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Sailing home: a journey through time, place & memory
Par Gary Geddes. 2001
Poet, writer, and critic, Gary Geddes, sets out to discover his roots in a 31-foot British sailing sloop called the…
Groais. Sailing up British Columbia's famed Inside Passage, an ancient sea route of nearly one thousand miles and an often turbulent waterscape, Geddes discovers a vibrant history, livelihoods come and gone, dramatic scenery, and ghosts of the past. 2001.Rogue diamonds: the rush for northern riches on Dene land
Par E Bielawski. 2003
Diamonds were first discovered on the Barren Grounds near Yellowknife in 1991. in 1996 Indian Affairs Minister Ron Irwin gave…
Canada's first diamond mine conditional approval, subject to "significant progress in sixty days" on agreements between various companies. Ellen Bielawski was there. 2003.Sable Island
Par Bruce Armstrong. 1981
Sable Island, known as "the graveyard of the Atlantic" because of the 500 ships wrecked off its shores, has become…
better known in recent years as the home of wild horses. 1981.Rowed trip: from Scotland to Syria by oar
Par Colin Angus, Julie Angus. 2009
2006. Adventurers Julie and Colin Angus were checking a map of Europe when Julie noticed an interconnected water route from…
Colin's parents' homeland of Scotland past her mother's homeland, Germany, and on to her father's, Syria. What started as a funny idea of rowing to visit relatives resulted in an odyssey by oar (and bike) where Julie and Colin tested their relationship while exploring their roots. Some strong language. 2010, c2009.Rolling home: a cross-Canada railroad memoir
Par Tom Allen. 2001
Tom Allen travels with his family and alone, from Halifax to the interior of British Columbia, riding everything from a…
two-car dayliner held together with duct tape to a luxury rail cruiser through the Rockies that is packed with wealthy tourists. Along the way, he meets honeymooners and abandoned spouses, ordinary folk and deranged passengers, and veteran railwaymen who sustain pride in their work despite the massive cuts to their industry. Allen weaves his own memories of railroad travel with a family narrative past and present, all the while conjuring the drama, the disappointments, and the magic of Canada's railway history. 2001.River in a dry land: a prairie passage
Par Trevor Herriot. 2000
The author recounts summer days as a youth on a 70-acre piece of land on Saskatchewan's Qu'Appelle River, and introduces…
his immediate and extended family, most of whom are farmers. He describes the effect of mining on the river and the valley, retells Cree and Metis legends, and also describes the more recent experiences of the Russians, Finns, Jews, Scots, and English who have settled in the area. A mixture of family history, ecology, and social commentary which laments the loss of rural culture. 2000.Ride the rising wind: one woman's journey across Canada
Par Barbara Bradbury Kingscote. 2006
In May 1949, at the age of twenty, Barbara Kingscote left her farm in Mascouche, Quebec, and set out for…
the Pacific Ocean on horseback. Barbara and her equine companion Zazy reached the West Coast just over a year later. After travelling 4,000 miles, she discovered both herself and her country on the journey of a lifetime. 2006.Ribbon of highway: by bus along the Trans-Canada
Par Kildare Dobbs. 1992
Reflections in a writer's eye: travel pieces
Par Angus Wilson. 1986
A collection of the author's travel writings dating from 1957 to 1984. Whether visiting South Africa and observing apartheid, or…
glimpsing Khrushchev in the Soviet Union, Wilson reveals his intense pleasure in travel. 1986.Reading the river: a traveller's companion to the North Saskatchewan River
Par Myrna Kostash, Duane Burton. 2006
A compendium of writings including poetry, fiction and non-fiction, from those who have spent time reading the river. Beginning at…
the rivers source, Kostash takes the reader through 21 communities along the North Saskatchewan. Includes the work of Hugh McLennan, Eli Mandel, Aritha van Herk, John V. Hicks and Thompson Highway. c2006.Ragged islands: a journey by canoe through the Inside Passage
Par Michael Poole. 1991
This is one man's odyssey on the sea off the coast of B.C. during the summer of 1987. For three…
months, filmmaker Poole guided his canoe along a confusing labyrinth of waterways, exploring the environment, and meeting some colourful and unique characters along the way. This is both a travelogue and a commentary of a way of life in flux. 1991.Racing the white silence: on the trail of the Yukon Quest
