Our Bookshelf of Favourite Books

Canoe Country and Snowshoe Country by Florence Page Jaques (1938, 1944)

The North Runner by R. D. Lawrence (1979)

Diary of a Wilderness Dweller by Chris Czajkowski (2005)

The Geography of Hope by Chris Turner (2007)

A Country Year: Living the Questions by Sue Hubbell (1999)

Winterdance by Gary Paulson (2001)

Coming Into The Country by John McPhee (1976)

The Ethics of What We Eat by Peter Singer and Jim Mason (2007)

Cry of the Kalahari by Mark and Delia Owens (1984)

Walking on Thin Ice by David Hempleman-Adams (1998)

Polar Dream by Helen Thayer (1993)

Touching My Father's Soul by Jamling Tenzing Norgay (2001)

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson (2007)

Once A Runner by John L. Parker, Jr. (1978)

Marathon Woman by Karthrine Switzer (2007)

Staying the Course: A Runner's Toughest Race by Dick Beardsley (2004)

Bowerman and the Men of Oregon by Kenny Moore (2006)

Hills, Hawgs and Ho Chi Minh by Don Kardong (1996)

And Then the Vulture Eats You edited by John L. Parker, Jr (1990)

Running With The Buffaloes by Chris Lear (2003)

Dog Walker by Karen Spafford-Fitz (2006)

Fifth Business by Robertson Davies (1970)

The Brothers K by David James Duncan (1992)

The River Why by David James Duncan (1983)

Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2002)