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Outdoor adventure has inspired some of the most exciting literary nonfiction of recent years, and explore has published exemplary models of the genre: Ian Brown on backcountry bonding in the Rockies, Adam Killick on surviving a hurricane at sea, and J. B. MacKinnon on overlanding in a war zone. Personal essays convey the taste of wild eel and the chill of a cotton tent at -28C; cautionary tales describe the death of glaciers and the deviant lifestyles of Atlantic salmon. These incredible stories of the great outdoors entertain, inform, and amaze.
Price: $16.99
Pages: 376
Publisher: Greystone Books
Imprint: Greystone Books
Publication Date:
01 August 2006
ISBN: 9781926812335
Format: eBook
James Little has written and edited for Canadian magazines for two decades. A former editor of Outdoor Canada, he has been the editor of explore since 2000. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Introduction
27 Funerals and a Wedding
Geoff Powter
Don’t Cry For Us, Argentina
David Zimmer
So This Is What It’s Like to Sail Through a Hurricane
Adam Killick
Hail to the Chief
J.B. MacKinnon
The Happy, Tormented Life of a Mountain Legend
Geoff Powter
¿Por Favor, Señor, Dondé Esta el Singletrack?
David Leach
The Ride of His Life
Mike Randolph
What Has Two Legs, 122 Teeth and Goes 80 Miles an Hour?
Ross Crockford
Behind the Grass Curtain
J.B. MacKinnon
Searching for Big Man Magik
Charles Montgomery
The Mystery of the Monolith
Andrew Struthers
On the Trail of Gulo Gulo
Mark Anderson
Some Funny Things Happened on the Way to the Caribou
Jake MacDonald
A Knight’s Trail
Mark Reynolds
The Man With Tunnel Vision
Mike Randolph
Out of the Hole
Bruce Ramsay
One Giant Leap…Maybe
Bruce Grierson
Gruelling, on a Summer Afternoon
Jerry Kobalenko
Who Has Seen the (Goddamn) Fish?
Mark Schatzker
Confessions of a Herpetologist
Leslie Anthony
In Search of the Giant Eel
Mike Randolph
The Wet Coast Trial
J.B. MacKinnon
The Boys and the Backcountry
Ian Brown
Into the Heart of Winter
Jill Frayne
The Mysterious Case of the Tahltan Bear Dog
Alisa Smith
Requiem for a Rare Bird
Wayne Grady
The Big Melt
Andrew Nikiforuk
The Story of Bear 99
Christie McLaren
Hammering Away at Eternity
Daniel Wood
Contributors
27 Funerals and a Wedding
Geoff Powter
Don’t Cry For Us, Argentina
David Zimmer
So This Is What It’s Like to Sail Through a Hurricane
Adam Killick
Hail to the Chief
J.B. MacKinnon
The Happy, Tormented Life of a Mountain Legend
Geoff Powter
¿Por Favor, Señor, Dondé Esta el Singletrack?
David Leach
The Ride of His Life
Mike Randolph
What Has Two Legs, 122 Teeth and Goes 80 Miles an Hour?
Ross Crockford
Behind the Grass Curtain
J.B. MacKinnon
Searching for Big Man Magik
Charles Montgomery
The Mystery of the Monolith
Andrew Struthers
On the Trail of Gulo Gulo
Mark Anderson
Some Funny Things Happened on the Way to the Caribou
Jake MacDonald
A Knight’s Trail
Mark Reynolds
The Man With Tunnel Vision
Mike Randolph
Out of the Hole
Bruce Ramsay
One Giant Leap…Maybe
Bruce Grierson
Gruelling, on a Summer Afternoon
Jerry Kobalenko
Who Has Seen the (Goddamn) Fish?
Mark Schatzker
Confessions of a Herpetologist
Leslie Anthony
In Search of the Giant Eel
Mike Randolph
The Wet Coast Trial
J.B. MacKinnon
The Boys and the Backcountry
Ian Brown
Into the Heart of Winter
Jill Frayne
The Mysterious Case of the Tahltan Bear Dog
Alisa Smith
Requiem for a Rare Bird
Wayne Grady
The Big Melt
Andrew Nikiforuk
The Story of Bear 99
Christie McLaren
Hammering Away at Eternity
Daniel Wood
Contributors