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Acclaimed author Tom Wayman's account of his shift from urban to rural. The recent pandemic accelerated an existing trend among urban Canadians to move to the country. Yet to quote from a 2022 Globe and Mail article, "People from cities don't always realize what they're getting into." For anyone setting out in that direction, or dreaming of doing so, Tom Wayman's The Road to Appledore, or How I Went Back to the Land Without Ever Having Lived There in the First Place is rewarding reading.

A captivating journey blending memoir—history—and biography that takes the reader on one of the world's most famous trains and tells of carving the dramatic route it follows—while pondering other international railways through the eyes of travellers past and present. Rick Antonson has ridden trains in more than thirty-five countries—but almost everything he thinks he knows about train travel changes when he boards the Rocky Mountaineer with his ten-year-old grandson, Riley.

Pacific Palate is the expanded and updated edition of the ultimate guide to sourcing local, artisanal, gourmet food products on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands. In this expanded and updated edition, well-known food writer Don Genova presents the best food producers of Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, introducing readers to the many talented and passionate people and companies throughout the region—all working to promote a growing food culture.

Coastal historian Jeanette Taylor unveils the unique past of Twin Islands. Twin Islands form part of the lacey fringe at the southern edge of the Discovery Islands archipelago, where it meets the north Salish Sea. This is the interface between wilderness and urban settlement. To the north, heavily treed slopes rise vertically from the sea and fast tides churn through the constricted passages of a maze of islands and inlets. Navigating these waters is a white-knuckle challenge many recreational boaters avoid, ending their travels to the east in Desolation Sound Marine Park.

The international bestseller – A Times Best Memoir of 2023 – 'Grippingly vivid and pacey' – The Times – 'A seven-year-old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing' – Simon Winchester – 'A seven-year-old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing – a fantastic story of a truly Odyssean journey across all the world's great oceans – but is also the inspiring story of the developing of a restless and inquiring mind' – Simon Winchester – 'An astonishing almost day-by-day accoun

New York Times Bestseller – Winner of the 2024 National Outdoor Book Award in Outdoor Literature – Winner of the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction – Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, Air Mail, Smithsonian Magazine, and Financial Times. "A triumph. Fedarko doesn't describe awe; he induces it." – The New York Times Book Review – "Passionate...memorable...life-affirming." – The Wall Street Journal.

Bring nature into your home with the inspiring true story of hope and the healing powers of the natural world, in one of the most talked about books of the decade. From the million-copy bestselling author. 'This is what you need right now to muster hope and resilience . . . a beautiful story and a reminder that humans can endure adversity' — Stylist. 'A beautiful book, it really lives up to the hype . . . an enjoyable, gentle yet moving read' — Pandora Sykes on The High Low.

An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in a deluxe centennial edition. In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and quality of light, the pulse of its people. To reassure himself, he set out on a voyage of rediscovery of the American identity, accompanied by a distinguished French poodle named Charley; and riding in a three-quarter-ton pickup truck named Rocinante.

#1 New York Times Bestseller — A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life.

Winner of the 2014 National Outdoor Book Awards for History/Biography. Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, having survived a rattlesnake strike, two hurricanes, and a run-in with gangsters from Harlem, she stood atop Maine's Mount Katahdin.