July 21-23, Vancouver

A road trip getaway led to a few purchases this week, and a whole bunch of greatly needed relaxation. Much of that will be burnt away by this evening, I'm guessing, but it was the right idea anyway.

Macleod's Books - July 21 (where you get 20% off if you buy 5 or more)

• Don Gayton, Kokanee: The Redfish and the Kootenay Bioregion ($10 - Transmontanus)
• Celia Haig-Brown, Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School ($9)
• Roderick Haig-Brown, Timber ($10 - the 1946 Collins White Circle paperback edition, promising "rousing, roaring, untamed adventure" and with a hottie's face dominating the cover in front of three sketched male figures using pikes on floating timber logs)
• Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild ($8 - wonder if I have this one already...)
• Scott Russell Sanders, A Conservationist Manifesto ($10 - new in 2009, never been cracked)
• Scott Slovic, Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing: Henry Thoreau, Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, Barry Lopez ($10)
• Wallace Stegner, Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier ($7 - wonder if I have this one already...)
• JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings trilogy ($15 - hard to believe I didn't own copies of these)

Albion Books - July 21

• Don Gayton, Landscapes of the Interior: Re-Explorations of Nature and the Human Spirit ($9)
• Roderick Haig-Brown, Measure of the Year ($25 - hardcover with dust jacket)

Paper-Ya - July 22

• ed. Ellen Lupton, Indie Publishing: How to Design and Produce Your Own Book ($28.50 - from the Center for Design Thinking at the Maryland Institute College of Art)

Hager Books - July 22

• Taras Grescoe, Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood ($19.95)