Canadians connect with the wilderness in an endless number of subtle or impassioned ways: as sea captains, mountaineers, artists, eco-warriors, rafters, nudists, and industrialists—or simply as canoeists or cottage dwellers. 
In April 2000, Charles Wilkins set off from his Lake Superior home on travels that took him coast to coast: aboard a working freighter on the Great Lakes, then overland to the west, at times on foot in the mountains and rainforests and along the sea coasts. His travels culminated in an intense two-week sojourn alone in the wilderness of northern Canada. This compelling blend of travel narrative and portraiture, of unexpected exotica and humour, brings to life Wilkins's discoveries about the nature of our attachments to the land and waters. Come into the sauna with the nudist members of the Traditional Finnish Sauna Society of Thunder Bay. Meet Winston Books, an eccentric Toronto engineer with a bizarre lifestyle and infectious passion for the night sky. Share the tensions and energy of the captain and crew of the freighter MV Paterson. And encounter the Lawson family who, despite their 19th-century living habits, have fomented a 21st-century ecological revolution on Clayoquot Sound. A Wilderness Called Home helps make sense of the wilds around us—the wilds that are our Canadian home, no matter how jaded and urban we become.

Wilderness Called Home: Dispatches From The Wild Heart Of Canada

Science & Math

WILKINS, Charles

Nature & Ecology

Penguin Canada

Looks at the last twenty years of the National Hockey League, since the 1967 expansion, describes modern trends, and offers profiles of top players

HOCKEY

Diamond, Dan

Sports & Outdoors

DOUBLEDAY

The Bhagvat-geeta or Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon

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History

BiblioLife

During the hazy summer of 1969, Charles Wilkins, then a student at the University of Toronto, took a job as a gravedigger. The bizarre-but-true events of that time, including a midsummer gravediggers’ strike, the unearthing of a victim of an unsolved murder, and a little illegal boneshifting, play out amongst a Barnumesque parade of mavericks and misfits in this macabre and hilarious memoir of mortality, materialism, and the gradual coming-ofage of an impressionable young man.

In the Land of Long Fingernails

Biographies & Memoirs

VIKING

A Wilderness Called Home: Dispatches from the Wild Heart of Canada

Penguin/Viking

Provides vivid, captivating portraits of 8 former hockey stars &amp; their families, &amp; stories of their triumphs &amp; struggles now that they have broken away from life on the ice. Includes Johnny Bower, Yvan Cournoyer, John Ferguson, Randy Gregg, Reggie Leach, Eric Nesterenko, Bobby Smith, &amp; Tiger Williams. Some have happily left the game behind, while others still chase after the transcendental thrill that hockey gave them. Wilkins draws penetrating observations from these men -- &amp; their wives -- on their lives in the NHL &amp; on what it is that continues to drive them. Heroes in their day, they remain larger than life. Photos.

Breakaway: Hockey and the Years Beyond

Hockey

McClelland & Stewart Ltd.

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The Circus at the Edge of the Earth: Travels with the Great Wallenda Circus

Travel

Canada

MCCLELLAND STEWART

The Great Wallenda Circus represents a form of art that's rapidly dying out, a cirrus complete with tigers, clowns, acrobats, and other traditional acts. Charles Wilkins, son of a circus enthusiast, travelled with this circus, from Thunder Bay, Ontario, to Flirt Flon in northern Manitoba -- "the edge of the earth, " as far north as any circus ever goes.His exquisitely crafted story is by turns funny and moving, sad and shocking, as it introduces readers to the rigours, the freedoms, the announces, and the horrific risks of circus life, as well as to some of the most fascinating and offbeat people in show business.Meet Rick Wallenda, grandson of the late circus daredevil, Karl Wallenda. Rick, once a high-wire walker himself, is now crippled from a near-fatal fall. This is his circus's first tour of Canada, and he leads his troupe along the frost-shattered highways, through freezing weather, truck breakdowns, and one of the greatest floods in Canadian history. Still, the show must go on, even in the face of unexpected (and vindictive) competition from a rival circus.

Circus at the Edge of the Earth

Humor & Entertainment

A Canadian recounts his 12,181-mile journey by canoe from Winnipeg to the mouth of the Amazon accompanied by his son, Dana, chronicling the breathtaking sights, perils, obstacles, friendships, and love that they found along the way

Paddle to the Amazon

Starkell, Don

Water Sports

Prima Pub.

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