Roderick Langmere Haig-Brown

Pati just knows the rumours are true - there is a West Country panther. Now she and SImon are setting out to track it. They're confident of their survival skills, but as they are drawn deeper and deeper on to the moors, they have to ask - what will happen when they find it? Suggested level: primary.

A child's encounter with five birds of the west coast. Preface by Valerie Haig-Brown. Chapters titled as follows: 1. Alison's Dipper 2. The Kingfisher 3. The Heron 4. The Mergansers 5. The Osprey According to the prospectus, the book was designed and printed letterpress by Jim Rimmer at The Pie Tree Press in Cloister & Italian Old Style types, on Gutenberg Laid paper. There were to be 375 copies printed in cloth, 100 in quarter Oasis leather, and 25 copies in full Oasis leather, for a total of 500 signed and numbered copies. Leather binding was by Courtland Benson of Twin Doves Bindery.

Story of a shy boy of the Canadian Northwest.

Exciting book about trapping in British Columbia.

Even though he is the runt of the litter from her father's prize sled-racing dog, ten-year-old Rachel plans to train her puppy to become a champion racer and determines to track him down when he mysteriously disappears.

Few books have captured the haunting world of music and rivers and of the sport they provide as well as A River Never Sleeps. Roderick L. Haig-Brown writes of fishing not just as a sport, but also as an art. He knows moving water and the life within it—its subtlest mysteries and perpetual delights. He is a man who knows fish lore as few people ever will, and the legends and history of a great sport.

Young Atlin must one day succeed his father Nit-gass, a great whaling chief of the Hotsath people. The boy trains for his role with the mixture of yearning and apprehension experienced by every youth racing toward adulthood - except that in Atlin's case, his whole community is depending on his success.