New York's Men's Journal Magazine hired a studio photographer from Brooklyn, a post-master/writer from Thermond West Virginia and two Canadian river guides to paddle one of the country's most dangerous whitewater rivers - the Seal in northern Manitoba, for the purpose of publishing the quintessential Canadian adventure story. Add to this unlikely melange of characters, the possibility of capsizing in freezing water, the threat of polar bears, a midnight sail down Hudson Bay and Manitoba's worst boreal wild fire, this chronicle will carry the reader to the extreme edge of exploration.

River of Fire: Conflict and Survival on the Seal River

Science & Math

Wilson, Hap

Earth Sciences

Latitude 46

Out of Abaddon: The Long Journey Home

Everything is going as normal in the post-coronavirus world, until it suddenly isn't. Skye Rider leaves Yellowknife carrying data that will form the biggest expose of her journalistic career; she doesn't realize just how important that data is, or what it means to humanity. On the same plane is HAARP technician, Willis Roxton, who's part of the very conspiracy Skye's trying to uncover. When a solar anomaly sends their plane plummeting into the northern Canadian boreal forest, Skye, Willis and Suki, a young Cree boy, face certain death. OUT OF ABADDON follows the three, plus myriad other characters through the days and months following global-wide infrastructure collapse, and into the dystopia their world quickly becomes. Will they survive, and what will remain of society as we know it?

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

FriesenPress

In an age when "survival" shows permeate the media, noted northern traveller Hap Wilson shares accounts of his lifelong involvement with wilderness living within the Canadian Shield. Wilson knows better than most how to live in the woods. As park ranger, canoe guide, outfitter, trail builder, and environmental activist, he learned from firsthand experience that nature can neither be beaten or tamed. Trails and Tribulations takes the reader on a journey with the author through natural settings ranging from austere to mysterious and breathtaking. Contents include animal attacks, bush fires, the threat of hypothermia, and vision-quest sites, to name but a few.

Trails and Tribulations: Confessions of a Wilderness Pathfinder

Sports & Outdoors

Hiking & Camping

ReadHowYouWant

Dance of the Deadmen

Self-styled arctic outdoorsman, John Hornby had already compromised his abilities to survive in the tundra through several incidents of near starvation, and by injuries suffered as a soldier in World War I. He had openly admitted to peers that "he had had enough of the north and wished he had never come". Yet, foolishly, he conscripted his young cousin, nineteen year-old Edgar Christian, and a willing third party, twenty-nine year-old Harold Adlard, both having no survival training or outdoor experience, to join him on an adventure into the most isolated part of the Canadian northland - the Thelon River in the Northwest Territories. This is a story about the tragic Hornby expedition of 1926. One of Canada's most legendary stories, the reader embarks on a journey as if they were there with Hornby and his two charges. Wilson adds dialogue to the events that unfold using excerpts from Edgar's surviving diary. Not sparing any detail, the author applies his own vast knowledge of winter survival to events that led the three to disaster in a land that shows no mercy to the ill-prepared. Wilson bravely delves into the psychology of men in isolation when deprived of hope but not of love....

Adventurers Hap Wilson and Stephanie Aykroyd spent four years traversing 4,000 rugged kilometers of historic fur-trade routes and Ojibwa water routes, on foot and by canoe, in the creation of this astonishing photographic journal. Captured here are scenes of high adventure, world-class pictograph sites along the Bloodvein-Berens River corridors, all stripe of indigenous flora and fauna, life among Manitoba First Nations people in six locations, and representations from each of Manitoba's distinct bioregions. Presented from the perspective of wilderness preservation and ecotourism, Wilderness Manitoba: Land Where the Spirit Lives has the support of the Government of Manitoba, the First Nations People of Manitoba, scientific and anthropological societies, and regional tourism operators.

