Manitoba's Hayes River runs over six hundred kilometers from near Norway House to Hudson Bay. On its rush to the sea, the Hayes races over forty-five rapids and waterfalls as it drops down...
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Author: Posluns, Michael, Asfeldt, Morten, Henderson, Bob, Hodgins, Bruce W., Osborne, S.L., Karram, Kerry, Coates, Ken S., Lackenbauer, P. Whitney, Morrion, William R., Poelzer, Greg, Dalton, Anthony, Troubetzkoy, Alexis S., Hamilton, John David, Coutu Radmore, Claudia, Seeger, PeteSummary:This special bundle is your essential guide to all things concerning Canada’s polar regions, which make up the majority of Canada’s territory but are places most of us will never visit. The Arctic...
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Author: Dalton, AnthonySummary:Presenting a special 2-book bundle of Anthony Dalton’s outstanding writing on Canada's polar regions, their history, and their greatest explorers. “Dalton does an excellent job … a very...
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Author: Dalton, AnthonySummary:Dewey Soper first travelled to the Arctic in 1923. During the next seven years he accepted three research postings on Baffin Island, each of which lasted between one and two years. In 1929 he...
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Author: McClure, Sir Robert, Dalton, AnthonySummary:For centuries, colonial powers searched for a sea passage that would link the Arctic and Pacific Oceans. The route, known as the Northwest Passage, would cut thousands of miles from sea travel and...
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Author: Dalton, AnthonySummary:No vessel that sailed the Arctic seas has raised so much speculation or triggered imaginations as has the legendary Hudson's Bay Company ship Baychimo. In the 1920s, Baychimo set up trading posts...
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Author: Dalton, AnthonySummary:From the era of wooden sailing ships and Europe’s golden age of exploration, the story of famed British navigator Henry Hudson tells a classic tale of courage, ambition, and treachery on the high...
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Author: Dalton, AnthonySummary:After Royal Navy captain Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in 1846 while seeking the Northwest Passage, the search for his two ships, Erebus and Terror, and survivors of his expedition...
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Author: Dalton, AnthonySummary:In the summer of 1984, Anthony Dalton embarked on a near-fatal voyage in a small open boat along the wild northwest coast of Alaska, attempting a solo transit of the Northwest Passage. His sea...
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Author: Dalton, AnthonySummary:Anson Northup, the first steamboat on the Canadian prairies, arrived in Fort Garry in 1859. Belching hot sparks and growling in fury, it was called "fire canoe" by the local Cree. The first steam-...
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Author: Dalton, AnthonySummary:On September 8, 1923, seven US Navy destroyers rammed into jagged rocks on the California coast. Twenty-three sailors died that night. Five years earlier, the Canadian Pacific passenger ship...
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Author: Dalton, AnthonySummary:Considered wise and powerful by the Inuit and other Native cultures, and celebrated in legend and literature, polar bears have become a charismatic symbol of animals threatened by climate change...
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Author: Dalton, AnthonySummary:In mid-July 1925, the SS Bayeskimo ran into heavy drift ice at the entrance to Hudson Strait. The ice carried her north, squeezing the steamer and testing the strength of her rivets. Helpless...
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Author: Dalton, AnthonySummary:On January 22, 1906, the passenger ship Valencia lost her way in heavy fog and rain and rammed into the deadly rocks at Pachena Point on the west coast of Vancouver Island. As the wreck was...