Notes from the Century Before, A Journal from British Columbia  •  Edward Hoagland  •  Jon Krakauer TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2002 •  PAPER  • 304 PAGES • COMING IN A classic portrait of a disappearing way of life in Northwest British Columbia. In 1966, Hoagland spent three months in the backcountry chatting up the locals. His essays introduce a lively cast of old-timers and capture the essence of a way of life quickly slipping away. First published in 1969. (CND189, $13.95)
Driftwood Valley, A Woman Naturalist in the Northern Wilderness  •  Theodora Stanwell-Fletcher  •  Wendell Berry NATURAL HISTORY •  2003 •  PAPER  • 352 PAGES • COMING IN A classic account of pioneer life and the natural history of British Columbia, originally published in 1946 and thankfully returned to print. The estimable Wendell Berry provides an introduction to this edition. The author is not only an excellent writer (the book won the John Burroughs medal) but also earned her a doctorate in animal ecology (one of the first from Cornell). With animal illustrations by her husband John, photographs, and a list of plants and animals in the area. Stanwell-Fletcher spent three years in the wilderness of north-central British Columbia at a cabin that they built on a lake. Enchanted with the wild places, she also wrote Tundra World and Clear Lands and Icy Seas, A Voyage to the Eastern Arctic. (PNW148, $18.95)
Atlantic Ocean Map  •  National Geographic MAP • COMING IN A handsome poster showing the bathymetry of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the entire Atlantic from Canada and Greenland to Europe, Tierra del Fuego and Africa. A product of National Geographic, it shows underwater features in striking 3-D relief. (OCE34, $14.99)
Men for the Mountains  •  Sid Marty BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  1996 •  PAPER  • 270 PAGES • COMING IN A classic by a native Albertan and park warden in the Canadian Rockies, this memoir captures the immense landscapes of Alberta and the rugged way of life in the West. First published in 1978. (CND11, $18.95)
Seabirds of the World, A Photographic Guide  •  Peter Harrison FIELD GUIDE •  1996 •  PAPER  • 317 PAGES • COMING IN A field edition of Harrison's definitive seabird identification guide, featuring 740 color photographs. It illustrates all the world's seabirds, many in a variety of plumages. The book also contains a convenient key to identifying the confusing albatrosses, petrels and other tubenoses, as well as range maps and information about habitats and distribution. This is the book that you'd carry on any sea voyage; our ten-year-old edition has been everywhere. (FG16, $29.95)