Wilderness Manitoba: Land Where the Spirit Lives

Arts & Photography

Aykroyd, Stephanie

Photography & Video

Boston Mills Press

Beyond the glamour of the summer retreats and boathouses lining its major lakes, Ontario's famous Muskoka region still possesses a natural, rugged wildness that is rarely celebrated. In this wonderful large-format guidebook, well-known canoeist, wilderness advocate and author Hap Wilson explores the other Muskoka: from the Georgian Bay coast to the Algonquin highlands, through the vast stretches of forest, rivers and smaller lakes in between. Wilson covers canoeing, kayaking, hiking and cross-country skiing in Muskoka's best near-wilderness areas. Wilson's more than 80 hand-drawn, maps detail featured destinations. Soft eco-adventures combine easy daytrips with comfortable lodging. Hard eco-adventures put outdoor skills and endurance to the test, exchanging creature comforts for a more primitive experience.

Canoeing and Hiking Wild Muskoka: An Eco-Adventure Guide

The best canoe, kayak and hiking routes in the wild Temagami region of Ontario. 
 Temagami is one of the northern hemisphere's most desirable and pristine wilderness areas. Each year thousands of Americans and Europeans visit this 4,000 square mile wilderness area in Central Ontario in search of rugged solitude and truly authentic backwoods adventure. 
 This comprehensive guidebook clearly details 25 of the best canoeing, kayaking and hiking routes and contains notes on the region's history, geography, archaeology, flora and fauna, as well as important outfitting, camping and safety tips. 
 Trips include:
<ul>
<li>Temagami to Lake Wanapitei Loop</li> <li>Florence Lake Loop</li> <li>Marten River to Wicksteed Loop</li> <li>Lake Temagami Circle Loop</li> <li>Red Cedar to Jumping Cariboo Lake Loop</li> <li>Diamond, Wakimika and Obabika Lake Loop</li> <li>Anima Nipissing and Jackpine Lake Loop</li> <li>Rabbit and Twin Lakes Loop</li> <li>Turner Lake Loop</li> <li>Matabitchuan River Route</li> <li>Nasmith and Obabika River Route</li> <li>Lady Evelyn, Makobe River, Montreal River Loop</li> <li>Anima Nipissing -- Montreal River Loop</li> <li>Maple Mountain Loop</li> <li>Sugar Lake, Muskego River Links</li> <li>Gowganda to Elk Lake Route</li> <li>Sydney Creek Route</li> <li>Smoothwater Lake to Gowganda Route</li> <li>Smoothwater Lake, Lady Evelyn River Loop</li> <li>Makobe Lake and Trethewey Lake Links</li> <li>Smoothwater Lake to Sturgeon River Route</li> </ul>

Canoeing, Kayaking and Hiking Temagami

Water Sports

The legendary Missinaibi River runs north from Lake Superior to the arctic waters of James Bay. Like many northern rivers, the Missinaibi appeals to seasoned paddlers for the white-knuckle exhilaration of navigating miles of challenging rapids. Other routes along the Michipicoten-Missinabi river corridor offer quieter options for paddlers at any level of experience and ability. 
 Trips include:
<ul>
<li>Shumka to Missanabie</li> <li>Lake Missinaibi Circle</li> <li>Little Missinaibi River</li> <li>Michipicoten River</li> <li>Superior Coast</li> <li>Missinaibi River</li> <li>Moose River</li> <li>Lake Missinaibi to Peterbell</li> <li>Peterbell to Mattice</li> <li>Greenhill Rapids</li> <li>Mattice to Moosonee</li> </ul>
 Each trip is a breathtaking expedition through unforgettable wilderness settings.

Missinaibi: Journey to the Northern Sky: From Lake Superior to James Bay by Canoe

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River of Fire: Conflict and Survival on the Seal River

Out of Abaddon: The Long Journey Home

Out of Abaddon: The Long Journey Home

Trails and Tribulations: Confessions of a Wilderness Pathfinder

Dance of the Deadmen

Dance of the Deadmen

Wilderness Manitoba: Land Where the Spirit Lives

Canoeing and Hiking Wild Muskoka: An Eco-Adventure Guide

Canoeing, Kayaking and Hiking Temagami

Missinaibi: Journey to the Northern Sky: From Lake Superior to James Bay by Canoe