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Bryan, Liz Country Roads of Alberta: Exploring the Routes Less Travelled
Surrey, BC, Canada Heritage House 2007 1894974298 / 9781894974295 First Softcover New
Experience history and the outdoors in Country Roads of Alberta, an intriguing new photographic guidebook that takes you to places you've never been before. Alberta's scenery is as diverse as its topography. Fringed along its western edge by high mountains, the land descends through foothills to stretch into undulating plains sculpted by ancient ice into ridges, hills and deep coulees. Under the changing light of the prairie sky, the rolling landscape reveals tipi rings and medicine wheels-remnants of the first people to call this land home-as well as marks of later civilization: homesteads, old barns, churches and the graveyards of the first immigrants. Antelope, wild goats, moose, beaver, prairie dogs and birds are among the bountiful wildlife that flourish here. In Country Roads of Alberta, Liz Bryan guides readers along the back roads of this beautiful landscape. In addition to driving directions and maps, Bryan includes snippets of archaeology, history, geology and other interesting information. The heart of her book, though, is in her magnificent, full-colour photos that celebrate Alberta's many landscapes-some still wild, and all most beautiful.
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Bryan, Liz Stone by Stone: Exploring Ancient Sites on the Canadian Plains
Surrey, BC, Canada Heritage House Publishing Company Ltd. 2005 1894384903 / 9781894384902 Trade Paperback New
In this unique guidebook, author Liz Bryan takes readers on a fascinating journey across the short-grass prairie in search of the region's ancient past. It belongs primarily to the First Nations, the inhabitants who occupied what is today southern Alberta and Saskatchewan for at least 12,000 years. They were nomads, anchoring their lives to the buffalo, upon which they depended for virtually everything: food, shelter, clothing and implements. Touching the land only lightly in their seasonal buffalo rounds, the First People nevertheless left signs of their passage—in enduring stone. Bryan finds settlements still marked by the circles of stone that held down the First Peoples' tipi homes, and larger circles that archaeologists call "ceremonial" for want of a proven purpose. Her journeys include buffalo jumps, vision quest sites, enigmatic cairns and medicine wheels, no two alike, and the great puzzles of the effigies, figures of men and beasts laid out on hilltops. And there are rock art sites where the ancients inscribed the pictures and symbols of their world, allowing us to see, however briefly and imperfectly, into their lives.
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