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An epic portrayal of the lives of fur traders on the Voyageur Route from Lachine to the great summer meeting-place at Grand Portage.
Human animals are despoiling nature and causing a sixth extinction on Earth. Our natural environment is being compromised, and birds and other animals are disappearing at an alarming rate. Flight from Grace does not so much reveal the extent of the damage as ask and answer the perplexing question: why? This book traces human reverence for birds from the Stone Age and the New Stone Age, through the cultures of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Peru, and Greece and through biblical traditions, up to its vestiges in the present. Richard Pope takes a hard look at Judaeo-Christian and ancient Greek thought to demonstrate how the emergence of anthropocentrism and belittling of nature led to our present-day ecol...
Take a walk down the path to financial wellness through years of experiences, economic downturns and ultimate triumphs through strategic planning. The Life Cycle Wealth Management Process(TM) explains how the four quadrants of Business, Personal, Estate and Retirement flow to create a full holistic approach of planning ultimately resulting in financial stability and wealth accumulation. www.popesite.com
In 2007, Richard Pope, a lifelong birder, embarked on his "Big Year," the object being to record at least 300 birds in Ontario within that calendar period. Not just another book on birding, Popes unique approach is supported by an array of exceptional colour illustrations.
Me n Len is a warm and humourously nostalgic look back at life int he backwoods of Ontario in the "good old days." The setting is the rural area of eastern Haliburton, Ontario, in the decades before the chainsaw and the outboard motor became the commons ounds in this beautiful region of central Canada. The main character is a grizzled and lovable 82-year-old trapper and woodsman named Len who takes the reader through the adventures in his memory to meet the people of his past. The stories he tells and the way he tells them are often funny, sometimes poignant, but always filled with an unforgettable down-to-earth philosophy.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.