Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. Canada - General    5. Literary    6. History / Canada   

Subjects:  1. 1947-    2. British Columbia    3. Canada - Western Provinces    4. Description and travel    5. Kayaking    6. Pacific Coast    7. Pacific Coast (B.C.)    8. Scott, Andrew,    9. Travel    10. Travel - Foreign    11. Pacific Coast (B.C.) - Biography    12. Pacific Coast (B.C.) - Description and travel    13. Travel - British Columbia - Pacific Coast    14. Travel / Canada / Western Provinces (AB, BC)   

Subjects:  1. 1871-1945    2. Apartment houses    3. Artists, Architects, Photographers    4. Biography    5. Biography / Autobiography    6. British Columbia    7. Canada    8. Canadian    9. Carr, Emily,    10. English Canadian Novel And Short Story    11. Fiction    12. General    13. Old English sheepdog    14. Painters    15. Personal Memoirs    16. Short Stories (single author)    17. Victoria    18. Fiction / Literary   

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great book
Thisbook issurprising gem of exploration and biography. Johnson makes excellent use of a vast colection of maps, something sorely lacking in many similar books. His grasp of history and the ocean make this a particularly good and informative read.

An excellent biography of Henry Hudson
Not much is known about Henry Hudson, and records are few, but Johnson manages to piece together all of the main elements into one easily-readable book. Johnson also brings his own experience as a sailor to the book, giving it a new facet for readers. Based mostly on Hudson's own journals, this is a concise picture of Hudson's known voyages, with a lot of interesting and informative asides. I recommend this book ... Read more

Subjects:  1. America    2. Biography    3. Explorers    4. Great Britain    5. History: World    6. Hudson, Henry,    7. d. 1611    8. American history    9. Canada    10. Geographical discovery & exploration    11. Hudson, Henry    12. Maritime history   

Subjects:  1. Biography / Autobiography    2. Canada - History    3. Elgin (County)    4. Elgin (Ont. : County)    5. General    6. Ontario    7. Scots    8. Social life and customs   

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Best Of The West!
The Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush, a time at the turn of the century, when the gold camps were booming and the dust flowed like wine.Leaving behind law and many of the constraints of the Post-Victorian era, men and women went north to find adventure and wealth.Most found death among the cold frozen mountains and rivers but a few survived to find money, power and, sometimes, even love.
Not Real Interesting
I was disappointed in this book, it seemed more like a history of the men of the Yukon and Gold Rush . There were some stories about some of these women in there, but they were not very interesting to me, just sort of dry and lacking the quality that you could see and picture the people-which is a quality I look for in books of a historical nature. If you like just a history of cut and dry facts about the Gold Rush and the men etc., this might be ok, but overall, the book failed to be interesting to me.

Interesting side to the "gold miners"
Well, the men mined the gold, and the women mined the miners. All had unhealthy jobs but it would appear that more womem made money than the men from this book.It is also interesting that many of the women ended their trade by marrying the miners. So while to some they were "soiled doves" to the miners they were princesses.
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Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography/Autobiography    3. Canada - General    4. Historical - General    5. History - U.S.    6. United States - 19th Century    7. United States - 19th Century/Old West    8. United States - State & Local - General    9. Women   

Subjects:  1. Adventurers & Explorers    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. Canada - General    5. History - General History    6. Women   

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This book cuts to the heart of what life is all about
Ralph Edwards of lonesome lake is a book about carving out a life for onesfamily in a remote wilderness. This book is such a contrast to our technical world with cell phones, internet, e mail"Big Box shopping" malls. Our lives are so full but really so empty. I felt an extreme feeling of sadness after having read this book. Ralph Edwards and his wife are now dead after having lived a hard but full life. We all struggle through life with different goals and yet we all have to face death. I felt the sadness of Ralph Edwards when he realised that he was too old to be independant and look after himself.This book has to make us all stop and concider what we are doing and what is the purpose of life. What could possibly be more important than these questions? ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Adventurers & Explorers    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. British Columbia    6. Canada - General    7. Edwards, Ralph A    8. Entertainment & Performing Arts - General    9. Frontier and pioneer life    10. Lonesome Lake region    11. Pioneers    12. Biography: general    13. Canada   

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Amazing, as always
No matter how many books he writes, Farley Mowat continues to amaze his fans. His non-fiction is never dry or uninspiring, though he's a talented fiction writer as well, and this faithful reader of his work is certainly not disappointed. Thank you again, Mr. Mowat for your great writing. It is truly appreciated!
A priceless look into a word that is probably gone forever.
A book I could not put down. It is a well written insight into a world that none of us will ever experience. Mr. Mowat is a great story teller and anational treasure. Anyone who is interested in the least about people and lands of the north must read this book.

