Imagine This Valley - (Paperback)

About the Book

"Featuring essays from some of the area's most beloved personalities, this exceptional literary anthology celebrates the landscape, culture, community and natural history of Alberta's Bow Valley. Canmore and Banff are collectively renowned for their mountain culture, diverse wildlife and scenes of breathtaking natural splendour. 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."--

Book Synopsis

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

About the Author

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.