Hancock House Publishers

06/20/2024

Make the most of the summer by getting yourself a copy of the most current and updated guidebook to the North Cascade and Mt Baker (Koma Kulshan) area with renowned photographer John Do'Onofrio! Use our special discount code "MtBaker" to get 25% off for a limited time!

JUST RELEASED Details By: John D'OnofrioISBN: 978-0-88839-760-7 [Trade Paperback]ISBN: 978-0-88839-761-4 [eBook color]Binding: Trade PaperSize: 5.5" X 8.5"Pages: 304Illustrations/Photos: 189Publication Date: 2023 Description This is not your typical hiking guide. Complete with all the maps, access a...

11/10/2023

🎄✨There is still time to register for the official launch of the highly anticipated Christmas anthology “Better Next Year.”

Find tickets here: tinyurl.com/2am7v48u 👆

Come celebrate the variety of the holidays with fabulous authors JJ Lee, Sonja Larsen, & Joanna Baxter. 📚

📅Thursday, November 16
⏰6 PM
📍Massy Arts Society

Christmas isn't always sugarplums and sleigh bells—this anthology spills the real tea on surviving the holiday chaos! 🌟 Join us on a rollercoaster of recollections from amazing Canadian authors, including award-winners and rising stars.

From shelters to streets, and overcoming personal battles, these stories redefine the holiday spirit with grit, humour, and resilience. 🎁 Get ready to unwrap a different kind of Christmas tale! 🎉

10/29/2023

🍄🌎Explore the Hancock House Catalogue.

With decades of publishing expertise, Hancock House is your window to the wonders of the Pacific Northwest.🌟📖

Join us on a journey of exploration, learning, and appreciation for our planet.

Visit our website to browse our diverse catalogue today!

From left to right.
Row 1: Fly Tying by Don Haaheim, Legacy by Valerie Green, Destiny by Valerie Green, Hiking Mt.Baker & the North Cascades by John D’Onofrio.
Row 2. Wildlife Congregations by Laurel Dykstra, The Missing Caribou Hide by Wendy Stephenson, Cecilia Judas, Madeline Judas & Joan Sherman, The Power of Dreams by Dave & Rosemary Neads.
Row 3: A Man and his River by DC Reid, Our Homes on Indigenous Lands by Mali Bain, Solid Air by Daniel Klem, Jr., PhD, Land of Bear and Eagle by Tanyo Ravicz.

10/29/2023

📖🐟Explore Our Niche Topics.

Our publications delve into specialised subjects, from cryptids to Canadiana. Dive into the world of unique knowledge!

10/29/2023

🏔️📷Explore the Enchanting Beauty of Mt. Baker!

John D'Onofrio, a writer and photographer with over 30 years of experience in the Mt. Baker region and the North Cascades, invites you on an extraordinary journey.📖

"Hiking Mt. Baker & the North Cascades" is not your typical hiking guide. It's a window to the stunning vistas and untouched wilderness that await you.Each hike is carefully selected for its exceptional scenic splendour, making your experience in these glorious mountains truly unforgettable.🌄🏞️

Lavishly illustrated with breathtaking photographs and detailed topographic maps, "Mt. Baker" will not only show you how to get to these spectacular destinations but also why you should go. 🏕️🌟

10/28/2023

📚✨Get Ready for the Fourth Chapter in The McBride Chronicles!

If you've delved into "Providence," you already know the spellbinding journey it offers. Once you start, you won't want to stop!

Now, both "Destiny" and "Legacy" are out and ready for historical fiction lovers everywhere.

Consider these books as thoughtful Christmas presents for your family members who adore historical fiction, or simply treat yourself to a thrilling literary experience.🎄🎁

10/28/2023

📖🪶Explore Our Niche Topics.

Our publications delve into specialised subjects, from cryptids to Canadiana. Dive into the world of unique knowledge!

10/28/2023

🌎🦅Empower yourself with knowledge about our planet, its wildlife, and its history with Hancock House books.

10/25/2023

📚🌿Since 1971, our mission has been dedicated to preserving the Pacific Northwest's heritage through literature.

10/24/2023

📖🎣Explore Our Niche Topics.

Our publications delve into specialised subjects, from cryptids to Canadiana. Dive into the world of unique knowledge!

10/24/2023

🎣✨Dive into the Art of Fly Tying with Don Haaheim!

For novice fly-fishers, the world of artificial flies can be overwhelming. But fear not, "Fly Tying: Proven Flies for the Pacific Northwest" is here to guide you through the essentials.

