NORTHWEST PASSAGES

Author:  Bruce Calhoun

Contents:  Puget Sound Area, San Juan Islands, Canadian Gulf Islands, British Columbia Favourites, The Inland Empire and Other Stories, Selected Stories by Other Authors.

WILDERNESS DAYS

Author:  Sigurd F. Olson

In the evocative words of one of America’s best-loved authors about nature, and in 56 beautiful photographs, this book crystallizes the very essence of that magnificent wilderness with which its author is so deeply identified.  In it he has culled from his writings those moments that most vividly summon up the turn of the seasons in the great woodlands and waters of the fabled Quetico-Superior region overlapping the Ontario-Minnesota border.

THE TALLPECS OF ALBERTA AND SASKATCHEWAN

Author:  Harry Palmer

History of Alberta and Saskatchewan with photographs.

MEN SHIPS and the SEA

Author:  Captain Alan Villiers

Captain Alan Villiers takes you to sea in the pages of this rich and stirring book.  From the raft that freed primitive man from the fetters of the land down to the nuclear ship that opens new horizons to questing mankind, you follow the development of ships and the cultures they nourished.

ETRUSCANS: ITALY’S LOVERS OF LIFE

By the Editors of Time Life  Books

Contents:  

1.  Discovering the First Italians

2.  Happy Idyll in Etruscan History

3.  Rhythms and Delights of the Good Life

4.  The Darker Side of a Proud People

AUSTRALIA – A MAGNIFICENT COUNTRY

Author:  Jocelyn Burt

This superb collection of photographs, complemented by an informative text, is the culmination of Jocelyn Burt’s travels all over Australia – to well-known beauty spots as well as to more remote areas like Sturt’s Stony Desert, the Birds Isle district and the Hamersley Range in the north-west of the continent.