Par Adam Killick. 2002
Journalist Killick follows the route of the 1,600+ mile Yukon Quest Race, describing the participants and their dogs, the terrible…
beauty and danger of the wilderness they cross, and the psychological and physical challenges they must endure. The Yukon Quest, called the toughest race on earth, reveals itself to be a reflection of the participants' lives and their daily struggle for existence. 2002.Pleins gaz (Vis-à-vies)
Par Ivan Steenhout, John Pitt. 1986
L'auteur abandonne sa vie routinière et ennuyeuse et part à l'aventure sur sa moto. Dans ce livre, il raconte son…
voyage de 32,000 milles à travers les Amériques à l'âge de 61 ans. Quelques descriptions de nature sexuelle. 1986.Pole to pole: With Michael Palin
Par Michael Palin. 1992
The second of Michael Palin's Great Twentieth Century Adventures. He and his team set out to travel from one end…
of the earth to another, following the 30 degree east line of longitude, using aircraft only as a last resort and enduring extremes of heat and cold as they crossed 17 countries on trains, trucks, ships, rafts, ski-doos, buses, barges, bicycles and balloons. 1992.Gens de rivières
Par André Noël. 1994
Reportages sur dix rivières du Québec et sur un fleuve en Inde. Précédés d'un historique sur le rôle qu'ont joué…
les rivières dans le développement du Québec, ces reportages tracent le portrait des gens très différents, mais qui partagent un même amour de l'eau vive. 1994.Pilgrimage on a steelride: a memoir about men and motorcycles
Par Gary Paulsen. 1997
In contemplating the facts of his life on his fifty-seventh birthday, Paulsen decides that having heart disease is no reason…
to stop having adventures. He fulfills a longtime dream to own a Harley and take to the road. He describes his reflections on his round-trip from New Mexico to Alaska. Some strong language. 1997.Amériquoisie ((Collection Cadastres).)
Par Jean Désy. 2016
C'est au fil de mes pérégrinations dans tout le territoire de la péninsule Québec-Labrador, dans les villes le long du…
Saint-Laurent, au sud, mais surtout au nord, sur la Côte-Nord / Nitassinan, à la Baie-James / Eeyou Istchee et dans le Grand Nord / Nunavik, que j'ai fini par mieux comprendre les extraordinaires qualités de la vie métisse. À n'en point douter, l'avenir harmonieux de ce pays passe par la métisserie. Amériquoisie rassemble des essais portant sur l'autochtonie, le nomadisme, le paysage et la nordicité. Témoin, auteur, promeneur et acteur, Jean Désy court le territoire et nous parle de cette aventure dite métisserie. 2016.Maudit hiver: toutes les raisons de ne pas l'aimer
Par Alain Dubuc. 2016
" Avec une durée moyenne de cinq mois, l'hiver au Québec, on peut dire que ça nous connaît! Peu d'entre…
nous savent cependant que Montréal, avec sa température moyenne de -8,3°C en hiver, est la métropole la plus froide du monde. Cela fait-il de nous des Nordiques au même titre que les Scandinaves, qui, géographiquement, vivent beaucoup plus au nord que nous? Quel est notre réel rapport à l'hiver? Combien nous coûte-t-il, tant individuellement que collectivement? Y sommes-nous acclimatés ou nous contentons-nous d'y survivre? Serions-nous en train de tourner le dos à l'hiver? Avec la rigueur et la verve qu'on lui connaît, Alain Dubuc s'indigne contre l'hiver et, au passage, remet en question notre "nordicité". " -- 4e de couv.Paddlenorth: adventure, resilience, and renewal in the Arctic wild
Par Jennifer Kingsley. 2014
Paddlenorth tells the riveting story of Kingsley's 54 day paddling adventure on the Back River, in the northern wilderness of…
the subarctic, as she and her five companions battle raging winds, impenetrable sea ice, and treacherous rapids. The perils include rising tensions among the group, but these are tempered by grizzly sightings, icy swims, and the caribou's summer migration. Woven through this spellbinding narrative are the harrowing accounts of earlier explorers, some of whom perished, but whose traces along the river warn us against romantic notions of the wild. Paddlenorth paints an indelible portrait of the spectacular northern landscape and eloquently explores what wilderness means to us. 2014.Out standing in their field: the rural adventures of Hap & Edna
Par Robert Collins. 2000
Meet Hap and Edna Fitzpatrick, BC's best loved farm couple, and tag along on their rural adventures and misadventures. The…
tales they tell feature a colourful cast of hilarious characters, both human and animal. 2000.