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John Franklin: l'homme qui mangea ses bottes
Par Anne Pons. 2009
Alors que le réchauffement climatique provoque aujourd'hui la fonte de la banquise arctique, peut-on imaginer que tant d'hommes, tant de…
marins se soient jadis acharnés, au prix de mille souffrances, à trouver ce mythique passage du Nord -Ouest qui devait permettre d'aller directement de l'Atlantique au Pacifique et ouvrir un raccourci vers les richesses de l'Orient ? Ce livre est l'histoire de l'un d'entre eux, l'Anglais John Franklin, ancien de Trafalgar, dont les expéditions successives tinrent en haleine, dans la première moitié du XIXe siècle, la Grande-Bretagne, l'Europe et l'Amérique. Lui et ses hommes arpentèrent des terres inconnues, endurant les rigueurs des hautes latitudes, s'obstinant à forcer le barrage des glaces, découvrant les Indiens et les Esquimaux qu'ils rencontraient pour la première fois, et allant jusqu'à dévorer le cuir de leurs chaussures pour survivre. On ne peut rien comprendre à leur odyssée héroïque sans dénoncer les orgueilleuses traditions de l'Amirauté britannique qui les retenaient d'adopter les vêtements, la nourriture et les coutumes leur permettant d'échapper à la famine et au froid. Drame trop prévisible, la disparition de Franklin en 1845 avec les 129 hommes de l'Erebus et du Terror déclencha une cinquantaine d'expéditions lancées à leur recherche pendant plus de dix ans, grâce au soutien inconditionnel de sa romanesque épouse, lady fane, qui refusa jusqu'au bout de croire à sa mort. Quelques corps ont été retrouvés, il y a seulement une trentaine d'années.Lady Franklin's revenge: a true story of ambition, obsession, and the remaking of Arctic history
Par Kenneth McGoogan. 2005
Lady Franklin rode a donkey into Nazareth, sailed up the Nile, and beat her way through the Tasmanian bush wearing…
petticoats. When her husband, Sir John Franklin, disappeared into the Arctic in 1845, she orchestrated a 12-year search, and though she failed to rescue Franklin, she contributed more to the discovery of the North than any celebrated explorer. 2005.J'ai chevauché les océans
Par Mike Birch, Olivier Peretié. 2017
Premier vainqueur de la mythique Route du Rhum, Mike Birch est devenu célèbre à 47 ans. A l'âge où les…
marins songent à leur reconversion, ce Canadien commençait une brillante carrière de coureur au large, terminant toujours aux avant-postes des épreuves qui devaient transformer la voile océanique en sport spectacle. Seul à bord d'un petit trimaran jaune, il avait triomphé dans les derniers mètres de cette course endeuillée par la disparition d'Alain Colas. Deux ans plus tôt, à bord d'une minuscule libellule à trois coques, ce parfait inconnu avait déjà fait sensation en terminant sa première transat sur les talons d'Éric Tabarly. Pourtant, ce surdoué du vent n'avait pas d'eau salée dans les veines. Avant de s'élancer seul en mer, il avait été mineur de fond, ouvrier du pétrole, cow-boy, docker, matelot au commerce, mécanicien auto et enfin convoyeur de yachts. Toujours discret, modeste, économe de mots comme de gestes, cet artiste du grand large a enfin consenti à raconter ses mille vies dans ces mémoires étonnants, savoureux, poignants. 2017.Cette nuit, la mer est noire
Par Florence Arthaud, Jean-Louis Bachelet. 2015
" Le samedi 29 octobre 2011, alors qu'elle naviguait seule à bord de son voilier, Florence Arthaud tombe à l'eau,…
au large du cap Corse. Isolée, en pleine nuit, sans gilet de sauvetage, la navigatrice va affronter la mort pendant de longues heures. Elle restera en vie grâce à une série de petits miracles : une lampe frontale, un téléphone portable étanche, du réseau et sa mère qui veillait en pleine nuit. Dans ce livre confession, Florence Arthaud revient sur cet épisode tragique. Elle livre les sentiments, les pensées et les souvenirs qui l'ont accompagnée alors qu'elle se noyait en pleine mer. " -- 4e de couv.La Vérendrye (The Canadians)
Par Mary Lile Benham. 1980
All children have different eyes: learn to play and make friends
Par Edie A Glaser, Maria R Burgio. 2007
Exploring the frozen North: An Omnibus (Pierre Berton's history for young Canadians.)
