A picture-perfect souvenir collection of images from Ontario's oldest and largest provincial park.

"Going into the bush with a guy like Runtz is like going into the National Gallery with a top curator"
-Kelly Egan, The Ottawa Citizen

Award-winning naturalist and nature photographer Michael Runtz has spent decades exploring Algonquin Provincial Park and chronicling its flora and fauna in all seasons. Some of his best work has now been compiled for this stunning pictorial.

Known as "the wolf capital of eastern North America," Algonquin is home to 53 species of mammal, including substantial numbers of moose, white-tailed deer, beaver and black bear, as well as abundant and diverse species of reptiles and amphibians, fish, birds, insects and plants.

As for its landscape, Algonquin is a near-North paradise with some 7,700 square kilometres of forests, lakes and rivers atop the rugged Canadian Shield. This idyllic refuge from urban life features 1,500 lakes and is easily accessible from dozens of major Canadian and U.S. population centers.

With 96 full-page color photographs by an award-winning photographer, Algonquin Souvenir captures every facet of this glorious park.

Michael Runtz
has been an avid birdwatcher since the age of five and has worked as an interpretive naturalist in Algonquin Provincial and Point Pelee National parks, hosted an international television series Wild by Nature, authored 10 natural history books, and written more than 1,000 newspaper and magazine natural history articles.

Michael teaches Natural History and Ornithology courses at Carleton University where his highly visual teaching style continues to attract record enrolments (to date more than 41,000 students have taken Natural History). Michael has received numerous awards including the Council of Canadian University Biology Chairs Distinguished Public Science Education Award and the Carleton University Lifetime Achievement Award.

A popular keynote speaker and a regular guest on radio and television, Michael was the only Canadian featured in the TVO/NHK Japan 2001 Superteachers series that profiled such notables as Jane Goodall and Nelson Mandella.

Michael Runtz's profile page

Every facet of the park and its wildlife is captured.

Northern Life

A straightforward collection of Michael Runtz's photographs of Algonquin Park.... The book will be most enjoyed by those who have visited the park, but anyone with an eye for photos will find a page worth pausing over.

Grand Magazine (Kitchener)

The book is stunning. The images are well chosen and beautifully presented.... The photographs seem effortless, yet convey a deep understanding of the Park and all it has to offer.

Canadian Camera

Every so often a picture book comes along that simply speaks for itself... It will, appropriately, leave readers speechless... From sunsets to wildlife, plants to rock formations, this book, like the park, is a treasure.

Ottawa Citizen

In this book of photographs, Michael Runtz has captured many stunning images of the park and its inhabitants.

Sideroads

Looking at these stunning, mouth-wateringly seductive images makes one itch to go paddling again as soon as possible.

Nastawgan

What better way to become acquainted with one of Ontario's gems than to see in print the stunning photographs that Runtz has produced.

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