Another outstanding book by Farley Mowat
Farley Mowat has been one of my favorite authors since I was in 6th grade in the early 1960s. I ordered a copy of "Two Against the North" from the Arrow Book Club and read it over and over. The story of two boys from different cultures trying to survive winter in the barrens was riveting to me, a gal firmly stuck in the suburbs. Mowat's descriptions of glacial landforms in that book remained with me and were recalled with every earth science and geology lesson I ever took. (The book can be found in some libraries under the title "Lost in the Barrens"--a great read for a middle schooler curious about the world outside familiar places.) Part of what I loved about No Man's River was that the journeys described were clearly the basis for many aspects of "Lost in the Barrens"--kind of like an echo of an old favorite. Mowat is the consummate story teller--reading his books makes you want to sit around a campfire with him for several hours hearing spin his yarns. One of my favorite quotes comes from him--"Never let the facts get in the way of a good story." No Man's River has jaw-dropping adventure as well as thought provoking commentary on the clash of vastly different cultures. Enjoy! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography/Autobiography    3. Canada - Post-Confederation (1867-)    4. Description and travel    5. History - General History    6. Inuit    7. Manitoba    8. Mowat, Farley    9. Native American    10. Personal Memoirs    11. Travel   

Subjects:  1. Biography / Autobiography    2. British Columbia    3. Canada - Post-Confederation (1867-)    4. Frontier and pioneer life    5. History    6. History: World    7. Naturalists, Gardeners, Environmentalists    8. Outdoor life    9. Personal Memoirs    10. Pioneers    11. Wildlife   

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. British Columbia    3. History    4. Social Science    5. Sociology    6. United States - General    7. Women    8. Women adventurers    9. Women pioneers    10. Women's Studies - General    11. Women's Studies - History    12. History / Canada   

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If you want the truth,details and about everthing else about the Black Donnellys,this is the book.

The Only Authentic Account
This is the only authentic account of this tragedy, and there is another sequel by this author that is just as informing.

Bestwriting on the Donnellys
This the best and most interesting of the Donnellys era. One of those books you hate to set down to finish later. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biddulph    2. Biddulph (Ont.)    3. Biography    4. Canada - General    5. Canada - History - 1760-1899    6. Criminals    7. Donnelly family    8. General    9. History    10. History: World    11. Ontario    12. True Crime / Espionage    13. American history: c 1500 to c 1800    14. Canada    15. Criminals - Ontario - Lucan    16. History / Canada    17. Murder - Ontario - Lucan   

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Disappointing
The author claims that having left behind her urban comforts to live in rural Saskatchewan eventually put her closely in touch with nature. Unfortunately, I was deeply disappointed with her version of'in touch with nature'. I expected to read the words of someone who respects animals and wilderness. Instead I read about her views on mice as pests, how she and her husband made their living fattening cows before the slaughter, and her twisted comments about hunters having a greater capacity for pain and suffering than the animals they cruelly kill. Exploiting animals has clearly become an inherent part of her livelihood on the farm. She thinks nothing of attending rodeos where animals are wantonly abused, and she has no trouble inflicting pain on cows through branding without anesthetics. She describes environmentalists as mostly "urban" people who are only capable of fighting the corporate world and governments by attempting to put Nature in their own terms. (Huh?) She fails to realize that if us crazy "urban" environmentalist all moved out into the wilderness, there would be no wilderness left! (I for one am proud to live in the city, leaving wild areas free for the animals to roam.) The author also totally fails to acknowledge that an animal-based diet (which she and her husband directly rely on for their livelihood) is behind much of the mass-destruction of wilderness observed in the last century. I suppose I wouldn't have been so shocked reading this book had it not been advertised as "an apprenticeship in nature". I'd sooner see it called "a treatise in exploiting nature".