Discover the basic equipment, materials, and patterns for chironomids, wet flies, dry flies, and those designed for steelhead and salmon. Don Haaheim's fly-tying methods, passed down by the legendary Earl Anderson, ensure your flies rarely unravel.🎯🪰

Beyond instruction, you'll find a wealth of life lessons and stories collected over decades, making this book not just informative but an enjoyable journey into the world of fly tying.

10/24/2023

🌿📖Explore the Wonders of Wildlife with Laurel Dykstra!

Laurel Dykstra, an Anglican priest, environmental activist, and amateur naturalist, invites you to the heart of the lower Fraser watershed on Coast Salish territory. With her haphazard q***r family and a cat who's a character of its own, Laurel's tales are a delightful mix of the wild and the wonderful.

Join us as we embark on a journey of discovery, connecting spirituality, nature, and social change.🌍📚

10/24/2023

📖🌄Explore Our Niche Topics.

Our publications delve into specialised subjects, from cryptids to Canadiana. Dive into the world of unique knowledge!

10/24/2023

🦅🌍David Hancock laid the foundation of our publishing venture to promote wildlife conservation.

12/18/2022

Free shipping on orders over $50 CAD or $75 USD! Bundle and save this holiday season with some fantastic books this year from our new and forthcoming novels!

At loose ends in his private life, at odds with society, Tanyo Ravicz persuades Martina, his wife, to join him in a reset, a new beginning. Before long, they and their children are living in a wilderness cabin on Alaska’s Kodiak Island, outnumbered by the brown bears

12/17/2022

Free shipping on orders over $50 CAD or $75 USD! Bundle and save this holiday season with some fantastic books this year from our new and forthcoming novels!

“A Man and His River” is a love story, and a story of personal journey set on the banks of the Nitinat river on Vancouver Island. It is about the inherent and universal feeling of being near flowing water and the experiences of nature and wildlife that share the banks. This book is also a summary of the author’s lifetime of fishing Vancouver Islands 123 watersheds and the pursuits of its diversity of salmon and trout.

12/16/2022

Free shipping on orders over $50 CAD or $75 USD! Bundle and save this holiday season with some fantastic books this year from our new and forthcoming novels!

“Out of the Lyme Light and into the Sunlight” tells of the journey undertaken by the author, Bob Bell, after developing a bizarre set of increasingly debilitating symptoms, eventually leading to a diagnosis of Lyme disease. He describes his experiences, including the various allopathic and complementary medical treatments he received, and his frustrations in dealing with a skeptical Canadian medical system, which resulted in him seeking out-of-country medical treatment.

12/09/2022

Free shipping on orders over $50 CAD or $75 USD! Bundle and save this holiday season with some fantastic books from our new and forthcoming novels!

In 1890, Harry and Mary Ann Foote arrived on Coast Salish territory and purchased Jedediah – a private island. Starting with the simple question “Where am I from?”, this narrative traces one family across Canada and through hundreds of years to share a personal lens on the lived experience of settler colonization. Drawing on original letters, transcripts, and oral histories, the book weaves connections between the stories of specific ancestors and their connection to land, treaties, and Indigenous peoples at that time. Accounts include colourful stories of homesteading on Jedediah Island, in what is now known as British Columbia, construction of the parliament buildings on Epekwitk (Prince Edward Island), life during the so-called “Indian Wars” of the 1700s, and homesteading on the shores of Ouentironk (Lake Simcoe). The earliest stories go back to the 1600s, when a settler with the unlikely name of Peter Rambo was one of the earliest founders of a settlement called New Sweden in what we now call Pennsylvania.

12/08/2022

Free shipping on orders over $50 CAD or $75 USD! Bundle and save this holiday season with some fantastic books from our new and forthcoming novels!

“The Missing Caribou Hide” is a story that passes through the years in Tłı̨chǫ history. It tells of times when people lived a simpler life built around the fur trade, hard work and helping one another. It tells of times when relationships with animals and our environment were stronger than they are today.

12/07/2022

Free shipping on orders over $50 CAD or $75 USD! Bundle and save this holiday season with some fantastic books from our new and forthcoming novels!

“Sasquatch Discovered” is the biography of Dr. John Bindernagel – Canada’s foremost sasquatch/bigfoot investigator. His intense childhood curiosity about the natural world, with a particular interest in ornithology, led to his involvement as a Junior Naturalist and his teacher dubbing him “the scientist” for his in-class contributions. By high-school, he was practicing good curatorial habits as he collected specimens for the museum he created in the family home.

