice sheets arrive -- 10. Rocky resouces : mining in Canada -- 11. Challenges for the future -- 12. Geology and the building of a Canadian identity
- ISBN
- 9781550418606
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 03.1 E5c
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An atlas of the world
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25563
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1925
- Author
- Philip, George
- Publisher
- London : Robert Riviére & Son
- Edition
- 15
- Call Number
- 03.1 P53a
- Author
- Philip, George
- Responsibility
- Ravenstein, E. G.
- Edition
- 15
- Publisher
- London : Robert Riviére & Son
- Published Date
- 1925
- Physical Description
- 94 pages
- Series
- The Reference Library
- Subjects
- Cartography
- Maps
- Atlases
- World
- World War I
- Contents
- Section I: Maps ; Section II: Descriptive and Statistical Notes and Index
- Notes
- The HANDY VOLUME ATLAS OF THE WORLD has long enjoyed a large measure of popularity as the most complete and accurate Compendium of Geographical Information of its size published. The evidence of this continued popularity lies in the fact that, since it was first produced under the Editorship of the eminent Geographer, the late Dr. E. G. Ravenstein, no fewer than fourteen large editions have been issued. In this, the FIFTEENTH EDITION, the present Editor has endeavoured to deserve a continuance of that popularity, by making the new issue of the Atlas a complete SURVEY of POST-WAR GEOGRAPHY, exhibiting, in their natural order, the territorial changes and political changes throughout the World effected by the Peace Treaties and Agreements following the Great War. -- Excerpt from Preface, p. v
- Accession Number
- 3069A
- Call Number
- 03.1 P53a
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The downfall of Temlaham
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25557
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1928
- Author
- Barbeau, Marius
- Publisher
- Toronto : The Macmillian Company of Canada Limited
- Call Number
- 07.2 B23t
- Author
- Barbeau, Marius
- Responsibility
- Illustations by A. Y. Jackson, Edwin H. Holgate, W. Langdon Kihn, Emily Carr and Annie D. Savage
- Publisher
- Toronto : The Macmillian Company of Canada Limited
- Published Date
- 1928
- Physical Description
- xii, 253 pages, 1 leaf color frontispiece, color plates 23 cm
- Abstract
- A novel based on the Skeena River Rebellion of 1886, interwoven with the Gitksan legend of Temlaham.
- Accession Number
- 3069A
- Call Number
- 07.2 B23t
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Fires of driftwood
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25550
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1922
- Author
- Ecclestone Mackay, Isabel
- Publisher
- Toronto : McClelland and Stewart
- Call Number
- 05.1 E2f
- Author
- Ecclestone Mackay, Isabel
- Responsibility
- With Decorations by J. E. H. Macdonald
- Publisher
- Toronto : McClelland and Stewart
- Published Date
- 1922
- Physical Description
- 139 pages ; 20 cm
- Subjects
- Poetry
- Abstract
- As the flames playing about the burning driftwood logs weave together many beautiful shades and colorings, so in this collection of verse, the author presents many delightful phases of fancy and imagination, skilful tone-colorings and word melodies. Mrs. Mackay has a sensitive ear for the music of words and an instinctive feeling for rhythm. She has both imagination and humor, and a keen appreciation of the wonderful and the beautiful. Many of the lyrics in this collection have a universal emotional appeal while others reproduce with accuracy and fidelity a distinctively Canadian background and atmosphere. The author's many admirers will eagerly welcome this volume. -- From interior dust jacket
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- 3069A
- Call Number
- 05.1 E2f
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Mythology of the North American indian and Inuit nations
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25547
- Published Date
- 2003
- Author
- Molyneaux, Brian L.
- Publisher
- London : Southwater Publishing
- Call Number
- 07.2 m73m
- Author
- Molyneaux, Brian L.
