The Southern Cross turns over, telling travellers under the vast Australian skies of the passing of the night and the coming of dawn. Barbie, a traveller, sees the hardship, laughter, suffering and joy.
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- Auteur:NILAND, D'ArcySommaire:
- Auteur:Hagood, JohnsonSommaire:
Major General Johnson Hagood (1873–1948) was one of South Carolina's most distinguished army officers of the 20th century. An artillerist and a scholar of military science, Hagood became a noted expert in logistics, and served as the...
- Auteur:Kawatski, Deanna BarnhardtSommaire:
“Burning Man, Slaying Dragon is an exciting, high stakes, spiritual adventure that spans decades, continents, cultures and generations. As a young, headstrong hippie, Deanna Barnhardt Kawatski leaves her home at her beloved Shuswap Lake...
- Auteur:Wilson, FrancesSommaire:
"Never trust the teller," wrote D. H. Lawrence, "trust the tale." Everyone who knew him told stories about Lawrence, and Lawrence told stories about everyone he knew. He also told stories about himself, again and...
- 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:Cannings, Richard, Cannings, SydneySommaire:
This revised and expanded edition of an award-winning book not only explores British Columbia's stunning ecology but also features an increased focus on climate change. With expanded sections on the province’s geological history,...
- Auteur:Keller, Betty, Leslie, RosellaSommaire:
For well over a century, the bright seas of the Sunshine Coast have been attracting visitors to the waterfront resorts, fishing lodges and beaches that rest between Howe Sound and the spectacular Princess Louisa Inlet. These coastal...
- Auteur:Macpherson, MargaretSommaire:
Body Trade weaves together two stories of survival. The main narrative follows Rosie and Tanya, two young Canadian women who decide to leave the Northwest Territories and head south on an ill-conceived road trip through California,...
- Auteur:Kirkby, BruceSommaire:
A bestselling travel writer recounts an epic high-altitude family adventure. Feeling stagnant, gawking mindlessly at his phone, increasingly disconnected from family and everything of importance in his world, it struck writer Bruce...
- Auteur:Kupferschmidt, KaiSommaire:
Blue is a rare color - natural blue, that is. From morpho butterflies in the rain forest to the blue jay flitting past your window, vanishingly few living things are blue - and most that appear so are doing sleight of hand with physics...
- Auteur:Salmond, AnneSommaire:
"In Bligh, the story of the most notorious of all Pacific explorers is told through a new lens as a key episode in the history of the world, rather than simply of the West. Award-winning anthropologist Anne Salmond recounts with a fresh...
- Auteur:West, RebeccaSommaire:
Examines the history, people, and politics of Yugoslavia at the beginning of World War II.
- Auteur:Correy, RyanSommaire:
Before his untimely death from cancer in 2018, veteran rider and passionate cyclist Ryan Correy (two-time finisher of the Tour Divide, founder of Bikepack Canada and author of A Purpose Ridden) pedalled his way through the most popular...
- Auteur:Terry, BillSommaire:
Beyond Beauty is the story of a remarkable journey that Bill Terry and his wife, Rosemary, undertook when they joined a party of Dutch and British alpine plant hunters intent on botanizing on the roof of the world. The expedition...
- Auteur:Stewart, Roderick, Majada, JesúsSommaire:
Norman Bethune (1890-1939) was a man who had everything, and yet had nothing. Although he had achieved international prominence as a surgeon, he was unhappy in his personal life and deeply frustrated by a failed attempt to introduce...
- Auteur:Ferguson, WillSommaire:
Will Ferguson’s first book in three years, following on the back-to-back successes of How to Be a Canadian (over 110,000 copies sold) and Happiness™ (Winner of the Leacock Medal for Humour).
Will Ferguson has spent the past three...
- Auteur:Ulysse, CollectifSommaire:
Découvrez Banff et ses environs à l'aide de ce chapitre extrait du guide Ulysse Explorez les Rocheuses canadiennes. Principale agglomération du parc national Banff, la ville de Banff vit au rythme du tourisme. Les montagnes...
- Auteur:Kaplan, Robert D.Sommaire:
From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the twentieth century, the place where terrorism and genocide first became tools of policy....
- Auteur:Ives, Jack D.Sommaire:
A geographer with extensive research experience in the Canadian North, Jack D. Ives has written a lively and informative account of several expeditions to Baffin Island during the “golden age” of federal research. In the 1960s,...
- Auteur:Andrews, BryceSommaire:
The gripping memoir of a young man, a wolf, their parallel lives and ultimate collision, Badluck Way is also an ode to the satisfaction of hard work on some of the wildest and most beautiful land in the world. "Mine might have been a...