May 15, Times-Colonist book sale
Yet another fine day at the Times-Colonist book sale, proving again how much can be accomplished in a limited amount of time, this year for a total of $84:
- ed. Ian G. Barto, Western Man and Environmental Ethics
- Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity
- BBC Natural History Unit, Wildlife Through the Camera (eco-porn! eco-porn!)
- Thomas Berry, The Great Work: Our Way into the Future
- Daniel Botkin, Discordant Harmonies: A New Ecology for the Twenty-First Century
- Kathryn Bridge, A Passion for Mountains: The Lives of Don and Phyllis Munday
- ed. David Brower, Grand Canyon of the Living Colorado (another early Sierra Club coffee-table book)
- Gerry Burch & John Parminter, Frederick Davison Mulholland, P.Eng, BCRF: The Father of Sustained Yield Forestry in British Columbia (catchy title, boys)
- Capt. H.L. Cadieux & Garth Griffiths, Dogwood Fleet: The Story of the British Columbia Ferry Authority from 1958 (very earnest stuff)
- Canadian Literature no.124-125 (spring-summer, 1990): “Native Writers & Canadian Literature”
- Canon, Wildlife as Canon Sees It: A Photographic Heritage for All Generations (yep, more eco-porn, but from National Geographic rather than the BBC)
- Fritjof Capra, The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems
- Donovan Clemson, Backroad Adventures through Interior British Columbia (an absolute classic)
- ed. Elroy Deimert, The Boreal Factor (an unusual-seeming anthology, including stories from Lee Maracle and Thomas Wharton)
- ed. Bill Devall, Clearcut: The Tragedy of Industrial Forestry (a recent and very large format coffee-table book from the Sierra Club)
- William O. Douglas, My Wilderness: East to Katahdin
- ed. M.A. Fenger, E.H. Miller, J.F. Johnson, & E.J.R. Williams, Our Living Legacy: Proceedings of a Symposium on Biological Diversity (form the Royal BC Museum, bless 'em)
- ed. Gary Geddes, Skookum Wawa: Writings of the Canadian Northwest (two copies, because that's how useful it is)
- Terry Glavin, Nemiah: The Unconquered Country
- Herb Hammond, Seeing the Forest among the Trees: The Case for Wholistic Forest Use
- William Hillen, Blackwater River (because I think it's where Ken Belford used to live)
- Thomas Kohnstamm, Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?: A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics, and Professional Hedonism
- Theodora Kroeber, Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America
- sel. John Lane & Maya Kumar Mitchell, Only Connect: Soil, Soul, Society: The Best of Resurgence Magazine, 1990-1999
- ed. Andrea Pinto Lebowitz, Living in Harmony: Nature Writing by Women in Canada
- Ken Liddell, This Is British Columbia
- Ruth Loomis with Merv Wilkinson, Wildwood: A Forest for the Future
- Ian MacAskie, The Long Beaches: A Voyage in Search of the North Pacific Fur Seal
- Mary Midgley, Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature
- ed. Allan Murray, Our Wildlife Heritage: 100 Years of Wildlife Management (love the ownership in the phrasing)
- David W. Orr, Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect
- Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
- Jan Peterson, Cathedral Grove (MacMillan Park)
- Jay Ruzesky, Blue Himalayan Poppies
- Greg Sarris, Keeping Slug Woman Alive: A Holistic Approach to American Indian Texts
- Keith Thomas, Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England, 1500-1800
- Margaret Thompson, Adrift on the Ark: Our Connection to the Natural World
- Patricia Van Tighem, The Bear’s Embrace: A True Story of Surviving a Grizzly Bear Attack (whoa, and also ouch)
- Joan Ward-Harris, More than Meets the Eye: The Life and Lore of Western Wildflowers
Comments
Theresa K.
Good on you for the finds, Naomi. Mine were better than yours, though. :-)
Theresa K. (who dates herself with this posting, I suspect)