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Starting out in the afternoon: a mid-life journey into wild land
Par Jill Frayne. 2002
After Jill Frayne's long-term relationship with her lover ended and her daughter left home, she packed up her life and…
headed for the Yukon. Sleeping in her car or pitching a tent by the road, she became a solitary traveller and lived close to the natural world. What started out as a three-month trip became a personal journey that lasted several years. 2002.The sea hunters: true life adventures with famous shipwrecks
Par Clive Cussler, Craig Dirgo. 2003
A hunter of shipwrecks documents the discovery or survey of twelve major ships in deep waters. Each ship's story begins…
with an account of its final voyage, then describes how the ship was found. Featured are the Confederate submarine Hunley and the Allied troop transport Leopoldville, among others. 2003, c1996.The water in between: a journey at sea
Par Kevin Patterson. 1999
Kevin Patterson, fresh off a stint in the army and suffering from a broken heart, decided that he would sail…
from Vancouver to Tahiti and back. Although he knew little about boats or sailing he and a companion set out on an adventure that would take them around the world and force them to contemplate the reasons they set out on their journey.Space stories that really happened (Stories That Really Happened Ser.)
Par Andrew Donkin. 1999
In this collection of real-life space adventures, the reader can find out about the first astronaut ever to set out…
into the unknown; what it's like to walk on the surface of the moon; and the terrifying journey of Apollo 13. Grades 2-4.The full Montezuma: around Central America and the Caribbean with the girl next door
Par Peter Moore. 2001
Travel writer Peter Moore recently invited the new love of his life, a.k.a. the girl next door, to join him…
on a romantic sojourn through Central America. The trip would take them into an area of the world emerging from decades of civil war, an area racked with poverty, disease and natural disasters. Over the next six months they battled hurricanes, mosquitoes, uncooperative border officials and over-sexed Mexican commuters, and along the way they learnt rather more about each other than they really wanted to. 2001.The true story of how the crews of three Liberty ships, the old wartime freighters that were converted to commercial…
service after 1945, fought a series of devastating hurricanes in the Atlantic in the early 1950s. Some strong language. 2001.The spinster & the prophet: Florence Deeks, H.G. Wells, and the mystery of the purloined past
Par A. B McKillop. 2000
This volume examines the mystery behind Florence Deeks' 1925 lawsuit, which claimed that H. G. Wells plagiarized her manuscript in…
the writing of his international best-seller The Outline of History. In this exploration, McKillop introduces several sources, including renowned publishers, editors, lawyers, judges, and others, who come forward in this work to offer an account of one of the most notorious literary legal battles of the 20th century. 2000.Alone in the Appalachians: a city girl's trek from Maine to the Gaspésie
Par Monique Dykstra. 2002
Monica Dystra had always wanted to do a long-distance hike and thought it would be pretty easy. Two months, a…
thousand kilometres and countless blisters later, she knew better. Monica hiked the International Appalachian Trail from Maine all the way to Cap Gaspé, Québec. 2002.More than 250,000 courageous men and women were enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. These…
Canadians fought valiantly in every major air operation from the Battle of Britain to the bombing of Germany. Thousands lost their lives. Those who survived to tell their stories were forever changed. Here are some of their incredible stories. 2003.The Halifax explosion: surviving the blast that shook a nation (Amazing stories)
Par Joyce Glasner. 2003
A boat full of explosives heads in to the harbour as a large cargo ship steams out to sea. What…
happened next, on a fateful day in December 1917, is etched in history. At least 1900 people lost their lives and 9000 were injured when the largest man-made explosion ever experienced ripped through Halifax and nearby Dartmouth. Panic reigned as the survivors struggled to comprehend what had happened. 2003.The rope in the water: a pilgrimage to India
Par Sylvia Fraser. 2001
Sylvia Fraser's three-month pilgrimage to India in search of "something larger than myself, something deeper, something more." Travelling 12,000 kilometres…
