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Lands of lost borders : a journey on the Silk Road
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25039
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Harris, Kate
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
- Edition
- First U.S. edition
- Call Number
- G530 L36 H37
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- Author
- Harris, Kate
- Edition
- First U.S. edition
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 305 pages : illustrations, map
- Abstract
- As a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she most craved—that of a generalist explorer, equal parts swashbuckler and metaphysician—had gone extinct. From her small-town home in Ontario, it seemed as if Marco Polo, Magellan and their like had long ago mapped the whole earth. So she vowed to become a scientist and go to Mars. Well along this path, Harris set off by bicycle down a short section of the fabled Silk Road with her childhood friend Mel Yule. This trip was just a simulacrum of exploration, she thought, not the thing itself—a little adventure to pass the time until she could launch for outer space. But somewhere in between sneaking illegally across Tibet, studying the history of science and exploration at Oxford, and staring down a microscope for a doctorate at MIT, she realized that an explorer, in any day and age, is by definition the kind of person who refuses to live between the lines. Forget charting maps, naming peaks, leaving footprints on another planet: what she yearned for was the feeling of soaring completely out of bounds. And where she'd felt that most intensely was on a bicycle, on a bygone trading route. So Harris quit the laboratory and hit the Silk Road again with Yule, this time determined to bike it from beginning to end. Weaving adventure and deep reflection with the history of science and exploration, Lands of Lost Borders explores the nature of limits and the wildness of a world that, like the self and like the stars, can never be fully mapped. (from Kate Harris' website)
- Contents
- Marco made me do it: North America -- Roof of the world: Tibetan Plateau -- Natural history: England and New England -- Undercurrents: Black Sea -- The cold world awakens: Lesser Caucasus -- Angle of incidence: Greater Caucasus -- Borderlandia: Caspian Sea -- Wilderness/wasteland: Ustyurt Plateau and Aral Sea Basin -- The source of a river: Pamir Knot -- A mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam: Tarim Basin and Tibetan Plateau -- Road's end: Indo-Gangetic Plain and Greater Himalaya.
- Notes
- Banff Mountain Film Festival 2018 finalist for Adventure Travel
- ISBN
- 9780062839343
- Accession Number
- AC639
- Call Number
- G530 L36 H37
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Kate Harris' website including publication information
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Leading the way : it's the ultimate question for many women, yet not all spend their working hours hanging off mountains and helicopter slings - how does motherhood fit in the picture for a mountain guide?
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19821
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- May 2019
- Author
- Martel, Lynn
- Publisher
- Crowfoot Media
- Call Number
- P
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- Author
- Martel, Lynn
- Publisher
- Crowfoot Media
- Published Date
- May 2019
- Physical Description
- p.76-81
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Mountain guides
- Women
- Abstract
- Pertains to how more Assocation of Canadian Mountain Guides (ACMG) and International Federation of Mountain Guides Association (IFMGA) members who are women are also mothers - with a focus specifically on the experiences of Lilla Molnar, Lisa Paulson, Erica Roles, and Alison Andrews.
- Notes
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.04, May 2019
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Website for Crowfoot Media - publishers of Canadian Rockies Annual
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Madam Chancellor - Calgarian Grit McCreath on her new role at the University of Saskatchewan
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25129
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- January 2020
- Author
- Darbyshire, Melanie
- Publisher
- Business in Calgary
- Call Number
- P - General
1 website
- Author
- Darbyshire, Melanie
- Responsibility
- Melanie Darbyshire
- Publisher
- Business in Calgary
- Published Date
- January 2020
- Physical Description
- p. 28 - 30
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Abstract
- Pertains to the appointment of Whyte Foundation board member Grit McCreath as the 16th Chancellor at the University of Saskatchewan
- Notes
- In Business Calgary, January 2020, p. 28-30
- Call Number
- P - General
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Available online via Business in Calgary website
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Our trip around the world
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25248
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Belczyk, Renate
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.
