Our Bookshelf of Favourite Books

Nature and Environment

Canoe Country and Snowshoe Country by Florence Page Jaques (1938, 1944)

The North Runner by R. D. Lawrence (1979)

Diary of a Wilderness Dweller by Chris Czajkowski (2005)

The Geography of Hope by Chris Turner (2007)

A Country Year: Living the Questions by Sue Hubbell (1999)

Winterdance by Gary Paulson (2001)

Coming Into The Country by John McPhee (1976)

The Ethics of What We Eat by Peter Singer and Jim Mason (2007)

Running

Once A Runner by John L. Parker, Jr. (1978)

Marathon Woman by Karthrine Switzer (2007)

Staying the Course: A Runner's Toughest Race by Dick Beardsley (2004)

Bowerman and the Men of Oregon by Kenny Moore (2006)

Hills, Hawgs and Ho Chi Minh by Don Kardong (1996)

And Then the Vulture Eats You edited by John L. Parker, Jr (1990)

Running With The Buffaloes by Chris Lear (2003)

Fiction

Dog Walker  by Karen Spafford-Fitz (2006)

Fifth Business by Robertson Davies (1970)

The Brothers K by David James Duncan (1996)

Life of Pi  by Yann Martel (2002)