- Publisher
- London : Southwater Publishing
- Published Date
- 2003
- Physical Description
- 96 pages
- Abstract
- An authoritative and accessible guide to the vivid and enthralling myths and legends of the United States and Canada -- From the publisher
- Contents
- A-to-Z Myths and Legends of North America ; Transformation ; The Living Sky ; Landscapes of Memory ; Spirits of Earth ; The Dark Side ; The Trickster ; Death & Afterlife ; The Strangers ; New Gods ; New Mythologies
- Accession Number
- 2022.17
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- 07.2 m73m
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Gathering moss : a natural and cultural history of mosses
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25517
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2003
- Author
- Wall Kimmerer, Robin
- Publisher
- Corvallis, Oregon : Oregon State University Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 W14g
- Author
- Wall Kimmerer, Robin
- Publisher
- Corvallis, Oregon : Oregon State University Press
- Published Date
- 2003
- Physical Description
- viii, 168 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Mosses
- Indigenous
- History
- Nature
- Abstract
- Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering moss is a mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses. In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists alike to an understanding of how mosses live and how their lives are intertwined with the lives of countless other beings. Kimmerer explains the biology of mosses clearly and artfully, while at the same time reflecting on what these fascinating organisms have to teach us. Drawing on her experiences as a scientist, a mother, and a Native American, Kimmerer explains the stories of mosses in scientific terms as well as in the framework of indigenous ways of knowing. In her book, the natural history and cultural relationships of mosses become a powerful metaphor for ways of living in the world. -- From back cover
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- 0870714996
- Accession Number
- P2022.02
- Call Number
- 07.2 W14g
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First Peoples in Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25496
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2004
- Author
- McMillian, Alan D., Yellowhorn, Eldon
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre
- Call Number
- 07.2 M23f
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre
- Published Date
- 2004
- Physical Description
- x, 387 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous
- Anthropology
- Archaeology
- Abstract
- Aboriginal issues feature prominently on the Canadian agenda, from land claims agreements to self-government to resource rights, and First Peoples in Canada sets the context for the evolving relationship between Canada and the Aboriginal communities whitin its borders. This comprehensive book, widely used as a basic text in universities and colleges, now incorporates a Native perspective with new research from archaeology, anthropology, ethnography and history to tell the story of Aboriginal people from ancient times to the present. Generously illustrated with many maps, drawings and photographs, these pages clearly detail the rich cultures of all First Nations in this country. -- From back cover
- Contents
- Anthropological research and Aboriginal people ; The Atlantic Provinces ; The Iroquoians of the Eastern woodlands ; The Algonquians of the Eastern woodlands and Eastern Subarctic ; The Plains ; The Plateau ; The Northwest coast ; The Western Subarctic ; The Arctic ; The Metis ; Aboriginal people and Canada: emerging relations
- ISBN
- 9781553650539
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
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- 07.2 M23f
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Canadian Rockies geology road tours
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25499
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2009
- Author
- Gadd, Ben
- Publisher
- Jasper, AB : Corax Press
- Call Number
- 03.2 G11c c. 2
- Author
- Gadd, Ben
- Publisher
- Jasper, AB : Corax Press
- Published Date
- 2009
- Physical Description
- 576 pages : ill., maps
- Subjects
- Guidebooks
- Notes
- Includes index. On cover: The complete roadside guide: fossils, formations, folds and faults; presented in plain English; over 250 great stops; fully illustrated; works with odometer and GPS! Includes bibliogaphical references: p. 560-561.
- ISBN
- 9780969263128
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 03.2 G11c c. 2
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- Reading Room
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Climate change and landscape in the Canadian Rocky Mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25284
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Rutter, Nat
- Coppold, Murray
- Rokosh, Dean
- Publisher
- Field, B.C. : Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation
- Edition
- Revised Second Edition
- Call Number
- 03.2 R93c
- 03.2 R93c Reference copy
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- Responsibility
- The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation
- Nat Rutter
- Murray Coppold
- Dean Rokosh
- Edition
- Revised Second Edition
- Publisher
- Field, B.C. : Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- 137 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits
- Subjects
- Glaciers
- Climatology
- Climate change
- Environment
- Environmental conservation
- Geography
- Geology
- Abstract
- Climate change is at the forefront of public consciousness today. Political initiatives to combat the social and economic effects of changing climate will affect the lives of everyone. Media reports often portray climate scenarios and the range of uncertainty accompanying predictions. How does a reader approach the science behind the headlines? The goal of this book is to explain climate change science by examining the recent Ice Age history so spectacularly exposed in the Canadian Rocky Mountains landscape. Local and global sources of paleoclimate information are combined with dating techniques to unravel the glacial history of the Rockies over the last 30,000 years. The illustrated road log guide can be used by the armchair reader or the traveller to visit the landscape features essential to the interpretation. The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to increasing public understanding of the geosciences. Its teaching themes demonstrate the use of physics, biology, chemistry and mathematics in solving science questions and problems. The diverse program includes public lectures, teacher workshops, school programs and guided hikes. The Foundation conducts educational hikes to the Burgess Shale soft-bodied fossil deposit and the Mt. Stephen trilobite beds, both UNESCO World Heritage sites in Yoho National Park. (From Good Reads)
- Contents
- Introduction -- Archives of Climate Change -- Dating the Archives -- Extracting Climate Information -- Interpreting the Last Ice Age -- Finding Climate Change in the Rockies -- Glaciation in the Banff-Jasper Area -- Road Log Guide to Landscape Features -- Short Term Climate Change -- Future Climate Change -- Rood Log Stop Coordinates.