- Call Number
- 02 B41o
1 website
- Author
- Belczyk, Renate
- Responsibility
- Renate Belczyk
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 208 pages
- Abstract
- A spirited 1950s travelogue that takes the reader around the world during a time when two independent young women travelling alone was considered almost revolutionary. Renate Belczyk was born in Dresden, Germany, in 1932. When she was three years old her family moved to Berlin, where they settled into a small apartment building on the outskirts of the city. It was in this building that she met another adventurous girl, Sigrid, with whom she would travel around the world as young women after the Second World War. Having spent most of their childhood and teenage years climbing trees, swimming, cycling, hiking, and adventuring around Germany the two young women attended a talk by the German writer Heinrich Böll. During his presentation the renowned author suggested to the crowd that they all travel to different countries and make friends with the locals whenever they could, as this would help prevent another war. Renate and Sigrid took this advice to heart, and from that point their adventures together took flight. Starting in 1955 and travelling for three years to England, France, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Canada, Japan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Egypt, Turkey, Macedonia, and Greece, their adventures together culminated with their joint return to Germany in 1958. In 1959 Renate returned to the Canadian Rockies to work in the backcountry, and in 1960 she married mountaineer Felix Belczyk and settled in Castlegar, BC, where they raised three children. Our Trip Around the World is an endearing snapshot of the postwar era when adventure travel – mountaineering, hiking, hitchhiking, and cycling – was enticing those with adventurous spirits to experience the world like never before. (From publisher's website)
- Contents
- Cover -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Early Years -- Chapter 2: Mexico, 1955-56 -- July 1955 -- September 1955 -- October 1955 -- November 1955 -- December 1955 -- January 1956 -- February 1956 -- March 1956 -- April 1956 -- May 1956 -- June-July 1956 -- Chapter 3: Canada, 1956-57 -- July 1956 -- August 1956 -- September 1956 -- Winter 1956-57 -- Spring 1957 -- May 1957 -- Chapter 4: Japan, 1957 -- May to October, 1957 -- June 1957 -- July 1957 -- Photo Section -- September 1957 -- October 1957 -- Chapter 5: India and Nepal, 1957-58 October 1957 -- November 1957 -- December 1957 -- January 1958 -- Chapter 6: Egypt, Turkey, Greece and Home, 1958 -- February 1958 -- March 1958 -- April 1958 -- May 1958 -- Afterword: A Life of Travel
- ISBN
- 9781771603775
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 02 B41o
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Author
- Ashoona, Pitseolak
- Publisher
- West-Baffin Eskimo Co-operative ; Cape Dorset, N.W.T
- Call Number
- 06.1 As3p
1 website
- Author
- Ashoona, Pitseolak
- Responsibility
- Pitseolak, Ashoona
- Publisher
- West-Baffin Eskimo Co-operative ; Cape Dorset, N.W.T
- Physical Description
- [28] pages illustrations
- Subjects
- Inuit
- Subjects
- Eskimo Art
- Art
- Graphic arts
- Women artists
- Abstract
- Pertains to Pitseolak Ashoona, a Nunatsiarmiut artist who resided in Cape Dorset. She was a prolific graphic artist and contributed extensively to the creation of Indigenous art.
- Notes
- Book is in both French and English.
- Prepared and circulated by the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs in co-operation with the West-Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
- Accession Number
- 2019.46
- Call Number
- 06.1 As3p
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- URL pertains to an online resource focused on Pitseolak Ashoona and her life
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Pourin' down rain : a Black woman claims her place in the Canadian West
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25245
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Author
- Foggo, Cheryl
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta : Brush Education Inc.
- Edition
- 30th anniversary edition. Second edition.
- Call Number
- 08.1 F68p
1 website
- Author
- Foggo, Cheryl
- Responsibility
- Cheryl Foggo
- Edition
- 30th anniversary edition. Second edition.
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta : Brush Education Inc.