12/03/2022

Get the reader in your life a great book this year from our new and forthcoming novels!

“Providence,” the first in the McBride Chronicles trilogy, describes the sweeping story of two parallel lives – Jane Hopkins, an orphaned young girl from England and Gideon McBride, the son of a poor fisherman from Scotland - who separately travel to the New World in search of a better life. Their individual stories contain hardship, adventure, intrigue, deception and lies but, above all, a great love as they each find their way to survive in an unforgiving world – Jane through music and a desperate need for the foundations of a happy family life, and Gideon through a desire to escape from a lifestyle he was expected to embrace.

12/02/2022

Get the reader in your life a great book this year from our new and forthcoming novels!

These are the stories of how the two of them designed and hand-built a solar-powered, two-storey post and beam house while learning to live off-grid and in harmony with nature. They share their experiences with you through vivid descriptions of the adventures, people, places and the ingenious solutions needed as they forged their Precipice lifestyle and explored the wild world of the west Chilcotin.

These vignettes will give you a feeling for life in the wilderness and perhaps inspire you to fulfill your own wilderness dream, helping you find a path through these challenging times when new ideas and insights are so desperately needed.

Find it on our website, and order today!

12/01/2022

Get the reader in your life a great book this year from our new and forthcoming novels!

Nahanni is the journey to the abandoned mining town of Tungsten at the headwaters of the Flat River, and to the Flat Lakes just north, the headwaters of the Little Nahanni, leads to a tour of the ruins and a history of the Lakes. That history starts in the 1930s with the arrival of George Dalziel, the “flying trapper,” who was in the business of dropping his “assistants” into prime martin-trapping areas. The stories of these trappers, the Cormack brothers and Nazar Zenchuk, after whom a feeder creek of the Flat Lakes is named, link to the stories of other trappers along the South Nahanni, the Flat, and Glacier Lake near the Cirque of the Unclimbables. Raymond Patterson was the first to make these men famous. The RCMP helped too, with their accounts of looking for men who disappeared, some of them Dalziel’s employees or customers.

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11/27/2022

Get the reader in your life a great book this year from our new and forthcoming novels!

The Canada Jay as Canada’s National Bird? presents a convincing argument for the official recognition of the Canada Jay as our national bird by the federal government. With chapters written by several authors, including experts on the species, whimsical poetry, perspectives from all three founding peoples of Canada, many excellent colourful photos and paintings by talented photographers and artists, and a Foreword by none other than Robert Bateman, the book promotes the idea that Canada needs a National Bird and that the Canada Jay best fits the bill. While the bird was proclaimed the winner of the ‘contest’ run by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society several years ago and despite the fact that many Canadians now consider it to be our national bird, our federal government has yet to recognize it officially. One could not find a more Canadian bird than the aptly named Canada Jay!

Find it on our website, and order today! https://www.hancockhouse.com/collections/newly-released-forthcoming

11/26/2022

Get the reader in your life a great book this year from our new and forthcoming novels!

Birds behave as if sheet glass is invisible to them. They kill themselves striking clear and reflective panes in all types and sizes of human-built structures the world over. The killing is indiscriminate, taking the fit and unfit species, of any age category- both common and of conservation concern. Window-kills occur in the billions worldwide annually. The victims are always unintended, unnecessary, harmless, and have no voice or other means to protect themselves.

Find it on our website, and order today! https://www.hancockhouse.com/collections/newly-released-forthcoming

11/25/2022

Get the fisherman/fisherwoman in your life a great book this year from our recently published title by BC author Joey Ambrosi! Use discount code "fishing" at checkout for free shipping anywhere in Canada and the US if you order $50 or more.

Fishing the Canadian Rockies Second Edition is an updated, revised and comprehensive guidebook to the lakes, rivers and streams of the Canadian Rockies. The area covered by Fishing the Canadian Rockies, extends from the Canada-U.S. border in the south, through Jasper, Switzer and Mt. Robson parks in the north. Both the Alberta and British Columbia sides of the Continental Divide through the Rockies are covered. Detailed descriptions with listings of over 1,200 lakes and rivers are included, plus over 650 colour photographs and 90 colour maps. Since its original publication in 2001, this book has long been considered to be the Angler’s Bible of fishing guides for the region. This new and updated version provides exhaustive coverage of the best fishing spots the area has to offer!

Find it on our website, and order today! https://www.hancockhouse.com/collections/newly-released-forthcoming