- Notes
- Sponsored by the CSPG Foundation
- ISBN
- 9780978013219
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 03.2 R93c
- 03.2 R93c Reference copy
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Thinking like a mountain
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25273
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2000
- Author
- Bateman, Robert
- Publisher
- Toronto : Viking
- Call Number
- 05.5 B31t
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- Author
- Bateman, Robert
- Responsibility
- Robert Bateman
- Publisher
- Toronto : Viking
- Published Date
- 2000
- Physical Description
- xi, 130 pages : illustrations
- Subjects
- Environment
- Literature
- Essays
- Authors
- Bateman, Robert
- Abstract
- Thinking Like a Mountain is the result of many years of thinking, talking and writing about the world's growing environmental crisis. Beautifully designed and illustrated with original drawings, it is a gathering of questions, observations and ideas Robert Bateman has drawn from his own life experiences and gleaned from the writings of some of the visionaries who have influenced him. As Einstein said, "We cannot solve the problems of today with the same thinking that gave us the problems in the first place."Only a profound shift in philosophy, Bateman believes, can save our species from extinction. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Preface
- Part One : Getting to know the neighbours
- Part Two : Message in the bones
- Part Three : Signs of hope
- More food for thought
- Acknowledgements
- ISBN
- 9780670893034
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 05.5 B31t
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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The story of modern skiing
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25260
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Fry, John
- Publisher
- Hanover : University Press of New England
- Call Number
- 01.5 F84t
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- Author
- Fry, John
- Responsibility
- John Fry
- Publisher
- Hanover : University Press of New England
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- xxii, 380 pages : illustrations, maps
- Abstract
- This is the definitive history of the sport that has exhilarated and infatuated about 30 million Americans and Canadians over the course of the last fifty years. Consummate insider John Fry chronicles the rise of a ski culture and every aspect of the sport’s development, including the emergence of the mega-resort and advances in equipment, technique, instruction, and competition. The Story of Modern Skiing is laced with revelations from the author’s personal relationships with skiing greats such as triple Olympic gold medalists Toni Sailer and Jean-Claude Killy, double gold medalist and environmental champion Andrea Mead Lawrence, first women’s World Cup winner Nancy Greene, World Alpine champion Billy Kidd, Sarajevo gold and silver medalists Phil and Steve Mahre, and industry pioneers such as Vail founder Pete Seibert, metal ski designer Howard Head, and plastic boot inventor Bob Lange. Fry writes authoritatively of alpine skiing in North America and Europe, of Nordic skiing, and of newer variations in the sport: freestyle skiing, snowboarding, and extreme skiing. He looks closely at skiing’s relationship to the environment, its portrayal in the media, and its response to social and economic change. Maps locating major resorts, records of ski champions, and a timeline, bibliography, glossary, and index of names and places make this the definitive work on modern skiing. Skiers of all ages and abilities will revel in this lively tale of their sport’s heritage. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- People and place -- Genesis -- A way of life -- From rope tow to resort -- Technique and equipment: partners in progress -- A revolution in equipment -- Technique: from stem to carve -- New ways to learn -- The story of alpine competition -- The world of alpine racing -- How skiing changed the Olympics -- Racing in America -- Diversity: new disciplines, old ones restored -- Cross-country -- Extremities -- Freestyle -- Snowboarding -- The culture and business of skiing -- "The industry" -- In print -- In movies, on television -- The new ski country.
- ISBN
- 9781584654896
- Accession Number
- P2020.08
- Call Number
- 01.5 F84t
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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