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In 1988, Chris Czajkowski walked into British Columbia's Central Coast Mountains to build a homestead, a business, and a life.

Pan Phillips and Rich Hobson founded some of the most isolated ranches in North America.

In 2002 a young killer whale was discovered alone in Puget Sound. A team of scientists transported "Springer" north where she rejoined her family.

M. Wylie Blanchet's book "The Curve of Time", introduced an adventurous woman who cruised the coast in a 25-foot boat with her five children and their dog.

In 1808, seeking a route to the western sea, Simon Fraser descended the great river that now bears his name. Stephen Hume followed in Fraser's footsteps for four years.

A compilation of 12 cover stories first presented in the pages of the "Vancouver Courier".

Here you will encounter gamblers, adventurers, conmen, and liars. Scalawags, the lot of them. But not all adventurers, conmen, and gamblers are scalawags.

Gabor Mate, a doctor who himself has Attention Deficit Disorder, offers a completely new perspective on ADD, as well as hope and advice for those living with the challenges ADD presents.

"A heartfelt celebration of the flying life." -The New York Times. When Clyde Edgerton was four years old, his mother took him to the local airport to see the planes.

Is suicide hereditary? Does it run in families? When three brothers end their lives, is it an ill-fated coincidence or an underlying symptom?

Seventeen-year-old Arin Andrews shares all the hilarious, painful, and poignant details of undergoing gender reassignment as a high school student in this winning memoir.

This cutting-edge guide not only shows how AI is transforming our careers, lives, businesses, and more, but also provides easy, actionable steps to make AI work for us.

The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from "regional backwater" to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now.

"Julia Alvarez has suitcases full of history (public and private), trunks full of insights into what it means to be a Latina in the United States, bags full of literary wisdom." -Los Ange

Winner of the Popular Medicine Book of the Year 2018, BMA Book Awards. Running Awards 2019 – Top Book.