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Since its inception in 1979 at the hands of passionate and renowned
mountaineers Tony and Gillean Daffern, RMB (Rocky Mountain Books) has
published work that focuses on the dynamic and unique aspects of
mountain culture, outdoor adventure and “writing of place”, including
volumes on hiking, climbing, skiing and outdoor recreation; history,
art, memoir, biography, travel and environmental writing. At RMB we
“Think Outside.”
RMB publications have won numerous awards over the years. Pushing the
Limits: The Story of Canadian Mountaineering (2000), by Chic Scott,
won the 2001 Canadian Rockies Award at the Banff Mountain Book
Festival and the 2001 Alberta Trade Book of the Year Award. Other RMB
Canadian Rockies Award winners include The Yam (2002), Caves of the
Canadian Rockies (2003), Bruno Engler (2004), The 11,000ers of the
Canadian Rockies (2005), Powder Pioneers (2006) and Glen Boles (2007).
In 2007, RMB was pleased to see nominations for Guardians of the
Peaks, by Kathy Calvert and Dale Portman, which was nominated for the
Wilfred Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction at the 2007 Writers Guild of
Alberta Literary Awards, and The Diva and the Rancher, by David Finch
and Jennifer Hamblyn, which was nominated for the 2007 Grant MacEwan
Writer’s Prize. An earlier RMB title nominated for the Grant MacEwan
Prize, and short-listed for the Eggleston Award, was the biography
R.M. Patterson (2000), also by David Finch.
In 2008, RMB was pleased to have five titles nominated for various
awards at the Banff Mountain Book & Film Festival: Mount Assiniboine:
Images in Art (Canadian Rockies Award Finalist), Expedition to the
Edge and Morning Light (Adventure Travel Finalists), Bugaboo Dreams
(Mountain Literature Finalist) and Baffin Island (Mountain Exposition
Finalist). RMB is very proud to have increased our nominations from
one each year to five in a single year, and obviously we hope this is
a trend that will continue!
The continuing goal of RMB is to expose readers to the forgotten,
established and contemporary voices of various mountain, outdoor and
environmental writers, artists and thinkers. This is being done by
bringing back into print vital works from the early 20th century,
along with continuing to publish and reprint writing from the late
20th century, all the while working toward giving voice to new
writers, artists and communities as they are evolving in the 21st
century.
RMB is strongly immersed in Canada’s publishing industry and we look
forward to exploring the multi-layered aspects of outdoor culture in
order to offer readers glimpses into the thoughts and lives of the
people that comprise our world in the Mountain West and beyond.
ISBN Prefix(es): 0-921102, 1-894765, 1-897522
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Books orders:
Canadian Sales
Heritage Group Distribution & Sales
#108 - 17665 66A Avenue
Surrey, BC V3S 2A7
T. 1-800-665-3302
F. 1-800-566-3336
E. orders@hgdistribution.com
USA Sales
Midpoint Trade Books
27 West 20th Street, Suite 1102
New York, NY 10011
T. 212-727-0190
F. 212-727-0195
UK and Europe Sales
Gazelle Book Services
T. (44) 1524-68765
F. (44) 1524-63232
E. gazelle4go@aol.com
Publishing office:
406 13th Avenue NE
Calgary, AB T2E 1C2
T. 403-271-3145
F. 403-249-2968
E. don@rmbooks.com
W. www.rmbooks.com
Don Gorman, Publisher (don@rmbooks.com)
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