Par Pierre Berton. 2006
Documents the amazing lives of the men and women who mapped the Arctic at great personal cost. They include Jane…
Franklin, who rallied British and American sailors to comb the Arctic islands in her relentless search for her lost explorer husband, and William Edward Parry, the first white man to attempt exploration of the Arctic islands. Grades 5-8. 2006.Cataract surgery: a patient's guide to cataract treatment
Par Uday Devgan. 2008
More than 2.5 million Canadians have cataracts, with many needing surgery. This handbook covers the most frequently asked questions, such…
as What type of new lens is implanted in the eye? What type of anesthesia is used? Is there pain after the surgery? and How soon will vision improve? 2008.Farthest north: The Quest For The North Pole
Par Clive Holland. 1994
The story of man's attempt to reach the North Pole is told using excerpts from sailors' journals, ships' log and…
other primary sources combined with the author's narrative. The adventurers' successes, failures, and the challenges they faced are recounted in these testimonies which cover over 400 years worth of adventure. 1994.Jungle islands: my South Sea adventure (Adventure Travel Books)
Par Maria Coffey, Debora Pearson. 2000
Join Maria on her kayaking trip though the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. She paddles to remote villages…
which haven't seem outsiders in years, visits the Skull Island burial ground, confronts a ferocious crocodile, sleeps in a leaf hut, and explores the jungle. Learn what it's like to visit a coral reef 'garden', where the bathrooms are in the jungle, and what kids love about life in the Solomons. Grades 3-6. 2000.Journeys of the great explorers: Columbus to Cook (The modern scholar)
Par Glyndwr Williams. 2004
In this course, University of London history professor Glyndwr Williams will discuss one of the most dramatic periods in world…
history, the age of Europe's discovery of the world from Columbus and da Gama in the late fifteenth century to the voyages of James Cook in the eighteenth century. 2004.John Wesley Powell: explorer of the Grand Canyon (Historical American biographies)
Par Roger Bruns. 1997
Briefly describes Powell's early years, marriage, and Civil War service, followed by a more detailed portrait of his life as…
an explorer. Recalls his contributions as an adventurer, conservationist, geologist, and anthropologist. Junior High. c1997.Jolliet and Marquette: explorers of the Mississippi River (Explorers of new worlds)
Par Daniel E Harmon. 2002
Describes the travels of French explorers Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, and Louis Jolliet, a trader, who sailed down the…
Mississippi River in 1673 hoping to find a westward route across America. Grades 5-8. 2002.Island of the blue foxes: disaster and triumph on Bering's great voyage to Alaska
Par Stephen R Bown. 2017
The Great Northern Expedition was the most ambitious and well-financed scientific expedition in history, lasting nearly ten years and spanning…
three continents. Conceived by Peter the Great in the 1730s and led by Danish mariner Vitus Bering, the enterprise involved a cavalcade of nearly three thousand scientists, secretaries, interpreters, artists, surveyors, naval officers, mariners, soldiers and labourers, all of whom had to be brought across five thousand miles of roadless forests, swamps and tundra, along with tools, supplies, libraries and scientific implements--as well as the clavichord belonging to Bering's wife, Anna. Scientific objectives included investigating flora, fauna and minerals as well as outlandish rumours about the Siberian peoples. After the expedition reached the eastern coast of Asia, Bering oversaw the construction of two ships, the St. Peter and St. Paul, and sailed for America with one hundred and fifty men. The voyage was plagued by ill fortune--a supply ship failed to arrive, officers quarrelled and the ships were separated in a storm. While St. Paul reached Alaska and reported back to Russia, Bering's ship, St. Peter, was wrecked on a desolate island in the Aleutian Chain inhabited by feral foxes. A true-life adventure story of personal and cultural animosities, unimaginable Gothic horrors and ingenuity in the face of adversity. Winner of the 2018 Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction. 2017.Buried
Par Ken Wylie. 2014
A survivor's account of the avalanche that struck the Selkirk Range of British Columbia on January 20, 2003, burying 13…
members of two guided backcountry skiing groups, and killing seven. 2014. Uniform title: Canadian electronic library.Into the ice: the story of Arctic exploration
Par Lynn Curlee. 1998
Describes the history of human exploration of the ice cap surrounding the North Pole. At first the Inuit people were…
the only people in this Arctic region. Then, over the centuries, various explorers came to kill animals and to try to locate the exact North Pole. Grades 3-6. 1998.Into the silence: the Great War, Mallory and the conquest of Everest
Par Wade Davis. 2012
While the quest for Mount Everest may have begun as a grand imperial gesture, it ended as a mission of…
revival for a country and a lost generation bled white by war. In a monumental work of history and adventure, Davis asks not whether George Mallory was the first to reach the summit of Everest, but rather why he kept climbing on that fateful day. 2012.In the land of the red goat
Par Bob Henderson. 2006
At age 18, Bob Henderson abandoned his privileged life for the challenges of the mountains of northern B.C. Mentored by…
the Tlogot'ine Indians and a few veteran guides, he adapted to the vagaries of packhorses, float planes, grizzly bears and bureaucrats. His stories recount four decades of wrangling, guiding, flying and fishing. 2006.In the footsteps of Genghis Khan
Par John DeFrancis. 1993
DeFrancis writes of how, as a young man in the 1930s, he retraced the travels of Genghis Khan through China.…
Along the way he became prisoner of a Muslim warlord, travelled down the bandit-infested Yellow River, and dodged fighting by Communists nearing the end of their Long March. 1993.In a crystal land: Canadian explorers in Antarctica
Par Dean Beeby. 1994
The author recounts the adventures of the many Canadians who explored Antarctica. More than a dozen Canadians were recruited for…
south polar expeditions because of their cold-weather expertise. Beeby uses journals, logbooks, letters, and interviews to tell their stories. 1994.