David Thompson's Travels is one of the finest early expressions of the Canadian experience. The work is not only the account of a remarkable life in the fur trade but an extended meditation on the land and Native peoples of western...
Explorers
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Author:Thompson, David, Moreau, William E.Summary: -
Author:Medina, NicoSummary:Hold on to your Viking helmets as you learn about the first known European to set foot on North America in this exciting addition to the Who Was? Series! Leif Erikson was born to be an explorer. His father, Erik the Red, had established...
- Author:Wilkes, AllySummary:
"Haunting...Ominous." - The New York Times Book Review A "wonderfully chilling" (Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author) polar gothic about a Victorian explorer in search of his lost shipmate-and...
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Author:McDowell, JimSummary:Jim McDowell’s new biography of the little-known Spanish explorer José María Narváez, reveals his significant discoveries during the European exploration of what is now Canada’s Pacific Northwest Coast. Narváez was the first European to...
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Author:Marie-Claude DenysSummary:D'un côté, Samuel de Champlain, navigateur, géographe, explorateur, fondateur, personnage plus grand que nature, cependant figé depuis 1898. De l'autre, Marie, professeure d'informatique au secondaire, mère...
- Author:Druett, JoanSummary:
Tupaia sailed with Captain Cook from Tahiti, piloted the Endeavour about the South Pacific, and interceded with Maori in NZ. Tupaia, a gifted linguist, a brilliant orator, and a most devious politician, was highly skilled in astronomy,...
- Author:Gísli PálssonSummary:
Vilhjalmur Stefansson has long been known for his groundbreaking work as an anthropologist and expert on Arctic peoples. His three expeditions to the Canadian Arctic in the early 1900s, as well as his expertise in northern anthropology...
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Author:Twigg, AlanSummary:For his third volume about BC literary history, Alan Twigg traces the writings of David Thompson, Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser and thirty of their peers, mainly Scotsmen, who founded and managed more than fifty forts west of the...
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Author:Lawrence, IainSummary:An account--from the point of view of a pony--of what it was like to be part of Captain Robert Scott's 1910 expedition to reach the South Pole before rival Roald Amundsen.
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Author:Barrett, AndreaSummary:In 1885 Erasmus Darwin Wells embarks an expedition to the Arctic to search for the explorer, John Franklin. Erasmus' fears of failure seem to be realized when the voyage threatens to turn violent.
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Author:Neering, RosemarySummary:They endured the torments of scurvy and the vagaries of deep fogs, adverse winds, and contrary currents. They suffered through appalling quarters and rotting food. They spent years away from their homes and families, never knowing...
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Author:Anderson, Nancy MargueriteSummary:Fifteen years before the 1858 Fraser River gold rush, a Hudson’s Bay Company clerk named Alexander Caulfield Anderson threaded his way through mountain passes and down rapids-filled rivers in search of a safe all-British route through...
- Author:Larsen, AndrewSummary:
It's almost Poppa's birthday and young Theo wants to give her beloved grandfather the perfect gift. Poppa has traveled the world and keeps a trunk full of mementos collected on his adventures. That gives Theo an idea for a very special...
- Author:Trueit, TrudiSummary:
A heart-pounding final showdown changes the life of Cruz Coronado forever in the seventh and final book in this thrilling fact-based fiction series. Amid assignments that take the Explorer Academy recruits from the iceberg-filled waters...
- Author:Osborne, DavidSummary:
A novel of native-white relations in North America, intimately told through the life of Daytime Smoke -- the real-life red-haired son of William Clark and a Nez Perce woman. In 1805, Lewis and Clark stumble out of the Rockies on the...
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Author:Winter, Michael, DeWitt, PatrickSummary:In 1914, the American artist Rockwell Kent escapes his bustling life in New York City for the quaint, rural town of Brigus, Newfoundland. He has been drawn north by the picturesque landscape of the Atlantic, seeking a simpler, quieter...
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Author:Robinson, MariletaSummary:Explore! Spot gets caught in the rain. This silly puppy can't resist playing in a puddle. When Spot hurts his foot, a bandage makes him feel better. Spot watches a caterpillar crawl onto his paw. Spot smells foot prints, where will the...
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Author:Cox, LynneSummary:A powerfully built man more than six feet tall, Amundsen's career of adventure began at the age of fifteen (he was born in Norway in 1872 to a family of merchant sea captains and rich ship owners). Twenty-five years later he was the...
- Author:Richler, MordecaiSummary:
Moses Berger est encore enfant quand il entend pour la première fois parler de Solomon Gursky. Ce personnage mystérieux deviendra bientôt pour lui une obsession qui l'incitera à mener une vaste enquête aux quatre coins du monde. Toute...
- Author:Blevins, WinfredSummary:
Escaping his life in 1820s Pennsylvania, young Sam Morgan joins the crew of a riverboat. Mixing with an eclectic group of scoundrels and misfits, Sam finds adventure at every turn on the American frontier.
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