- Physical Description
- x, 118 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, genealogical table
- Subjects
- History
- History-Canada
- Canada
- Racism
- Women
- Abstract
- First published in 1990, Pourin' Down Rain is a coming-of-age memoir about growing up in prairie communities with small Black populations. It thematizes the family, civil rights, and the learned art of Black Canadian storytelling. She drew much of the material from an unpublished manuscript called "The Story of My Father's Life," written by Daisy Smith Mayes Williams, Foggo's grandfather's sister. This manuscript remains in Foggo's personal archive. Pourin' Down Rain was a finalist for the Alberta Culture Non-Fiction Prize in 1990. A revised and updated 30th anniversary edition of Pourin' Down Rain is going to be released in 2020 by Brush Education and an audiobook is being released by ECW press as part of its Bespoke series of Canadian classics (From publisher's website)
- ISBN
- 9781550598339
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 08.1 F68p
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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Rising : becoming the first Canadian woman to summit Everest : a memoir
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25250
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Wood, Sharon
- Publisher
- Madeira Park, BC : Douglas & MacIntyre
- Edition
- 1st
- Call Number
- 01.1 W85r
1 website
- Author
- Wood, Sharon
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Madeira Park, BC : Douglas & MacIntyre
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- xi, 228 pages : colour illustrations
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Biography
- Women
- Everest, Mount
- Abstract
- In 1986, as part of a Canadian team, Sharon Wood became the first woman from the Americas to summit Mount Everest—and the first woman in the world to do so via the West Ridge from Tibet and without Sherpa support. But it’s how she got there that is truly compelling. In Rising, the personal motivation that drove Wood to reach further and further heights are detailed through the years leading up to the career-defining climb. Often the only woman on expeditions, Wood was an outlier in a predominantly male bastion of high altitude alpine climbing. Against the backdrop of the stunning Himalayan mountains in the days before Everest became as commercialized as it is today, Wood explores the camaraderie and rivalry, the relatable challenges of falling in and out of love, and how she kept her drive to persevere. Subsequently, she recounts how she struggled with unexpected acclaim and expectations following her ascent of Everest, but ultimately found fulfilment and her place in the world. As she tells her story today, her perspective is steeped in six decades of life experience rich with adrenalin, change, reflection and humility. It is a tale that still feels poignantly relevant—a testament to the strength of the human spirit to overcome all obstacles, whether mountain peaks, social expectations or self-imposed barriers. (from Douglas & McIntyre website)
- Contents
- Preface -- Part 1. 1. The promise -- 2. Neighbours -- 3. Friends, nomads and spirits -- 4. Rescue -- 5. Weight -- 6. The power of story -- 7. Redemption -- 8. One hundred trips -- 9. Proving grounds -- 10. Mentors and muses -- 11. Shit, grin and yin -- 12. Ya gotta want it -- 13. Small plans -- 14. The meeting -- 15. Glory or death -- 16. Commitment -- 17. Summit day -- Part 2. 18. Into the dark -- 19. Coming down -- 20. Lost -- 21. On stage, off stage -- 22. Reunion.
