Expeditions & Discoveries

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Bush Runner

The first European to explore the upper Mississippi, as well as the namesake of ships and hotel chains, Pierre-Esprit Radisson is perhaps best described, writes Mark Bourrie, as “an eager hustler with ...

The Raftsmen

By (author) Ryan Barnett
Illustrated by Dmitry Bondarenko
Categories: Travel guides: adventure holidays

In The Raftsmen, author and documentary filmmaker Ryan Barnett takes readers on an astonishing maritime adventure set in the aftermath of World War II. For four French expatriates who escaped the clutches ...

Gold Rush!

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Ruée vers l’or ! Eldorado en Colombie-Britannique
9780660031422

Some say that Western Canada began with the railway. In fact, it began with a gold rush. Relive the tumultuous ...

Acts of Occupation

By (author) Janice Cavell & Jeff Noakes
Categories: History

In Acts of Occupation, historians Cavell and Noakes deliver the engrossing story of Canada’s early days of Arctic policy. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped archival sources, they show how one ...

Madness, Betrayal and the Lash

By (author) Stephen Bown
Categories: History of the Americas

The tragic story of Captain Vancouver, a great explorer whose triumphs were overshadowed by public humiliation. From 1792 to 1795, George Vancouver sailed the Pacific waters as captain of a major expedition ...

The Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher

From the book: "They were five weeks out of England, driving through a storm on the icy edge of the world, when a sudden blast knocked Gabriel on her side. The helmsman tried frantically to turn the tiny ...

The Noble Savage

By (author) Stelio Cro
Foreword by Aubrey Rosenberg
Categories: Literature: history and criticism

Stelio Cro’s revealing work, arising from his more than half dozen previous books, considers the eighteenth-century Enlightenment in the context of the European experience with, and reaction to, the ...