Imagine This Valley: Essays and Stories Celebrating the Bow Valley
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Canmore and Banff are collectively renowned for their mountain culture, diverse wildlife, and scenes of breathtaking natural splendor. These vibrant mountain communities are also home to exceptional adventurers, artists, thinkers, and writers. For the first time, some of the area's best-known personalities have contributed essays to a collection of work that promotes this remarkable area like no other book has before. Author royalties from Imagine This Valley will be donated and placed into a fund for young people from the Bow Valley who wish to pursue writing as a vocation. An initial amount…mehr

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Canmore and Banff are collectively renowned for their mountain culture, diverse wildlife, and scenes of breathtaking natural splendor. These vibrant mountain communities are also home to exceptional adventurers, artists, thinkers, and writers. For the first time, some of the area's best-known personalities have contributed essays to a collection of work that promotes this remarkable area like no other book has before. Author royalties from Imagine This Valley will be donated and placed into a fund for young people from the Bow Valley who wish to pursue writing as a vocation. An initial amount of $2,000 will be placed in trust by RMB Rocky Mountain Books, and each year, starting in 2016, a $500 grant will be given to a student interested in pursuing their dream of writing. The contributors include: Rob Alexander Jocey Asnong Barry Blanchard Ian Brown Kristy Davidson Colette Derworiz Ben Gadd Jamey Glasnovic Katherine Govier Maria Gregorish Miki Kawano Frances Klatzel Michale Lang Harvey Locke Dustin Lynx Lynn Martel Brewster Niehaus Ruth Oltmann Carol Picard Graeme Pole John Reilly Robert Sandford Margo Talbot Jon Whyte
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Stephen Legault is a full-time conservation activist, writer, photographer, and organizational development consultant. He is the author of Running Toward Stillness, a meditation on Buddhist spiritual practice, running, and parenthood, as well as Taking a Break from Saving the World, a short book which examines the consequences of overwork in the "save the world" movement. He is also the author of several photography books, including Earth and Sky: Photographs and Stories from Montana and Alberta and Where Rivers Meet: Photographs and Stories from the Bow Valley and Kananaskis Country. He lives in Canmore, Alberta, with his wife, Jenn, and two children, Rio and Silas.