The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it. In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was...
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Auteur:Levy, BuddySommaire: - Auteur:Glover, Douglas, Mathews, LawrenceSommaire:
Winner, Governor General's Award for Fiction. Shortlisted, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and Commonwealth Writers' Prize. A 16th-century belle turned Robinson Crusoe, a female Don Quixote with an Inuit Sancho Panza — this is the heroine...
- Auteur:Haldeman, Joe W.Sommaire:
The mysterious alien Others are prohibiting humans from space travel by destroying Earth's fleet of starships in a display of unimaginable power. But Carmen Dula, the first human to encounter the Others, is determined to find a way to...
- Auteur:Brands, H. W.Sommaire:
From a New York Times -bestselling author, a sweeping history of the American West In Dreams of El Dorado, H.W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor's...
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Auteur:Cruikshank, JulieSommaire:Do Glaciers Listen? explores the conflicting depictions of glaciers to show how natural and cultural histories are objectively entangled in the Mount Saint Elias ranges. This rugged area, where Alaska, British Columbia, and the Yukon...
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Auteur:Andra-Warner, ElleSommaire:Surveyor, cartographer, fur trader, adventurer, naturalist and entrepreneur, David Thompson is now recognized as one of the greatest explorers and geographers of all time. By 1812, he had surveyed almost four million square kilometres...
- Auteur:Hill, DavidSommaire:
From the bestselling author of 1788. The remarkable story of the fledgling settlement that survived against the odds. Bestselling historian David Hill tells the story of the first three decades of Britain's earliest colony in...
- Auteur:Newman, Peter C.Sommaire:
Shaping the destiny of Canada, the merchant founders of the Hudson's Bay Company tamed the wilderness as they built the world's largest private commerical empire. A brilliant story chronicling the unsung heroes of North American history...
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Auteur:Cheadle, WalterSommaire:Walter B. Cheadle’s diary tells his incredible story of travelling with Lord Milton, as they journeyed along the uncharted Yellowhead route in 1862–63. A miraculously successful expedition, the men traversed the continent, making their...
- Auteur:Bowering, GeorgeSommaire:
First published in 1980 to high acclaim, Burning Water won a Governor General's Award for fiction that year. A rollicking chronicle of Captain Vancouver's search for the Northwest Passage, the book has over its career been mentioned in...
- Auteur:FitzSimons, PeterSommaire:
This is the captivating account of the magnificent but doomed quest, led by Robert O'Hara Burke and William Wills, to be the first Europeans to cross the harsh Australian continent in 1860. Plagued with disputes and food shortages...
- Auteur:Morgan, RobertSommaire:
Often obscured by myth and folklore, Daniel Boone is as fascinating a character as any other American son. Here, Robert Morgan chronicles the life life of the frontier legend.
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Auteur:Hern, FrancesSommaire:There is no saga in Canadian history as full of hardship, catastrophe and mystery as the search for the Northwest Passage. Since the 15th century, the ice-choked Arctic waterway has been sought and travelled by daring men seeking profit...
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Auteur:VanderMeer, JeffSommaire:Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. After eleven unsuccessful expeditions to survey the area--most of which ended in death--the twelfth expedition is set to go. Area X delivers the unexpected, but it...
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Auteur:Larson, Edward J.Sommaire:Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, An Empire of Ice presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration. Retold with added information, it's the first book to place the famed...
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Auteur:Shoalts, AdamSommaire:Canada's real-life Indiana Jones reminds us that the age of exploration is not over. When Adam Shoalts ventured into the largest unexplored wilderness on the planet, he hoped to set foot where no one had ever gone before. What he...
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Auteur:Hearne, Samuel, McGoogan, KenSommaire:Widely recognized as a classic of northern-exploration literature, A Journey to the Northern Ocean is Samuel Hearne's story of his three-year trek to seek a trade route across the Barrens in the Northwest Territories. Hearne was a...
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Auteur:Wiebe, Rudy HenrySommaire:A Discovery of Strangers is a story--based on true events--of love and innocence, murder, greed and passion set within the terrifying, fragile Arctic landscape. In 1820, John Franklin's small group of British officers and Canadian...
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Auteur:Menzies, GavinSommaire:The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result of a rediscovery of the ideas and ideals of classical Greece and Rome. But now bestselling historian Gavin...
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Auteur:Lahey, D. T.Sommaire:Born in Scotland and trained as a sugar broker in London, England, Sir George Simpson (1792-1860) was unexpectedly appointed in 1820 as governor of Rupert's Land and the Indian territories, an area encompassing all of Canada from Hudson...
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