- Notes
- Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2019 finalist for Mountain Literature (non-fiction)
- ISBN
- 9781771622257
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 01.1 W85r
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Summary on Douglas & McIntyre website
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Rising : becoming the first Canadian woman to summit Everest : a memoir
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25043
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Wood, Sharon
- Publisher
- Madeira Park, BC : Douglas & MacIntyre
- Edition
- 1st
- Call Number
- G512 R57 W66
1 website
- Author
- Wood, Sharon
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Madeira Park, BC : Douglas & MacIntyre
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- xi, 228 pages : colour illustrations
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Biography
- Women
- Everest, Mount
- Abstract
- In 1986, as part of a Canadian team, Sharon Wood became the first woman from the Americas to summit Mount Everest—and the first woman in the world to do so via the West Ridge from Tibet and without Sherpa support. But it’s how she got there that is truly compelling. In Rising, the personal motivation that drove Wood to reach further and further heights are detailed through the years leading up to the career-defining climb. Often the only woman on expeditions, Wood was an outlier in a predominantly male bastion of high altitude alpine climbing. Against the backdrop of the stunning Himalayan mountains in the days before Everest became as commercialized as it is today, Wood explores the camaraderie and rivalry, the relatable challenges of falling in and out of love, and how she kept her drive to persevere. Subsequently, she recounts how she struggled with unexpected acclaim and expectations following her ascent of Everest, but ultimately found fulfilment and her place in the world. As she tells her story today, her perspective is steeped in six decades of life experience rich with adrenalin, change, reflection and humility. It is a tale that still feels poignantly relevant—a testament to the strength of the human spirit to overcome all obstacles, whether mountain peaks, social expectations or self-imposed barriers. (from Douglas & McIntyre website)
- Contents
- Preface -- Part 1. 1. The promise -- 2. Neighbours -- 3. Friends, nomads and spirits -- 4. Rescue -- 5. Weight -- 6. The power of story -- 7. Redemption -- 8. One hundred trips -- 9. Proving grounds -- 10. Mentors and muses -- 11. Shit, grin and yin -- 12. Ya gotta want it -- 13. Small plans -- 14. The meeting -- 15. Glory or death -- 16. Commitment -- 17. Summit day -- Part 2. 18. Into the dark -- 19. Coming down -- 20. Lost -- 21. On stage, off stage -- 22. Reunion.
- Notes
- Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2019 finalist for Mountain Literature (non-fiction)
- ISBN
- 9781771622257
- Accession Number
- AC639
- Call Number
- G512 R57 W66
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Summary on Douglas & McIntyre website
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Sharon Wood : the Canadian mountain climber talks about her new book and life after summiting Mount Everest
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24944
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Rosano, Michela
- Publisher
- Canadian Geographic
- Call Number
- P
1 website
- Author
- Rosano, Michela
- Responsibility
- Michela Rosano
- Publisher
- Canadian Geographic
- Published Date
- 2019
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Abstract
- Pertains to mountain climber and author Sharon Wood and her experience as the first North American woman to summit Mount Everest in 1986 as interviewed by Michela Rosano
- Notes
- In Canadian Geographic, Volume 139, No. 5, September-October 2019, p. 15-16
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- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- October/November 2019 Canadian Geographic magazine
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A timeless Legacy: Women Artists of Glacier National park
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19838
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Ivy, Tabby, Ed Gillenwater, Denny Kellogg and Elizabeth Moss
- Publisher
- Kalispell, MT : Hockaday Museum of Art
- Call Number
- 06.1 Iv9a
1 website
- Responsibility
- Tabby Ivy, Ed Gillenwater, Denny Kellogg and Elizabeth Moss
- Publisher
- Kalispell, MT : Hockaday Museum of Art
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 66 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
- Subjects
- Women artists
- Art
- Abstract
- Pertains to the paintings of Glacier National Park completed by various women. While celebrating the contribution of early settler women, the book also recognizes the work of current women who continue to capture the landscape of Glacier National Park in their art work. Contains both photos and biographies of influential women in both the past, and present who had involvement in Glacier National Park.
- Contents
- Foreward -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- A timeless land -- The birth of a legacy -- Nellie Augusta Knopf (1875-1962) -- Kathryn Woodman Leighton (1875-1952) -- Elsa Laubach Jemne (1888-1974) -- Caroline Gibbons Granger (1889-1949) -- Elizabeth Davey Lochrie (1890-1981) -- Lucile Van Slyck (1898-1982) -- Merle Fisk Olson (1910-1999) -- Celebrating the legacy -- Linda Tippetts -- Carole Cooke -- Kathryn Stats -- Rachel Warner -- Continuing the legacy.
- Notes
- DVD available with the book
- Accession Number
- 2019.46
- Call Number
- 06.1 Iv9a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- The URL is connected to the Hockaday Museum of Art in which the exhibition was displayed. Offers an insight into the motive and meaning behind the exhibition.
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