An Encounter With Nature and With Yourself
Sharon Butala has written a deeply personal book with universal application.She tells of her journey from a fulfilling but hectic urban life to one of isolation and introspection.She joins her new husband on a cattle ranch in southwest Saskatchewan and leaves behind her universityteaching, her graduate studies, her support network of feminist friends,and her teenaged son.In her long, lonely hours of interaction with"Nature," she encounters the mysteries and messages of thenatural world and experiences the gradual healing of her own wounds.As Iread Butala's book I found myself stopping to write about my own pains, myown healing, and my own mysterious encounters with Nature.It was ajourney we took together, and I am stronger for the experience. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1940-    2. 20th century    3. Authors, Canadian    4. Biography    5. Biography / Autobiography    6. Butala, Sharon,    7. Homes and haunts    8. Intellectual life    9. Natural history    10. Naturalists & Gardeners    11. Naturalists, Gardeners, Environmentalists    12. Nature/Ecology    13. Saskatchewan    14. Women    15. Women naturalists    16. Butala, Sharon   

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Eye Opener!
I feel so foolish after reading this book.I thought that all it would take to end the barbaric and cruel seal "hunts" is join along with millions of others who are against it, let it be known in a letter or an email and wait to see what happens.I guess I could never fathom a good people, a good government that would allow animal cruelty and to allow it as a proud tradition, a heritage, a right.Yet the world has not seen even a inkling of what really happens come March every year.Cameras aren't allowed.Videos aren't allowed to record the cruelty.If by chance cruelty is recorded, it is a fake, a lie, made up.
Everyone who cares about earth should read this book
Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society are true heroes, and this book will inspire you to help end the barbaric Canadian seal hunt once and for all. This book is a great story - and very hard to put down.

A Great Man, A Great Story
I am 3/4 done with this book but couldn't wait to post a review on Amazon.This is a great story about a great man who has courage, vision, compassion, a sense of justice and humor, to boot!It is hard for me to put this book down.Sometimes I can't wait to see what will happen next and other times, I am cracking up from their antics! (ie. pie filling in their cannons...hysterical!)They are so funny while on such a serious mission....the best way to be, I guess. There is everything in it....politics, travel, adventure, culture, sabotage, suspense, and silliness.The story is interesting on many levels.I learned alot about the history of sealing, the beauty and danger of the ice floes, Newfoundland, the tensions between the English and French of eastern Canada, the corruption of the Canadian government and what it is like to be the only ship among 80 sealing ships out there in the bitter cold trying to stop the slaughter of these innocent beings.
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Subjects:  1. Animal Rights    2. Biography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Canada    5. Conservationists    6. Environmental Conservation & Protection - General    7. General    8. Harp seal    9. Mammals    10. Nature    11. Nature/Ecology    12. North Atlantic Ocean    13. Personal Memoirs    14. Sealing    15. Nature / Animal Rights   

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Biography    3. Blacks    4. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction    5. Children: Grades 4-6    6. Civil rights    7. Civil rights workers    8. Dresden    9. History    10. History - Canada - General    11. Juvenile Nonfiction    12. Ontario    13. Race discrimination    14. Social Issues - Prejudice & Racism    15. Juvenile Nonfiction / Social Situations / Prejudice & Racism   

Subjects:  1. History: World    2. Canada - General    3. Powell River    4. History - General History    5. History    6. Canada - Post-Confederation (1867-)    7. 20th century    8. 1-55369-853-3,1553698533,02-0666,020666,Rusty Nails and Ration Books 1929-1945,Barbara Ann Lambert,Great Depression,World War II,Camps: Relief,Forestry and C.O.,chinese,Women: WW II,Riding the rods,first nations,conscientious objectors,pioneers,unemployed    9. American history: First World War    10. USA    11. Anecdotes    12. Interviews    13. World War, 1939-1945    14. 1929    15. Depressions    16. Biography    17. Powell River (B.C.)    18. British Columbia    19. Canada   

