The Chinook Wind East of the Canadian Rookies
Title | The Chinook Wind East of the Canadian Rookies PDF eBook |
Author | H. L. Osmond |
Publisher | |
Pages | 16 |
Release | 1941 |
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Leaning on the Wind
Title | Leaning on the Wind PDF eBook |
Author | Sid Marty |
Publisher | Heritage House Publishing Co |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2011-02-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 192693671X |
A finalist for the 1995 Governor General's Literary Award for English-language non-fiction Winner of the Mountain Environment and Culture Award at the 1995 Banff Mountain Book Festival Leaning on the Wind is a love song of the west, sung to the tune of the wild chinook wind. Sid Marty skilfully weaves together the prehistory of Alberta with the experiences of First Nations, miners, early homesteaders and his own family. At the centre of his tale is the Marty homestead, located in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Sid looks back through generations of his family and celebrates the feats of wild creatures and wild westerners. The past comes alive in these pages, but so does the present, where you will meet cowboy poets, bull riders, sailplane pilots, desperate chicken farmers, curmudgeonly broncos, a homicidal cow elk, some dubious politicians and several fierce defenders of the earth. Humour and sardonic wit abound, along with abundant affection for the western earth and the people who depend on its bounties and experience its extremes of wind, frost and drought. A western classic, Leaning on the Wind is as evocative today as when it was first published in 1995.
Mountain Weather and Climate
Title | Mountain Weather and Climate PDF eBook |
Author | Roger G. Barry |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2013-09-05 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1134910959 |
This book provides a comprehensive text describing and explaining mountain weather and climate processes. It presents the results of a broad range of studies drawn from across the world. The book is useful for specialist courses in climatology as well as for scientists in related disciplines.
Glaciers of the Canadian Rockies and Selkirks
Title | Glaciers of the Canadian Rockies and Selkirks PDF eBook |
Author | William Hittell Sherzer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Glaciers |
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Handbook of the Canadian Rockies
Title | Handbook of the Canadian Rockies PDF eBook |
Author | Ben Gadd |
Publisher | Jasper, Alta. : Corax Press |
Pages | 848 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.) |
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MANUAL OF METEOROLOGY
Title | MANUAL OF METEOROLOGY PDF eBook |
Author | SIR NAPIER SHAW SC. D., F.R.S. |
Publisher | |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 1919 |
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Manual of Meteorology
Title | Manual of Meteorology PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | CUP Archive |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | Fine weather |
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