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Hummocks

By (author) Jean Malaurie
Categories: Biography: general

Jean Malaurie is an anthropogeographer, a world-renowned expert on the Inuit, and the founder and director of the Editions Plon’s Terre Humaine anthropological series, whose authors include Claude Levi-Strauss ...

Madonna of the St. Denis Bar-BQ

By (author) Huguette O'Neil
Categories: Biography: general

The Madonna of the St. Denis Bar-BQ is a true account of a parent-child relationship, beginning with the details of the death of the author’s mother, Belle-Moue, and tracing her history back, chapter ...

The Scent of Eucalyptus

The fair-haired child of Canadian missionary parents, Daniel Coleman grew up with an ambivalent relationship to the country of his birth. He was clearly different from his Ethiopian playmates, but because ...

The Education of a Canadian

Gordon Skilling writes candidly of each way station in this personal odyssey: the idealism of his student years at the University of Toronto and Oxford; his presence in Czechoslovakia on the eve of the ...

Memoirs of a Very Civil Servant

By (author) Gordon Robertson
Categories: History of the Americas

Born in Saskatchewan in 1917, Gordon Robertson worked at the centre of government power from 1945 until his retirement in 1979. He worked directly with Prime Ministers King, St-Laurent, Pearson, and Trudeau, ...