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Anne Revisted
When the thousands of Lucy Maud Montgomery fans make their pilgrimage to Prince Edward Island every year they expect to find everything in its place.Nancy Rootland, a writer from sunny California, has some insights to share about this in her illustrated book entitled Anne's World, Maud's World: The Sacred Sites of L.M. Montgomery (Nimbus).Her text slides easily from Montgomery's childhood, memorable moments and quotes from Anne of Green Gables to Rootland's own feelings as she enters these 'sacred sites' and experiences the places she has only ever read about but of which she feels so much a part.Add to this a collection of high quality photographs and you have a book that is a delight to the eye and a joy to read.Rootland delights in placing herself in scenes from both Maud and Anne's lives.Looking at herself in the china cabinet she sees the reflection of Katie Maurice.She visits the beach and watches Nate, Maud, and Amanda talking about their teenage hopes and dreams as the sun sets.She stands on the platform of Kensington Station with Maud and her grandfather waiting for the train that will take them to Prince Albert.Rootland surmises that in 1880 they did not know the future anymore than she does for herself a century later, except that she knows she will return to the sacred sites someday.Rootland experiences deja vu.Everything is where it should be, right down to Marilla's amethyst brooch on her night stand, "where it belongs", where she, and thousands like her, expect it to be, every day, every year, now and forever.

Homage to home,a tribute to the 'sacred sites' of Lucy Maud
"The Sacred Sites of L.M. Montgomery" seems a pretty silly subtitle for a book unless you're a total fan of Lucy Maud.I am not one.However, to my surprise, I found this small book, titled Anne's World, Maud's World, to be readable, enjoyable - even at times - thought-provoking. How Nancy Rootland came to write it is a remarkable story in itself."In January of 1981," she relates, "I was browing in a bookstore in Southern California when the title Anne of Green Gables caught my eye...I slid the book off the shelf and started leafing through the pages - and that was it.I could barely put it down long enough to get over to the sales desk, and while I was driving home my eyes kept wandering over to the package on the seat next to me."She finished the story in one sitting, amazed at how Anne's experiences paralleled her own.She found she shared the author's and Anne's perception of nature.That summer she read all 20 of L.M. Montgomery's novels.For 11 years, Nancy Rootland learned more about her favourite author while waiting for the time when she'd be free to make the long journey to Prince Edward Island.This book is the record of what she found there and how she reacted to the "sacred sites."She was not disappointed .A fine writer herself, Rootland knows how to convey atmosphere, feelings, the sense of past and present meeting - all that's so difficult to articulate without sounding silly.She doesn't sound silly.Here's an example."Such is the beauty and spiritual grandeur of this enchanted isle and the remarkable sons and daughters of its history, that access to the sacred, which thrives in sites both natural and constructed, is always possible.So convinced am I of this power of place that I invite you, reading these words, to come here and find out for yourself.All you need to take with you on your journey is an open heart and a bit of imagination."No need to spell out how Anne's World, Maud's World, conveys the spirit of home.Rather I'll mention what a beautiful little (110 page) book this is.Fine, coloured photographs of the " sacred sites" alternate with Rootland's commentary, which, in turn, is studded with quotations from Montgomery.First we see Anne's World, then Maud's.Two simplified maps at the end show the relevant places of PEI and in the Cavendish area.For an Anne-lover or Montgomery-lover, this book would make a perfect present.But anyone who's wondered about the mystery of how a character can some alive enough to fill an area with his or her presence will also appreciate Anne's World, Maud's World.

