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MacDonald, Laura M.: Curse of The Narrows : The Halifax Disaster of 1917
Softcover, Walker & Company, New York, NY, 2005 0802714587 / 9780802714589
Very Good+, 0.9 x 9.3 x 6.4 Inches; 350 pages; Slight edge wear, text clean and unmarked. "Assiduous research, beautiful writing, and a great talent for historical reconstruction make Laura MacDonald's Curse of the Narrows the definitive account of the Halifax explosion of December 1917. MacDonald is a master of minutia--chemistry, laws of navigation, the horrors visited on the poor people of Halifax's north end--and she writes with supreme authority and exquisite detail. MacDonald begins her account with geography and she sets the scene by examining the bustling port of Halifax in the First World War. Using the very best recent scholarship, she then reconstructs the accident itself, describing closely the series of small errors that lead the Norwegian freighter Imo to ram into the French munitions vessel Mont Blanc in the narrows of Halifax harbor: "The Mont Blanc, with 2,925 tons of explosives, packed in hermetically sealed holds inside a super-heated hull was now the most powerful bomb the war and the world had yet produced." When it exploded, thousands of innocent people were killed in an instant. If MacDonald had limited her investigation into the causes of the accident her book would still be worth buying. She offers much more: examinations of the inquiries and court cases, the official response to the devastation, and above all the ways in which families were challenged by the appalling effects of the explosion. By tracing the struggles of these families, the Duggans, the Frasers, and the Galloways among others, MacDonald brings the scope of the tragedy home to the reader in a way that few would have believed possible. Be warned. Parts of this book are book have an impact on the reader's soul no less than the concussion of the explosion itself. This is a magnificent accomplishment. "
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McPherson, Anne: Ways of the Wilderness : A Personal Journey Through Religion and Literature
Softcover, Novalis Press, Ottawa, Canada, 2003 2895074054 / 9782895074052
Very Good, 0.55 x 9.04 x 6.18 Inches; 200 pages; Slight edge wear, gift inscription inside front cover. Text clean and unmarked. "The theme of wilderness is found in literature throughout the ages. Anne McPherson guides readers through narratives from the Bible and modern fiction from Canada, France, the United States and the United Kingdom, casting a new light on the meaning of wandering through the wilderness, of being a scapegoat thrown out into the wilderness, or even finding 'the holy community of the desert'."
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Newman, Peter C.: Company of Adventurers : Volume One (1): The Story of the Hudson's Bay Company
Softcover, Penguin Books, New York, NY, 1987 014010139X / 9780140101393
Very Good-, 1.18 x 7.72 x 5.12 Inches; 608 pages; Some edge wear, a few light spots at top of page ends. Text clean and unmarked. "There has never been a business enterprise like it: at its height, the Hudson's Bay Company's territory covered one-twelfth of the earth's surface and was ten times the size of the Holy Roman Empire. Its domain stretched from London across Canada, down to San Francisco and across the Pacific to Hawaii. Its founders tamed a wilderness, and, in building the world's largest private commercial empire, they shaped the destiny of a continent."
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San Souci, Robert D.; Pinkney, Brian: Cut from the Same Cloth : American Women of Myth, Legend, and Tall Tale
Hardcover, Philomel Books, New York, NY, 1993 0399219870 / 9780399219870
Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket, 0.72 x 10.3 x 8.35 Inches; 140 pages; Large hardcover, former owner's stamp on first page. Text clean and unmarked. Jacket has some edge wear at top and bottom of spineas well as a small tear at bottom of spine and near front bottom corner. "These women come from the Native American, African American, Mexican American, and Canadian traditions. Although they differ in many ways from their male counterparts, there are still tricksters, sweet talkers, and brave and strong protagonists like those found in hero stories. There has been some retelling, some modifications of dialects, some reshaping of open endings, but the plots have not been tampered with. Each story is illustrated with an engraving of some sort, with black background and white lines that give the pictures an antique quality like a woodcut or copper engraving. Notes on the stories and an extensive list of further reading are appended."
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Schneider, Paul: The Enduring Shore : A History of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket
Softcover, Henry Holt and Company, New York, NY, 2001 0805067345 / 9780805067347
Very Good+, 1.1 x 9 x 6.1 Inches; 384 pages; Large softcover with slight edge wear, front lower corner is creased. Text unmarked. A few tiny spots on two pages. "Billed as the first history of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket and Elizabeth Islands in 50 years, this animated if loosely organized book blends stories of the region's rich heritage with tales of the author's adventures kayaking the local current-riven waters. A Vineyard resident himself, Schneider begins by describing the culture of the area's Nauset and Wampanoag Indians, noting that they had 125 years of contact with adventurous Europeans before the Mayflower's Pilgrims clambered ashore in Provincetown Harbor in 1620. Schneider identifies the geological machinations of the last ice age, which engulfed the northern half of the continent and sculpted the cape, islands and shoals he clearly loves. He retells the tragedy of the whaleship Essex as he juggles his way through New England's whaling heyday. More contemporary topics--such as the current milieus of the various communities and the ecological ravages of DDT in the 1960s--also emerge and recede in an energetic whirl of information. "
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Simon, Alvah: North to the Night : A Spiritual Odyssey in the Arctic
Softcover, Broadway Books, New York, NY, 1999 076790446X / 9780767904469
Very Good+, 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.1 Inches; 328 pages; Very slight edge wear, text clean and unmarked. Many b&w photos. "Following his "Arctic dreams" that began with a photograph of the haggard crew of the ill-fated ship Endurance, Alvah Simon and his wife, Diana, set sail to winter in the high north. "We call them explorers, but I knew that look in their eyes," Simon writes of the early Arctic adventurers. "They were seekers, and that is a different thing." With self-discovery as a deeper agenda, the couple ventures into Tay Bay of remote Bylot Island; it is their ultima Thule--"the Last Unknown." Their small boat is willingly frozen in the ice. When Diana is airlifted out of the Arctic to tend to an emergency back home, Simon is unexpectedly left in solitude. His journey turns inward as he confronts the "uncomfortable awakening of my spiritual self." In the waning daylight, then total darkness, Simon's days are punctuated by depression and mania, a crackled voice over the radio, Inuit visitors, and hard-earned lessons as he is driven by the forces of the Arctic winter and by "the total loss of the sun." "
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Ulrich, Tom J.: Birds of the Northern Rockies
Softcover, Mountain Press Publishing Company, Missoula, MT, 1988 0878421696 / 9780878421695
Very Good, 0.35 x 8.27 x 5.32 Inches; 159 pages; Minor edge wear. Includes color photos and detailed accounts of 175 bird species found from the southern Canadian Rockies to the Tetons of Wyoming.
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Vreeland, Susan: The Forest Lover
Softcover, Viking, New York, NY, 2004 0965921344 / 9780965921343
Very Good-, 1.5 x 7.1 x 4.4 Inches; 464 pages; Tall softcover with minor edge wear, small dent at top of spine affecting a few pages. Two small red marks on spine. "In her third novel, 'The Forest Lover', Vreeland's subject is the courageous Canadian painter Emily Carr, who traveled through native villages and wilderness of British Columbia in the early 1900s, often alone, on a quest to paint totem poles and other artifacts before the indigenous traditions died out and the poles were destroyed or sold. Vreeland's Carr is deeply respectful of the people she meets, and is rewarded with their trust and their stories."
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