Why a Booktrail?
The book to read if you REALLY want to get under Alberta’s skin
Our Place
What you need to know before your trail
Kevin Van Tighem is described as a Naturalist, hunter, conservation activist and recovering bureaucrat. What he really is, is a man who wants to experience the landscape he’s so passionate about, explore and showcase its beauty and variety to others. This is another world, a world of nature, diversity and breathtaking beauty.
A book for locals, Canadians and everyone who appreciates this land and who hasn’t really seen it as it’s meant to be seen. Appreciated as it’s meant to be appreciated.
Be prepared to be stunned…
Locations
Reset- Canada - Alberta
- A: Strathmore
- B: Carstairs
- C: Kananaskis
- D: Medicine Hat - Clay District
Travel Guide
Alberta
“Alberta is our place now; we can still sustain the best of it, and bring out the best in ourselves, if we choose to know it well and care for it better.”
Such is the message of this book
“Alberta’s history only goes back to 1905 technically speaking, because that’s when the province acquired a name and boundaries.”
“Our deepest history is in the oral traditions of the indigenous people who occupied this place for many generations…”
Cultural history and natural history cannot be viewed in isolation of one another. The stories of a place and its people are indivisible even if reductions list science assigns one to the realm of geography and the other to that of history; they are simply the same home place viewed through different windows”
Previously published writings are mixed with current reflections on the streams, forests, grasslands and mountains of a Canadian province whose ambivalence about the nature of place, the responsibilities of citizens and the temptations of resource-based prosperity continues to mar the landscape and raise questions about the future.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Our Place: Changing the Nature of Alberta
Destination: Alberta Author/Guide: Kevin Van Tighem Departure Time: 190s onwards
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