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The curse of the narrows: the Halifax explosion, 1917
Par Laura MacDonald. 2005
On December 7, 1917, in the heart of the World War I, two ships collided in Halifax harbour. The resulting…
explosion killed over 2,000 people and injured some 6,000 more. Macdonald presents the whole story of how the military, volunteers and ordinary citizens united to organize one of the most complex relief efforts in North American history. Descriptions of violence. 2005.Terror on the seas: true tales of modern-day pirates
Par Daniel Sekulich. 2009
Award-winning journalist investigates high-seas piracy, incidents of which occur on a near-daily basis worldwide and can involve detention, robbery, and…
violence. Interviews professional mariners, victims, and even perpetrators themselves to uncover the inner workings of criminal enterprises and gauge international economic and security threats in the early twenty-first century. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. 2009.Shorty, an aviation pioneer: the story of Victor John Hatton
Par James Glassco Henderson. 2004
Having survived the First World War in the trenches, Shorty Hatton started his aviation career in a near-fatal crash of…
an Avro 504K and ended it with another Avro aircraft, the Arrow. In the intervening years he was a military, bush, and test pilot, he taught fledgling aviators at Camp Borden, he was the first to fly new air mail routes in an open cockpit plane, and he tested newly-built Hawker Hurricanes before they joined the Battle of Britain. Some descriptions of sex. 2004.Eiger dreams: ventures among men and mountains
Par Jon Krakauer. 2009
Twelve accounts of mountaineering feats by the author of “Into Thin Air” (DC16741). In the title piece, Krakauer and a…
younger companion are waiting out bad weather conditions before assaulting the north face of the Eiger in Switzerland. Some strong language. 2009, c1990.Against the flow: the inspiring story of a teacher turned record-making yachtswoman
Par Dee Caffari, Elaine Bunting. 2007
More people have walked on the moon than have successfully completed a westabout circumnavigation. In 2006, Caffari became the first…
woman to sail solo around the world against the prevailing winds and currents, braving physical hardship in terrible conditions, overcoming solitude, sleep deprivation, the worry of crucial equipment failing, 34 days of gales, 12 metre waves, cyclones and a lightning strike. c2007.Vacation adventures on a cargo ship
Par Adrian Peetoom. 2008
Author Peetoom and his wife, Johanna, had long been fascinated by cargo ship travel as a way to journey to…
foreign ports. After Adrian retired, the couple embarked on two voyages: from Hamburg through the North Sea, the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal, across the bottom of Asia to ports in South Korea and China, and back; and from Savannah, Georgia, across the South Pacific to Australia and New Zealand. 2008.Five against the sea: a true story of courage and survival
Par Ron Arias. 1989
Five Costa Rican fishermen embarked on a routine fishing trip, but a freak storm ravaged their ship and they drifted…
in the Pacific for 142 days. They survived ferocious squalls, shark attacks, terrible thirst and a curious whale. The men finally were rescued near Honolulu, 4500 miles from home. 1989.A mysterious sighting
Par Michella Wyshengrad. 2010
Wild by nature: from Siberia to Australia, three years alone in the wilderness on foot
Par Sarah Marquis. 2014
Against nearly insurmountable odds and relying on hunting and her own wits, National Geographic Explorer Sarah Marquis survived the Mafia,…
drug dealers, thieves on horseback who harassed her tent every night for weeks, temperatures from sub-zero to scorching, life-threatening wildlife, a dengue fever delirium in the Laos jungle, tropic ringworm in northern Thailand, dehydration, and a life-threatening abscess. Describes her ten-thousand-mile solo hike across the remote Gobi Desert from Siberia to Thailand, at which point she was transported by boat to complete the hike at her favorite tree in Australia. 2014.The tiger: a true story of vengeance and survival
Par John Vaillant. 2010
Nature writer follows a government tiger-control team as it pursues an endangered Siberian tiger, which had killed a poacher, through…
Russia's far east in the winter of 1997. Explores the beauty of the setting, the tiger's strength, and the political and geographical forces that shaped this remote region. Canada Reads 2012. 2010.The perfect storm: a true story of men against the sea
Par Sebastian Junger. 1997
Recounts the 1991 loss at sea of the New England fishing boat "Andrea Gail" in the "perfect storm" that resulted…
from the explosive convergence of several high-energy weather fronts. Depicts a fisherman's harsh life and gives a likely account of the vessel's final hour before sinking. Vividly portrays failed rescue efforts and people drowning. 1997.The ice passage: a true story of ambition, disaster, and endurance in the arctic wilderness
