Leaning on the Wind: Under the Spell of the Great Chinook

Can$22.95

Nominated for the 1995 Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction

Winner of the Mountain Environment and Culture Award at the 1995 Banff Mountain Book Festival 

At once a tale-teller's journey, a family history, a passionate portrait of the Chinook, and a poet's vision of the West. This is a smart beauty of a book. 
-Montreal Gazette 

Created by the crashing together of tectonic plates, worn down by the passage of ice and time and shaped by hot, dry chinook winds, the foothills of the Rocky Mountains are a special place. In composing his ode to the land he loves, bestselling author and mountain man Sid Marty skillfully weaves together First Nations legends with the harrowing tales of miners, early homesteaders and his own family's experiences living in an old ranch headquarters. The result is a passionate and vivid book: dense with information, lyrical in its appreciation of the land and the people who have inhabited it, but also cut by icy irony and sardonic wit.

As evocative today as when it was first published in 1995, this new edition of the bestselling western classic may just be one of the best books ever written about Alberta for the way Marty captures the unique character of the land that lies between the mountains and the prairies. 

Sid Marty is a former park warden who has been a full-time freelance writer and singer/ songwriter for 30 years. He is a frequent contributor to Canadian Geographic, and has also written for radio and television. His books about life in the mountains and the Canadian prairies have been consistent bestsellers. His most recent book, The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek, was nominated for a 2007 Governor General's Award. He lives near Pincher Creek, Alberta, at the foot of the Rocky Mountains.


 

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