Vais-je mourir ? La visibilité était de cent, peut-être deux cents mètres devant moi, le vent soufflait comme je l’avais rarement vu, et, d’un coup, j’ai été projeté dans les airs. Sans que je puisse rien y faire, la corde entre mon...
True adventure stories
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Author:Perro, Bryan, Dion, FrédéricSummary: - Author:Hern, FrancesSummary:
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...
- Author:Lawson, GuySummary:
The page-turning, inside account of how two kids from Florida became big-time weapons traders--and how the US government turned on them. In January of 2007, two young stoners from Miami Beach--one a ninth grade dropout, the other a...
- Author:Salmon, Lynn J., MacFarlane, John M.Summary:
For three years Voss and the Tilikum, aided by a rotating cast of characters, visited Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil and finally England, weathering heavy gales at sea and attracting large crowds of spectators on shore....
- Author:Bauer, Josef MartinSummary:
In 1944, German paratrooper Clemens Forell* was captured by the Soviets and sentenced to twenty-five years of labor in a Siberian lead mine. In the Gulags, this was virtually a death sentence. Driven to desperation by the brutality of...
- Author:Robinson-Smith, TonySummary:
Inspired by travel writer Ted Simon, Tony Robinson-Smith quit his job in Japan, returned home to England, and then set out once more with only a a knapsack, a map, and a dream to travel the world with both feel on the ground. Nearly six...
- Author:Andrews, BryceSummary:
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...
- Author:Martin, Charles Cromwell, Whitsed, RoySummary:
A fast-paced account by a soldier who was twice decorated. Charlie Martin, company sergeant-major in the Queen’s Own, was with his beloved A Company in all of the significant Normandy actions.
- Author:Vautier, ClarenceSummary:
The waters off the east coast of Canada have seen their share of accidents and disasters during the twentieth century. In Newfoundland alone, countless lives have been swallowed up by the angry seas of the North Atlantic or have fallen...
- Author:Proulx, GillesSummary:
Between France and New France is an absorbing look at life abroad the sailing vessels which plied the North Atlantic during the French colonial era in North America. Focusing on the first half of the eighteenth century and the Seven...
- Author:Trimble, LeeSummary:
Near the end of World War II, thousands of Allied ex-POWs were abandoned to wander the war-torn Eastern Front. With no food, shelter, or supplies, they were an army of dying men. The Red Army had pushed the Nazis out of Russia. As they...
- Author:Suthren, VictorSummary:
The incredible story of the “King of the Pirates,” who burst from the waters of early Canada to become a terror of the seas. He was tall, dark, and handsome, he wore fine velvets and lace, and in four tumultuous years he tore the guts...
- Author:Thomson, KeithSummary:
A riveting account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific, a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in England.
- Author:Blaquière, NathalieSummary:
Envoyée en zone de conflit dans une radio en République démocratique du Congo, une journaliste canadienne se trouve plongée dans un monde qui lui fait perdre tous ses repères. Les luttes armées qui ont fait plus de cinq millions de...
- Author:Wylie, KenSummary:
On January 20, 2003, at 10:45 a.m., a massive avalanche released from Tumbledown Mountain in the Selkirk Range of British Columbia. Tonnes of snow carried 13 members of two guided backcountry skiing groups down the 37-degree incline of...
- Author:FitzSimons, PeterSummary:
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...
- Author:Collins, GarySummary:
In the nineteenth century, the Newfoundland government, under constant pressure from fish merchants, began installing lighthouses in some of the more treacherous places around the island.
In the 1950s, Cabot Island boasted a...
- Author:Mount, GraemeSummary:
In 1898, Spanish spies based in Montreal, Halifax, and Victoria monitored the United States war effort against their homeland, while U.S. counter-intelligence officials watched the Spaniards. Neither the Americans nor the Spaniards...
- Author:Parsons, Robert C.Summary:
Many people on Canada’s east coast, the maritime regions, have experienced the temperament of the North Atlantic Ocean: beautiful, moody, mysterious. The cold Atlantic has a capacity, with its tremendous force and power, to take human...
- Author:Tibbo, FrankSummary:
Additional information from two survivors and two Sabena pilots compliment this popular bestseller. In the cold dark of an early September morning, the crew and passengers of a Sabena Airlines DC4, flight OOCBG, were brutally hurled...
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