as a solitary traveler across deserts and through jungles, she visits sacred sites such as the twilight city of Varanasi on the Ganges and the Golden Temple of the Sikhs; spends time with a Hindu sect up Mount Abu and meditates eleven hours a day for ten days in a Buddhist retreat while observing a vow of silence. 2001.The ice master: the doomed 1913 voyage of the Karluk
Par Jennifer Niven. 2000
The story of the 1913 expedition that sailed out of British Columbia in search of the Arctic continent. In January…
1914, an ice cap tore a hole in the vessel's hull, shipwrecking all on board. Drawing from diaries and an interview with the one living survivor, the author recreates the ill-fated journey and the crew's attempts to find their way home. 2000.The destruction of the Bismarck
Par David Jay Bercuson, Holger H Herwig. 2001
An account of the destruction of the feared but short-lived German WWII warship. The authors examine recently opened diplomatic files…
from England and America that provide new data concerning the supposedly neutral America's involvement in the hunt for the Bismarck. Also included are concise biographies of the major officers from both sides, brief histories of the major naval vessels involved, and an analysis of the crucial command decisions that sealed the Bismarck's fate. 2001.Dangerous planet: natural disasters that changed history
Par Bryn Barnard. 2003
Describes specific occurrences such as meteorite collisions, landslides, typhoons, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and earthquakes and explains their impact on human…
history. Discusses the King Blizzard of 1888 that paralyzed the east coast of the United States and brought about weather watching and city transportation improvements. Grades 5-8. 2003.February 1945. The war is almost over and Britain and America rule the waves, but sixty young Nazi soldiers still…
choose to undertake a mission in U-869 - to reach and bomb the coast of America. Several weeks later the boat barely has enough fuel to make it home and radio links with Germany are broken. The commander, Neuerberg, must make a tough decision: to carry on to America and risk death in the pursuit of glory, or to admit defeat and return home. Driven by pride, patriotism and determination, he decides to risk it. In 1991, a group of deep-sea divers hear about the wreck of a U-boat 260 feet beneath the sea. There are virtually no records of the Nazi submarine, and an on-location investigation is extremely dangerous. But twelve divers decide to take the risk. Over the next six years they eventually piece together an incredible story. 2004.Your rights (H wise guides)
Par Anita Naik. 1999
This guide tells children what rights they do and don't have in common situations. It covers laws relating to health,…
education, family, sex, work, the police and leisure. It also contains detailed contact addresses for getting further information and help in the UK and Republic of Ireland. For junior high readers.The windhorse
Par Elaine Brook, Julie Donnelly. 1986
Julie Donnelly has been blind since the age of eight - the result of glaucoma. She is a switchboard operator…
in a London bank and travels to and from work with her yellow Labrador guide dog, Bruno, her first release from the prison of blindness. She met Elaine Brook, an experienced mountaineer, and her horizons took another great leap. After learning to climb in this country they began to plan the impossible: the trek, in winter, to the 18,000 foot summit of Kala Patthar. 1986.Deep waters: courage, character and the Lake Timiskaming canoeing tragedy
Par James Raffan. 2002
On June 11, 1978, 27 boys and 4 leaders from St. John's School in Ontario set out on a canoeing…
expedition from the wharf at Timiskaming, Quebec, headed for James Bay. By the end of the day, 12 boys and one leader were dead, and the survivors were huddled together, waiting to be rescued. 2002.Titanic survivor: the memoirs of Violet Jessop, stewardess
Par Violet Jessop. 1998
Violet Jessop was a stewardess for first-class passengers on the "Titanic" when it sank on its maiden voyage in April…
1912. These memoirs give us a unique glimpse of life below decks, aboard a great ocean liner. We learn what life was like for those who worked on the ships: hilarious fellow stewardesses, cramped quarters, wartime alerts, impossible passengers, philandering shipmates, exotic ports, unrequited love and tragic deaths.A journalist's first-hand report on the ill-fated Mt. Everest expedition of May 1996 in which a freak storm claimed the…
lives of nine adventurers. Describes the gruelling ascent of the climbers, their sense of elation at reaching the peak, and the tragic events that followed. 1997.