Books

A Field Guide to Common Fishes of the Pacific Northwest

The waters of the Pacific Northwest are home to some of the most unique and diverse marine creatures in the world, including rockfishes, greenlings and, of course, salmon. This full-colour brochure is packed with information on seventy-eight "must-have"...

Raven Brings the Light

In a time when darkness covered the land, a boy named Weget is born who is destined to bring the light. With the gift of a raven's skin that allows him to fly as well as transform, Weget turns into a bird and journeys from Haida Gwaii into the sky. There...

Orca Chief

Orca Chiefis the third in a series of Northwest Coast legends by Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd. Their previous collaborations,Raven Brings the Light(2013) andCloudwalker(2014), are award-winning national bestsellers.Thousands of years ago in the...

A Field Guide to Alpine Flowers of the Pacific Northwest

This portable 8-fold guide is the perfect companion to Phillipa Hudson's easy-to-use Coastal Flowers of the Pacific Northwest, and features 112 spectacular photos of flowers found from the mid to alpine elevations on Vancouver Island and the Coast...

A Field Guide to Edible Fruits and Berries of the Pacific Northwest

If wild berry foragers followed vague advice such as "berries of red and you'll soon be dead" or "berries of blue will do harm to you" imagine how many of nature's delicacies would be passed by! On the other hand, for anyone who has thought twice before...

A Field Guide to Edible Mushrooms of California (Folding Pocket Guide)

Mushroom expert Daniel Winkler has returned with another easy-to-use field guide to help hunters track down their favourite fungi in California! Use this region-specific guide to identify over thirty common and easily-recognized edible mushrooms—and...

A Field Guide to Gemstones of the Pacific Northwest (Folding Pocket Guide)

This full-colour, laminated field guide is your introduction to the beauty and wonder of the gemstones found in the Pacific Northwest, a region famous for its variety and quality of earth treasures. From purple amethyst, carnelian, chalcedony, black and...

A Field Guide to Birds of the Pacific Northwest (Folding Pocket Guide)

Do you know a tanager from a towhee? A goatsucker from a grosbeak? Here, after much demand, is a portable 8-fold guide featuring 112 photos of the common birds found in coastal areas of Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Alaska. Each species is...

A Field Guide to Edible Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest (Folding Pocket Guide)

A Field Guide to Edible Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest is a pocket-sized guide with full-colour photographs of mushrooms from Pacific Northwest trails and roadsides, forests and lawns. With this guide, identify over thirty common and...

Juan de Fuca's Strait: Voyages in the Waterway of Forgotten Dreams

From internationally recognized author and historian Barry Gough, here is another riveting history of exploration on the high seas. . The tale begins in sixteenth-century Venice, when explorer Juan de Fuca encountered English merchant Michael Lok and...

Gubby Builds a Boat

This follow-up to the bestselling book Fishing with Gubby (Harbour Publishing, 2010) continues the adventures of Gubby, a commercial salmon fisherman, who heads home to his village on the Sunshine Coast at the end of another long season. His beloved old...

A Field Guide to Trees of the Pacific Northwest (Folding Pocket Guide)

This laminated guide features twenty-six native trees commonly found from Alaska to Oregon, providing common and Latin names accompanied by colour photographs of identifying features such as bark, leaves or needles, flowers, cones, seeds and fruit...