Welcome to our catalogue
Our online book store features singles, books, and trail guides to popular and not so popular hiking places. The material can be purchased in traditional print, PDF and ePub formats.
Prince George Remembered, Interviews by Bridget Moran
This is a compilation of interviews with some of the local people who came to Prince George around the turn of the last century and contributed to the development of the city. It is by no means a complete list of people and for this Bridget apologizes in her introduction. The photos added to this edition are from the collection of Rod Duncan, the collection given to him by an early citizen of the area.
Nahanni: Then & Now
This account, of the geography and history of some of the mountainous country drained by the South Nahanni River, is based on Lougheed’s observations as a hiker and paddler, and on her thorough research — including interviews and correspondence with the people, and the descendants of the people, who made that history.
Available in print and Kindle editions
Kluane National Park Hiking Guide, 4th edition
This book will give you ideas and directions to possible trail heads that lead to routes for independent hikers to explore. Lougheed has been exploring the immense landscape of Kluane, along the edge of the Yukon’s St. Elias Range for about 25 years and considers it to be among the best hiking to be found…
From the Corner Table – selected columns
During his 40 years as a newspaper man, Pete Miller worked as a photographer, city editor and news editor at The Prince George Citizen and as the editor of the Quesnel Cariboo Observer. He wrote editorials, political analysis, reviews, science-fiction stories, travel articles and fishing columns. But it was Pete’s sense of humour and his delight in the use of language that have always made his stories appealing to all.
Sermon on the Mont: Louis Dudek’s Postmodernist Cantos
In 1967 McGill English prof Louis Dudek proposed bringing Ezra Pound to the World Poetry Conference at Expo….Dudek in 1949 visited Pound at St. Elizabeths insane asylum where the court had incarcerated him after accepting a plea of insanity during his trial for treason.
Truckstop Nights
Precoslky finds truck drivers to be unpleasant and inexcusably small-minded, at first. He goes on to say, “Think of the drivers, the poor drivers….spend Christmas Eve in the cabover in a parking lot in Nipigon
Donjek Glacier
This 100 kilometre hike is challenging to the most experienced hikers and leads you to one of the most breath-taking yet accessible glaciers on the planet.
Sidetracked
According to Dr David Raup, previous curator of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, this should be “required reading for all amateur fossil collectors and, especially the professionals.”
Shafted
For mystery lovers, this page turner that deals with murder and corruption set in the attractive mountain town of Smithers in British Columbia.
Cirque of the Unclimbables
For a challenging and difficult hike that should be done only by experienced backcountry, off-trail, wilderness hikers, this is the place.
The English Department of the Spirit
Comprehensive and often humorous account of literature in the Western World.
Kluane Saga
Lougheed and Faubian describe an attempted meet-up near in the vast but remote area of the Donjek Glacier in Canada’s Yukon Territory.
Diary of a Lake
Glacier Lake and the Cirque of the Unclimbables in Canada’s Nahanni National Park has been a draw for scientists and adventurers for almost a century. “Diary” tells of its early scientists and climbers.
Forbidden Mountains
Vivien Lougheed took the ultimate journey through Tibet while hiding from the Chinese police and military.
Tungsten John
Heeding the call of the South Nahanni River, John Harris and Vivien Lougheed mounted four expeditions – by bicycle, foot and the occasional crew-cab pick-up – into the glorious, treacherous terrain that surrounds this spectacular waterway and its system of lakes.
42 Years in the Realm of the Czar & the Soviets
Rasputin modelled for Miss Krarup for twelve different portraits. She gives us a new and captivating picture of the Siberian peasant who became the imperial family’s confidant and Russia’s real ruler.