Author brings us closer to 'Anne'
Nancy Rootland's book explores environment of Montgomery and Anne.Through the writing of LM Montgomery, the world has an opportunity to look in on a beautiful rural community. A sense of home and of belonging are strong themes in the Anne books and Nancy Rootland uses this message to show us some of the places that were so dear to the author of Anne of Green Gables and places that have become sacred to readers.In Anne's World, Maud's World: The Sacred Sites of L.M Montgomery, Nancy Rootland has transported us to that place where Anne and her people live.Rootland expects to see Anne and Marilla or Matthew emerge from the fields or orchard at any time, and so do we.The photographs of the places that are so pivotal to the world of Anne and of Maud herself, will captivate the reader and invigorate the imagination of those who have read and re-read the books.The author invites the reader to experience this incredible place and uses her prose to evoke the writing style of Maud Montgomery, the pictures lead us on a journery of discovery for Anne and for our own sense of peace and tranquility.Rootland's background in teaching and as a teacher of child psychology provides some of the insights for her portrayal of the emotional story of the orphaned Anne and the lonely Maud.There is real feeling and caring for the child that Anne charaterizes and that Maud really was.Beautiful photos, and evocative text permit the reader to join Anne and Maud on the journey home. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. (Lucy Maud),    2. 1874-1942    3. 20th century    4. Authors, Canadian    5. Biography    6. Biography & Autobiography    7. Biography/Autobiography    8. General    9. Guidebooks    10. Homes and haunts    11. Literary landmarks    12. Literature - Classics / Criticism    13. Montgomery, L. M    14. Montgomery, L. M.    15. Prince Edward Island    16. Women    17. American English    18. Modern fiction    19. Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -    20. Shirley, Anne (Fictitious character)   

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Really two stories in one book.
Krajick has written one of many books detailing the hunt for diamonds in the Canadian North.Unlike several of the other writers, Krajick devoted the first part of this book to the land itself.In a fascinating historical journey readers get to follow early explorers and native inhabitants across the most unforgiving wilderness on earth, with stops in the American Southwest, Africa, and South America thrown in to heighten the story.
Fascinating
This book illuminates the possibilities of the frozen north unlike anything else I've read.
What's required to find a multi-billion dollar mine
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Subjects:  1. Arctic regions    2. Diamonds    3. Discovery and exploration    4. Expeditions & Discoveries    5. Gras, Lac de, Region    6. History - General History    7. Metallurgy    8. Mining    9. North American    10. Northwest Territories    11. Polar Regions    12. Technology    13. Travel    14. Travel / Adventure    15. Biography & Autobiography    16. Historical    17. Explorers    18. History    19. North America    20. Canada    21. Gems   

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Interesting Reading
If you've seen the movie, or know of the case, this book provides some interesting information.It is relatively well-written, contains pictures, and is easy to read.I recommend it. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1920-    2. Biography    3. Canada    4. Case studies    5. Dick, Evelyn MacLean,    6. Hamilton    7. Legal History    8. Murder    9. Murder - General    10. Murderers    11. Ontario    12. Rich & Famous    13. Trials (Murder)    14. Trials, litigation, etc    15. True Crime    16. True Crime / Espionage    17. True Crime / Murder   

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Gripping adventure story
I read this book several years ago from the library.I rarely buy a book but this one I have.Great adventure story about the challenges two young men face living in a cabin for a year in Manitoba.The description of the first six days trying to find the cabin after getting dropped off is a page turner. An eye-opening experience for any Arctic traveler
The opening sequence of their expedition rivals that of any true life-and-death experience, including "Touching The Void." A must-read for any winter-camper who ventures off the beaten path more than a few days away from luxuries like mechanical heat from an automobile. This is one of the most profound stories of northern wilderness experience that I have ever read. Their story is similar to going to the moon on an Apollo mission, with no backup and no radio contact, and making it on their own. Truly the best story ever told of a modern Arctic expedition with a happy ending. This is a book that I read and immediately gave to a friend to read, and it has passed around to no less than 12 people as a "must read" already, and is still in motion.

Simple, refreshing and sincere
Although I found the book simple and intellectually unchallenging, its sincerity, freshness and admiration for the wilderness and being a part of it were emotionally stirring.It reminded me of the importance of beingable to step away from comitments to work, banks and acquaintances toexperience something larger than all of us.We need this to remind us ofthe essence of being alive and human. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1971-    2. 20th Century Description And Travel    3. Adventure and adventurers    4. Biography    5. Canada    6. Frontier and pioneer life    7. General    8. Manitoba    9. Nature / Field Guide Books    10. Scott, David,    11. Sociology - Rural    12. Scott, David    13. True Stories