Par Brian Payton. 2009
Four and a half years after the disappearance of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin and his two ships, HMS Investigator…
sets sail in search of them. Instead of rescuing lost comrades, the Investigator's officers and crew soon find themselves trapped in their own ordeal, facing starvation, madness, and death. If only they can save themselves, they will bring back news of a great achievement: their discovery of the elusive Northwest Passage. 2009.In the heart of the sea: the tragedy of the whaleship Essex
Par Nathaniel Philbrick. 2000
The epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the nineteenth century which was the inspiration…
for Herman Melville's classic novel "Moby Dick". The author uses a hitherto unknown diary of one of the survivors discovered in an attic in Connecticut in 1998 to tell the tale. Winner of the 2000 National Book Award for Nonfiction. 2000.Last hours on Everest: the gripping story of Mallory & Irvine's fatal ascent
Par Graham Hoyland. 2013
In 1924, George Mallory and Sandy Irvine disappeared into the mists of history: Mallory's body was discovered on Everest in…
1999, and Irvine's body is still believed to be there. Graham Hoyland's compelling description of what actually happened on that day answers that most intriguing of questions - did they actually climb Everest? 2013.Gone Viking: A Travel Saga
Par Bill Arnott. 2020
Bill Arnott guides readers on an epic literary odyssey following history’s most feared and misunderstood voyageurs: the Vikings!To “go Viking”…
is to embark on an epic journey. For more than eight years, Bill Arnott journeyed throughout the northern hemisphere, discovering sites Scandinavian explorers raided, traded, and settled – finding Viking history in a wider swath of the planet than most anthropologists and historians ever imagined.With a small pack and weatherproof journal, Bill explores and writes with a journalist’s eye, songwriter’s prose, poet’s perspective, and a comedian’s take on everything else. Prepare yourself for an armchair adventure like no other!From Europe to Asia, the Mediterranean to the British Isles, through Scandinavia to Iceland, Greenland, and the New World, with further excursions around Thor Heyerdahl’s Pacific, Roald Amundsen’s Arctic, and Olaf Crowbone’s stormy North Atlantic, Bill takes readers on a mythic personal adventure in real time – a present-day Viking quest.This Strange Visible Air: Essays on Aging and the Writing Life
Par Sharon Butala. 2021
A collection of essays on women and aging from Canadian legend Sharon Butala "What I didn't have a clue about…
was that I was soon to be old, or what being old would mean to my dreams and desires. While dreading old age with every fibre, I was at the same time in full denial that it would ever happen to me, and so, was shocked down to the soles of my feet when it did." In this incisive collection, Sharon Butala reflects on the ways her life has changed as she's grown old. She knows that society fails the elderly massively, and so she tackles ageism and loneliness, friendship and companionship. She writes with pointed wit and acerbic humour about dinner parties and health challenges and forgetfulness and complicated family relationships and the pandemic -- and lettuce. And she tells her story with the tremendous skill and beauty of a writer who has masterfully honed her craft over the course of her storied four-decade career. Butala gives us a book to be cherished -- an elegant and expansive look at the complexities and desires of aging and the aged, standing in stark contrast to the stereotyped, simplistic portrayals of the elderly in our culture. This Strange Visible Air is a true gift.The story of King Arthur and his knights: retold from the Howard Pyle original (Classic starts)
Par Howard Pyle, Dan Andreasen, Tania Zamorsky. 2006
The unofficial Harry Potter joke book: howling hilarity for Hufflepuff (Unofficial Harry Potter joke book)
Par Brian Boone, Amanda Brack. 2019
Hundreds of jokes and riddles a Hufflepuff would love. Includes categories such as fantastic beasts, a whole new Newt world,…
and jokes that are utterly riddikulus! For grades 2-4 and older readers. 2019The upside-down voyage
Par Don L. Wulffson, Dennis Lyall. 2007
"...This is a story of the surreal seven-year adventure of Bruce Gordon, a young seafaring lad who emerged from the…
wreckage of a whaler somewhere in the Arctic seas, befriended a polar bear cub, and survived to tell about it."Garnered from writings about sailing and the sea, this book transports readers to remote polar waters, lee shores, forbidding capes,…
and into the hearts of tempests. Here is triumph, disaster, love, courage, guilt, rescue, and death as man or woman pits all against the sea