The 2009 Massey Lectures are now available as audio files from CBC Radio's Ideas.

Over the past decade, many of us have been alarmed to learn of the rapidly accelerating extinction of our planet's diverse flora and fauna. But how many of us know that our human cultural diversity is also going extinct at a shocking rate? In The Wayfinders, acclaimed anthropologist Wade Davis offers a gripping account of this urgent crisis.

"Davis writes magnificently, with verve when describing his many adventurous field trips, accurately and efficiently when telling science or history . . . The cumulative effect is spellbinding."
-- New York Times Book Review

Help Me, Jacques Cousteau
Gil Adamson

With this new, updated edition, Gil Adamson's brilliant, fascinating, and funny portrait of a contemporary young woman's coming of age is ready for readers once again.

Adamson demonstrates her powerful prose style, uniquely combining a scientist's loving attention to detail, a comic's unerring delivery, and a poet's sublime ear. 

Barbara Gowdy called Help Me, Jacques Cousteau "outstanding . . . smart, haunting, utterly original."