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1 online resource |
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| Summary |
"Featuring essays from some of the area's most beloved personalities, this exceptional literary anthology celebrates the landscape, culture, community and natural history of Alberta's Bow Valley. Canmore and Banff are collectively renowned for their mountain culture, diverse wildlife and scenes of breathtaking natural splendour. These vibrant mountain communities are also home to exceptional adventurers, artists, thinkers and writers. For the first time, some of the area's best-known personalities have contributed essays to a collection of work that promotes this remarkable area like no other book has before."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Intro; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Part One: A Sense of Place; Bow Corridor; Yam; The Business of the River; My Happy Place, My Home; Why We Are So Drawn to the Magnitude and Beauty of Mountains; The Colour of January; Written in My Name; Exshaw; Downriver; A Sense of Mountain Place; Part Two: Coming and Going; The Other Side of Paradise; Returning to My Senses; Coffee at the Temple; Pulling Up Stakes; Three Valleys; Nothing to Do in the Bow Valley; A Letter from the Bow Valley; Part Three: The Politics of Place; Banff National Park; The History of a Fantasy; Banff Kids. |
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The Nakoda and My Changing PerspectivesThe Great Uncertainty; Part Four: The Wild Side; Green Eyes on the Goat Creek Trail; Frozen Redemption; Searching for the Bow Valley's Oldest Tree; High Peaks and Deep Roots; Tributaries; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Copyright Page. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Bow River Valley (Alta.) -- In literature.
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Canadian essays (English) -- 21st century. |
| Indexed Term |
NATURE / Essays |
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NATURE / Regional |
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Nature & the natural world: general interest |
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Travel writing |
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Electronic books.
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Essays.
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Essays.
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| Added Author |
Legault, Stephen, 1971- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Imagine this valley.: Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books, 2016 (CaOONL)20169049981 |
| ISBN |
1771601779 |
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9781771601771 (electronic book) |
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