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Clearing in the West: my own story
Par Nellie L McClung. 1965
Trekking west with her family in 1880, the author grew up on a Manitoba homestead and taught in prairie schools…
until her marriage. Also provides a clear picture of the important role women played in the frontier communities. 1965.Notes from the century before: a journal from British Columbia
Par Edward Hoagland. 1969
Love song to the Plains (A Regions of America book.)
Par Mari Sandoz. 1961
A gallery of dudes
Par Marshall Sprague. 1967
Nine travellers to the west between 1833 and the 1890's are immortalized in this entertaining piece of scholarly Americana. Only…
one of the dudes, Theodore Roosevelt, was a native American. 1967.L'empire désorienté
Par Catherine Bergman. 2001
Des origines à 1945 (Histoire du Japon et des Japonais. #1.)
Par Edwin O Reischauer. 1973
Une tragédie sans importance
Par William Shawcross, Françoise Bonnet. 1979
L'histoire d'un petit pays transforme en un vaste champ de bataille sanglant et témoin muet de l'affrontement d'une démocratie corrompue…
et du marxisme le plus totalitaire. C'est l'histoire vraie du Cambodge depuis l'invasion Américaine de 1970 jusqu'à l'occupation Vietnamienne actuelle. Descriptions régulières de violence. 1979. Titre uniforme: Sideshow.Biography of British biochemist Joseph Needham (1900-1995) discusses his intellectual development, marriage, and long-standing love affair with a visiting Chinese…
student. Features his travels to China and his investigations into the history of Chinese inventions and technology, including the compass, explosives, and suspension bridges. 2008.The crippled tree: China : biography, history and autobiography
Par Suyin Han. 1965
Women of the Long March: [the never before told story]
Par Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Sue Wiles. 1999
The Long March of 1934-5 is the central event in modern Chinese history. Virtually all of China's later Communist leaders…
took part, and the March has been the subject of many books and films. Most of what has already been written on the Long March is about the men: figures such as Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping. This is the story of the women who took part in the Long March, seen through the biographies of three key players. Lee and Wiles trace the women's stories in three time periods: the Long March itself, a decade later at liberation and then forty years later. Drawing on interviews and published and unpublished sources, it is a moving account of a little understood group of women. 1999.The Yamato dynasty: the secret history of Japan's imperial family
Par Sterling Seagrave, Peggy Seagrave. 1999
Authors of "The Marcos Dynasty" and "The Soong Dynasty" scrutinize Japan's royal family, gauge the extent of their complicity in…
World War II, and investigate alleged postwar collusion with General Douglas MacArthur in rebuilding the country. The Seagraves claim many Japanese business and political leaders are embroiled in corruption. 1999.Originally published in 1923, these stories tell of the pioneer women who helped to settle Manitoba. Included are the tales…
of the first European women in the West, and the recollections of Mrs. William Cowan, the oldest living settler, and Sister Laurent, who arrived in St. Boniface in 1850. 1987.Wolf willow: a history, a story, and a memory of the last plains frontier
Par Wallace Earle Stegner. 1962
When I was thirteen
Par Mary. Pseud McKenzie. 1979
This diary of a young girl in pioneer Ontario was written in 1897-1898 and published in a rural paper 20…
years later. Mary McKenzie is the pseudonym of Christina Young, daughter of John and Emma (Dawson) Young. 1979.Voice of the pioneer: more first-person accounts from CBC's best-loved radio program
Par Bill McNeil. 1984
Une mosaïque chinoise ((Roman policier))
Par France-Marie Watkins, Martine Leroy-Battistelli, Bette Lord. 1990
The silence of the North
Par Olive A Fredrickson, Ben East. 1972
In 1920, Olive Fredrickson married a trapper. She relates their many hardships: loneliness, near-starvation, and winter life in a primitive…
cabin. When her husband died, Olive was left with three children and a farm to manage. c1972.The village blacksmith
Par Aldren Auld Watson. 1968
A look into the bygone world of the old New England blacksmith. He shod horses, built wagons, buggies, sleds, and…
agricultural tools, and repaired harnesses. The author reveals the great variety of objects made from iron as well as how they were used. 1968.The legend of Grizzly Adams, California's greatest mountain man (Vintage West series)
Par Richard H Dillon. 1966
In 1837, at the age of 37, John Adams left Massachusetts for California where he hunted bear and other wildlife.…
He gradually assembled a menagerie of animals and exhibited them in San Francisco during the 1850s. Even with the facts separated from the legend, Adams continues to stand out as a bold and fearless man. 1966.The last emperor
Par Edward Behr. 1987
Pu Yi, the last Emperor of China, ascended the throne in 1908 at the age of 3. From a charmed…
existence in the Forbidden City, he was swept into the political intrigues of Asia and became the despised figurehead of Japan's Manchurian regime. 1987.