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The dolphin's tooth: a decade in search of adventure
Par Bruce Kirkby. 2005
Stuck in an engineer's cubicle and tormented by doubts and boredom, Kirkby quit his job to bicycle the Karakoram Highway…
in northern Pakistan. Over the next fifteen years, he undertook some of the most challenging expeditions the world has to offer, including running Africa's Blue Nile Gorge, climbing Mount Everest, or learning to embrace the wilderness on the Tatshenshini River of Canada's Arctic. 2005.On the road again
Par Wayne Rostad. 1996
Rostad revisits some of most interesting guests on his television show, "On the Road Again." Some of the extraordinary people…
he introduces are a Newfoundland man who is a connoisseur and salesman of fine iceberg ice, a couple in British Columbia who won the lottery but kept on running the town garbage dump, an Alberta man who eats bugs, and a Quebec woman who has adopted 24 disabled children.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.The lost continent: travels in small-town America
Par Bill Bryson. 2002
Bryson describes his cross-country journey to revisit what he deems the "magic places" of his youth, beginning with his hometown…
of Des Moines, Iowa, and including the Rocky Mountains. Reminisces about his childhood and his father as he recounts adventures across thirty-eight states and 13,978 miles. Some strong language. c1989, 2002.After a thirty-year career as high profile vet, columnist, presenter and author, Bruce Fogle - the UK's bestselling cat &…
dog writer - decided to leave urban Britain and take a journey with his dog Macy. Travelling in the footsteps of the great American novelist John Steinbeck, who published Travels with Charley - his standard poodle - in the '60s, Fogle set off in search of the North America of his childhood. 2006.Winter
Par Pierre Berton. 1994
Pierre Berton considers what it means to live in the north, what we do to survive the season, ways we…
celebrate it and how, specifically, we hate it. The book is filled with personal reminiscences, popular history, "big storm" statistics, and seasonal sports, including the attempt to deny winter altogether by escaping to malls and Miami. 1994.Wind, whales and whiskey: a Cape Breton voyage
Par Silver Donald Cameron. 1991
In 1990 Cameron, along with his wife and son, sailed their cutter the "Silversark" around Cape Breton Island. At each…
stop along the way, they discovered a place rich in history and filled with extraordinary inhabitants. A detailed and engaging account of a different sort of summer vacation. 1991.Wild: [récit]
Par Cheryl Strayed. 2013
Lorsque sur un coup de tête, Cheryl Strayed boucle son sac à dos, elle n'a aucune idée de ce qui…
l'attend. Tout ce qu'elle sait, c'est que sa vie est un désastre. Entre une mère trop aimée, brutalement disparue, un divorce douloureux et un lourd passé de junkie, Cheryl vacille. Pour tenir debout et affronter les fantômes de son passé, elle choisit de s'en remettre à la nature et de marcher. Elle part seule pour une randonnée de mille sept cents kilomètres sur le Chemin des crêtes du Pacifique, un parcours abrupt et sauvage de l'Ouest américain. Au fil de cette longue route, elle va surmonter douleurs et fatigue pour renouer avec elle-même et finalement trouver sa voie. 2013.Wilderness mother: The Chronicle Of A Modern Pioneer
Par Deanna Kawatski. 1994
In 1978, the author began a job as the first female fire tower attendant in BC, in the remote Ningunsaw…
Valley. In this setting she met her woodsman husband and brought up two children. An account of living life to the fullest in the challenging northwest wilderness of British Columbia. 1994.Wilderness seasons: life and adventure in Canada's north
Par Ian Wilson, Sally Wilson. 1987
The authors relate how they fulfilled their dream of leaving the city to live in isolation in the wilderness. They…
tell of building a log cabin to survive the harsh winter, and their other experiences. c1987.Wild stone heart: an apprentice in the fields
Par Sharon Butala. 2000
Writer Sharon Butala and her husband, Peter, decided to let a field on their Saskatchewan land return to its natural…
state. Over a twenty-year period, she ruminated over its secrets, travelling back in time from the dinosaur period and the Ice Age to the more recent life of the Amerindians and the arrival of the settlers, ranging over prehistory, natural history, Amerindian custom, the farming and ranching ways of life, and the politics of the West today. As she tried to understand its lessons, the field became a tabula rasa on which she could project her own dreams and imaginings. 2000.Why we act like Canadians: a personal exploration of our national character
Par Pierre Berton. 1982
In this essay which takes the form of letters written to an American friend, Berton's conviction is that Canadian culture…
has its own unique origins and that we are a people quite distinct from Americans. 1982.Who's your city?: how the creative economy is making where to live the most important decision of your life
Par Richard L Florida. 2008
Florida posits that where you live affects every aspect of your life. Focuses on various types of communities - gay,…
straight, affluent, low-income, and others - and on the different life stages, such as single, married with children, and empty nester, of community residents. Discusses the "geography of happiness." 2008.Whatever happened to Maggie and other people I've known
Par Edna Staebler. 1983
This collection of pieces read like fiction, but have the impact of real life. Ranges from Memmonites in Kitchener, Hutterites…
in Alberta, an orphanage in Nova Scotia, and the fishermen on Cape Breton Island. 1983.For her 50th birthday, Jane Christmas finds herself leading fourteen women along the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, a centuries-old…
European pilgrimage route. Before she leaves, Christmas consults with a psychic, who warns of catfights, lost jewelry, encounters with celebrities, a visit from Death, and a fair-haired man. After less than a week, Christmas sets out on her own, battling loneliness, hunger, and exhaustion while encountering charming villages, forests, more compatible pilgrims - and a fair-haired man. Some descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. 2007.The author focuses on the part of the CPR which was built through the Rocky Mountains. He describes the various…
routes, the problems faced by engineers, and the construction of bridges and tunnels. 1987.Western and eastern rambles: travel sketches of Nova Scotia
Par Joseph Howe, M. G Parks. 1973
In 1828, Joseph Howe, still only in his early twenties, began publishing a series of travel sketches in his newspaper,…
the "Novascotian." Written during his frequent travels in his province, they provide a unique account of the Nova Scotia of the nineteenth century. c1973.Welcome home: travels in smalltown Canada
Par Stuart McLean. 1992
Wanderer on my native shore
Par George Reiger. 1983
Walking the line
Par Marian Botsford Fraser. 1989
The author walked the Canadian-American border, visiting people on both sides in an effort to understand what it means to…
them. She discovered living memories, legends and stories present in family albums and graveyards. 1989.