Skywatchers 09
Can$15.95
Author-Stan Shadick

Black holes, stars, planets, meteor showers, comets and galaxies are just part of what the night skies have to offer.
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The Man Who Saved Vancouver: Major James Skitt Matthews
Can$19.95
Author-Daphne Sleigh

Daphne Sleigh paints a vivid portrait of controversial archivist Major James Skitt Matthews in her impeccably researched look at this colourful character whose dedication, dogged persistence and guerrilla tactics were instrumental in preserving Vancouver's history.
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Heart of the Cariboo - Chilcotin: Three
Can$19.95
Edited by-Karla Decker

Another instalment in the story of British Columbia's Cariboo-Chilcotin region, this book is a delightful collection of spirited tales by the area's most talented authors, plus a couple of "outsiders."
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Yi Fao, Speaking Through Memory: A History of New Westminster's Chinese Community 1858-1980
Can$19.95
Authors-Jim Wolf & Patricia Owen

This is the fascinating and complex story of the Chinese-Canadian community in New Westminster, British Columbia, told in text and photographs that relate a range of individual experiences and stories.
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Country Roads of British Columbia: Exploring the Interior
Can$24.95
Author-Liz Bryan

In Country Roads of British Columbia, Liz Bryan explores and celebrates the amazing landscapes and traces the early history of Canada's westernmost province.
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Anchorages and Marine Parks: Updated & Revised
Can$29.95
Author-Peter Vassilopoulos

The photographs in this new edition of the popular cruising guide are now in full colour, the information has been updated, and GPS waypoints are included for destination anchorages and marine parks.
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Waggoner Cruising Guide 2008
Can$24.95
Author-Robert Hale

This bestselling annual guide provides complete information about the cruising waters in Puget Sound, San Juan Islands, the Inside Passage to Prince Rupert and the west coast of Vancouver Island.
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Havens in a Hectic World: Finding Sacred Places
Can$29.95
Author-Star Weiss

The frantic pace of our world leaves little time for reflection, and even less time to nurture our spirits. In this insightful book, Star Weiss explores the spiritual geography of the West Coast with individuals from a wide variety of faiths and cultural traditions.
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Those Earlier Hills: Reminiscences 1928 to 1961
Can$19.95
Author-R.M Patterson

Few men have been as set on isolated adventures and as passionate about the wild landscape of Canada as R.M. Patterson. He spent over 30 years in exploration, from northern rivers such as the Nahanni and the Liard, to the foothills of the Rockies, and he recorded his discoveries in vivid words and breathtaking photographs along the way.
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Following the Curve of Time: The Legendary M. Wylie Blanchet
Can$24.95
Author-Cathy Converse

Who was this skipper, this mother, this writer? These are the questions that motivated Cathy Converse to re-trace the route of famous pacific seafarer M. Wylie "Capi" Blanchet, and write this biography in the process.
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Death in a Family Way
Can$12.95
Author-Gwendolyn Southin

At age fifty, Margaret Spencer's empty nest and empty marriage prompt her to answer an ad for part-time office work at the office of private investigator Nat Southby. Suddenly, she is deep in the most unlikely of adventures for a woman in 1950s Vancouver, helping him with a case of missing young women involved in a shady business ring.
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In the Shadow of Death
Can$12.95
Author-Gwendolyn Southin

Just one year later, Margaret is coming into her own as an investigator, after leaving the comforts of her Kerrisdale home and her inattentive husband, a corporate lawyer. Living in trendy and bustling Kitsilano with Nat Southby, her newfound happiness is undercut by her family's pleadings to return home.
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Death on a Short Leash
Can$12.95
Author-Gwendolyn Southin

Back in Vancouver, Maggie and Nat begin their next adventure at a cranberry bog where a veterinarian's assistant has been found dead. A long trail with a faint scent to follow, their victim's double-life leads them to a strip club, a bogus religious sect, and a nursing home with a dark underlying secret.
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BAFFIN ISLAND: CLIMBING TREKKING & SKIING
Can$29.95
Author-Mark Synnott

Baffin Island, by world-renowned adventurer, filmmaker and writer Mark
Synnott, is the first comprehensive guide to Canada's largest island (fifth largest in the world), which is quickly becoming known as a premiere destination for adventure travellers and thrill-seekers alike.
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LIFE OF THE TRAIL 1: HISTORIC HIKES IN EASTERN BANFF NATIONAL PARK
Can$26.95
Authors-Emerson Sanford & Janice Sanford Beck

Life of the Trail is a fascinating new series which will guide today's hikers and armchair travellers through the stories of historic routes in the Canadian Rockies.
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LIFE OF THE TRAIL 2: HISTORIC HIKES IN NORTHERN YOHO NATIONAL PARK
Can$26.95
Authors-Emerson Sanford & Janice Sanford Beck

Life of the Trail 2: Historic Hikes in Northern Yoho National Park follows the trails of fur traders La Gasse and Le Blanc, the Palliser Expedition, Tom Wilson,
J.J. McArthur, Professor Jean Habel, Walter Wilcox, C.S. Thompson, David Thompson, Jimmy Simpson and Jack Brewster.
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POPULAR DAY HIKES 2: CANADIAN ROCKIES
Can$15.95
Author-Tony Daffern

Following upon the success of the first book in the "Popular Day Hikes" series - Gillean Daffern's
Popular Day Hikes 1: Kananaskis Country - Rocky Mountain Books is thrilled to offer this companion volume focusing upon the splendour of the Canadian Rockies.
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EXPLORING THE CASTLE: DISCOVERING THE BACKBONE OF THE WORLD IN SOUTHERN ALBERTA
Can$26.95
Author-Robert Kershaw

In 1901, naturalist George Bird Grinnell took note of an extensive network of mountains, ridges, valleys, lakes and rivers on both sides of the Continental Divide from northern Montana into southern British Columbia and Alberta.
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COASTAL BEAUTY: WILDFLOWERS AND FLOWERING SHRUBS OF COASTAL BRITISH COLUMBIA AND VANCOUVER ISLAND
Can$26.95
Author-Neil L. Jennings

Coastal Beauty and Central Beauty are follow-ups to three previous volumes on wildflowers written by Neil Jennings and published by Rocky Mountain Books. All five books include exceptional photographs and interesting information about each plant.
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CENTRAL BEAUTY: WILDFLOWERS AND FLOWERING SHRUBS OF THE SOUTHERN INTERIOR OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
Can$26.95
Author-Neil L. Jennings

Central Beauty explores the wildflowers and flowering shrubs commonly found in the portions of British Columbia typically known as the southern interior - very roughly an east/west line drawn through Williams Lake, B.C.
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MOUNTAIN CLASSICS COLLECTION 4: CLIMBS & EXPLORATION IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES
Can$22.95
Authors-Hugh E.M. Stutfield & J. Norman Collie

". . . years ago the Dominion of Canada, stretching as it does over thousands of miles,
covered with dense forests, watered by unnumbered rivers, and dotted over with countless
lakes, was a land in many places as difficult of access as Siberia; and its Rocky
Mountains, the back-bone of the continent, were almost unknown."
- Stutfield & Collie
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GPS MADE EASY - 5th EDITION: USING GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEMS IN THE OUTDOORS
Can$19.95
Authors-Lawrence Letham & Alex Letham

More than 200,000 copies sold!
This latest edition of GPS Made Easy has been revised to reflect the increased accuracy provided by WAAS, EGNOS, MSAS and NDGPS coverage, the availability of downloadable maps and the use of computers, PDAs and Pocket PCs with GPS receivers, the status of national GPS
systems, and the emergence of GPS and dead-reckoning technology.
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