selections from our summer reading list
History
Egan, T. (2013). The worst hard time: the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl. Houghton Mifflin Co.
Grinnell, G. J. (2010). Death on the barrens: a true story of courage and tragedy in the Canadian Arctic. North Atlantic Books.
Morton, D. (2017). A short history of Canada. Mcclelland & Stewart.
Teillet, J. (2021). The north-west is our mother: The story of Louis Riel's people, the Métis nation. HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Turner, F. J. (2022, April 28). The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893) https://www.historians.org/about-aha-and-membership/aha-history-and-archives/historical-archives/the-significance-of-the-frontier-in-american-history-(1893)
Widdis, R. W. (2022, April 28). "Saskatchewan Bound: Migration to a New Canadian Frontier" (1992). Great Plains Quarterly. 649.
Widdis, R. W. (1998). With scarcely a ripple: Anglo-Canadian migration into the United States and Western Canada, 1880-1920. Mcgill-Queen’s University Press.
Travel
Shoalts, A, (2019). Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic 1st (First) Edition. Penguin.
Birds
Arnold, K. A., Fisher, C., Bezener, A., Kennedy, G., & Kagume, K. (2007). Birds of Texas. Lone Pine Pub. International.
Birds Aren’t Real. (2022). Birds Aren’t Real. https://birdsarentreal.com/
Cornell Lab of Ornithology—Home. (2022). Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology. https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/
Climate
Dunn, R. (2021). A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FUTURE: what the laws of biology tell us about the destiny of the human species. Basic Books.
Moon, T. A., M. L. Druckenmiller, and R. l. Thoman, Eds. (2021) Arctic Report Card 2021 https://doi.org/10.25923/5s0f-5163
Smith, D. (n.d.). Climate Change In The Arctic: An Inuit Reality. United Nations. https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/climate-change-arctic-inuit-reality
Future Urban Climates. (2019, February 4). University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. https://www.umces.edu/futureurbanclimates
Staying out of trouble
Gonzales, L. (2009). Everyday survival: why smart people do stupid things. W.W. Norton.
Werner, D., Thuman, C., & Maxwell, J. (2017). Where there is no doctor: a village health care handbook. Hesperian Foundation.
Avoiding starvation
America’s Test Kitchen | Episodes, Recipes & Reviews. (n.d.). Www.americastestkitchen.com. https://www.americastestkitchen.com
Kelly, R. L. (2013). The lifeways of hunter-gatherers: the foraging spectrum. Cambridge University Press.
PépinJ. (2015). Heart & soul in the kitchen. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Rombauer, I. S., Marion Rombauer Becker, & Becker, E. (2006). Joy of cooking. Scribner.