Greystone Books imprint: 184 books
In the Land of Long Fingernails
A Gravedigger's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
"If Raymond Chandler had written a memoir, I could imagine it reading like this." -- Mary Roach
First published in hardcover in 2008, In the Land of Long Fingernails was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Prize, the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, and the Toronto Book Awards.
During...
by Maggie de Vries
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2004
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Nominated for the Governor General's Award for Children's Illustration
Vivid writing and luminous art combine to tell a modern story that introduces young readers to the wonders of bees For city kids like Sophie and Matthew, growing pumpkins is a big thrill.
But they're...
Mom, Will This Chicken Give Me Man Boobs?
My Confused, Guilt-Ridden, and Stressful Struggle to Raise a Green Family
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
A lighthearted look at one woman's struggle to raise a family, be kind to the planet, and maintain her sanity.
As Robyn Harding's family moves from Calgary to Australia to Vancouver -- settling in one of the world's greenest neighborhoods -- she tries valiantly to decrease the size of their...
Creative Nature Photography
Essential Tips and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
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Called a ""master lensman"" (Bird Watching) and ""one of the worldÌs leading bird photographers"" (Outdoor Photography), Bill Coster has become an authoritative source for instructional photographic guides. After the success of his first guide,...
Hiking the West Coast of Vancouver Island
An Updated and Comprehensive Guide to All Major Trails
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
The definitive guide to hiking western Vancouver Island, now in an updated third edition.
The rugged west coast of Vancouver Island offers some of the most spectacular and storied hiking in the Pacific Northwest, including the world-famous West Coast Trail. All 10 major trails, from the botanically...
The Chickens Fight Back
Pandemic Panics and Deadly Diseases that Jump From Animals to Humans - See more
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
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""David Waltner-Toews is a rare flower, a poet, philosopher and scientist with ancient Scheherazade’s talents at storytelling and a scholar’s knowledge of myth and history...How wonderful to be entertained by literature like this while being educated on a critical issue...
The End of Pain
How Diet and Nutrition Can Fight Chronic Inflammatory Disease
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
After years of debilitating chronic pain from arthritis, Jacqueline Lagacé began following Dr. Jean Seignalet’s hypotoxic diet—which calls for the elimination of wheat, animal-source dairy products, and animal proteins cooked at high temperatures—and almost immediately experienced decreased...
The Whistler Book
An All-Season Outdoor Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
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A completely updated new edition of the essential outdoor guidebook for the Whistler area. Concise, thorough, and easy to use, this updated edition of The Whistler Book gives readers all the information they need for the variety of recreational opportunities. As Jack Christie notes,...
My Year of the Racehorse
Falling in Love With the Sport of Kings
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
"Because ultimately, this is a story about unconditional love, about warming to the notion of commitment, about setting off on a voyage away from the shores of self-involvement and self-obsession. My Year of the Racehorse is a poignant, unsentimental, zappingly written and regularly side-splitting...
Passionate Gardener, The
Adventures of an Ardent Green Thumb
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
The 13 short pieces featured in Passionate Gardener roam widely and wildly, examining, among other things, common idiosyncrasies and the collective chaos of garden clubs, the host of psychopathologies that afflict "plants people," and obsessive-compulsive behavior such as the chronic moving...
Heart
The Inside Story of our Body's Most Heroic Organ
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017
In this lively and informative exploration of all aspects of the heart, Johannes Hinrich von Borstel offers a perfect mix of medical fact and amusing anecdote. A doctor, prospective cardiologist, and former paramedic-as well as a successful science-slammer-von Borstel relates his own experiences to...
Sacred Balance 3rd Ed., The
Rediscovering Our Place in Nature, Updated and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
This special 10th-anniversary edition reexamines our place in the natural world in light of sweeping environmental changes and recent advances in scientific knowledge. Since The Sacred Balance was first published in 1997 global warming has become a major issue, with alarming effects being observed...
Empire of the Beetle
How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America's Great Forests
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
"A compelling look at what may be the single biggest impact of climate change, and a harbinger of life to come on a warming planet." -- Jim Robbins, The New York Times
Beginning in the late 1980s, a series of pine beetle (also known as the bark beetle) outbreaks unsettled iconic forests...
Endangered Species Road Trip, The
A Summer's Worth of Dingy Motels, Poison Oak, Ravenous Insects, and the Rarest Species in North America
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
A roadtrip to the edge of extinction, told with the humour and insight of Bill Bryson.
Crammed into a minivan with wife, toddler, infant, and dog, Cameron MacDonald sets out on a journey to observe North America's rarest species. In California, the family camps in the brutally hot Mojave, where...