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Finding Franklin: the untold story of a 165-year search
By Russell A Potter. 2016
In 2014 media around the world buzzed with news that an archaeological team from Parks Canada had located and identified…
the wreck of the HMS Erebus, the flagship of Sir John Franklin's lost expedition to find the Northwest Passage. Outlines the larger story and the cast of detectives from every walk of life that led to the discovery, solving of one of the Arctic's greatest mysteries. Potter details his decades of work alongside key figures in the era of modern searches for the expedition and elucidates how shared research and ideas have led to a fuller understanding of the Franklin crew's final months. Recounts the more than fifty modern searches for traces of his ships and crew, and the dedicated, often obsessive, men and women who embarked on them. Potter discusses the crucial role that Inuit oral accounts, often cited but rarely understood, played in all of these searches, and continues to play to this day, and offers historical and cultural context to the contemporary debates over the significance of Franklin's achievement. 2016.Fire on the mountain: the true story of the South Canyon fire
By John N Maclean. 1999
An account of the 1994 forest fire on Colorado's Storm King Mountain, which claimed the lives of fourteen elite firefighters,…
including four women. Reconstructs the human errors that compounded the natural disaster, mistakes made during the investigations that followed, and lessons to be learned. Includes strong language. 1999.Fastnet, force 10: the deadliest storm in the history of modern sailing
By John Rousmaniere. 2000
303 yachts began the 1979 Fastnet Race but at the end of the race, fifteen people had died, twenty-four crews…
had abandoned ship, 136 people had been rescued and only 85 boats finished. 2000.Fair wind and plenty of it: a modern-day tall ship adventure
By Rigel Crockett. 2004
On November 25, 1997, the barque Picton Castle, a three-masted, square-rigged tall ship, headed out from Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, on…
a voyage around the world. Captain Dan Moreland, driven by a desire to make his mark in the world of traditional sailing, rallied forces to convert a 69-year-old North Sea trawler into a seaworthy tall ship, and then assembled the crew to sail it. The author took part in the voyage and tells a tale of shipboard camaraderie, gut-wrenching struggles, and the near mutinies that marked the year-and-a-half journey. 2004.Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of discovering the source of the…
White Nile. Using new research, Tim Jeal tells the story of these great expeditions, while also examining the tragic consequences the Nile search has had on Uganda and Sudan to this day. 2011.Death and deliverance: the haunting true story of the Hercules crash at the North Pole
By Robert Mason Lee. 1992
Desperate hours: the epic rescue of the Andrea Doria
By Richard Goldstein. 2001
A dramatic moment-by-moment account of the crash that caused the sinking of the "Andrea Doria" and the remarkable rescue of…
all but 46 of the ship's 1662 passengers and crew, widely known as the greatest sea rescue of all time. 2001.Dangerous waters: one man's search for adventure
By David Philpott. 1985
The author, head of a billion-dollar corporation, left his old life and set out alone in a 30-foot sailboat. He…
travelled from Halifax to Bermuda and into the open Atlantic where his boat was wrecked in a storm. 1985.Black wave: a family's adventure at sea and the disaster that saved them
By Jean Silverwood, John Silverwood, Malcolm McConnell. 2008
When John and Jean Silverwood, both experienced sailors, decided to give their four children a taste of life on the…
high seas, they hoped the trip would offer important learning experiences. But aboard their fifty-five-foot catamaran, the Silverwood family struggled with family and marriage dynamics in compressed quarters alongside the terrifying forces of nature. Then, just when it seemed that they had mastered every challenge, their world was shattered in a split second of sheer horror. 2008.Canada's first nations: a history of founding peoples
By Olive Patricia Dickason. 1992
Dickason traces the history of Canada's first nations, from the earliest habitation of North America through European settlement and to…
the present. She discusses current issues and controversies, including Meech Lake, the Oka crisis, and the debate over self-government. 1992.Castaway survivor's guide
By Rory Storm. 2000
Planning on being a castaway somewhere? Then this guide is for you. Learn how to live off the land, find…
food and shelter, and battle weather, poisonous plants and animals, and any other dangers you might encounter. Includes castaway stories, quizzes and brainteasers, and the recipe for cooked snake. Grades 3-6 and older readers. 2000.Bury my heart at Wounded Knee: an Indian history of the American West
By Dee Alexander Brown. 1970
The author sets out to tell of the conquest of the American West as the victims experienced it, using their…
own words whenever possible; of the greedy invaders, murdering and destroying Indians who had set out to live in peace with their white neighbours. 1970.At large: the fugitive odyssey of Murray Hill and his elephants
By Gary S Ross. 1992
When Murray Hill retired from the circus, he sold his elephants to Dick Drake, but "repossessed" them when he discovered…
that Drake was abusing the animals. Over the next 5 years, Murray put all his energy and ingenuity into hiding the elephants from Drake and the FBI. Strong language.At the edge: daring acts in desperate times
By Larry Verstraete. 2009
A young man in Nunavut fights off a polar bear to save his friend, a Canadian peacekeeper in the Congo…
risks his own life to save those of stranded tourists, and ordinary people show extraordinary character during the Halifax Explosion, the Holocaust, Hurricane Katrina, the Tiananmen Square protests, and September 11, 2001. Over twenty true-life stories about life-threatening situations and the wrenching choices made by the people facing them. Winner of the 2010 Silver Birch Award for Non-fiction. Grades 5-8. Some descriptions of violence. 2009.Around the world in 20 days: the story of our history-making balloon flight
By Brian Jones, Bertrand Piccard. 1999
An account of the first nonstop balloon flight to circle the globe. The authors describe their liftoff in Switzerland in…
March 1999, their record-setting journey, and their landing in the Egyptian desert. Discussion includes equipment used and crises encountered, with revelations of the personal quirks of the two adventurers. 1999.An embarrassment of mangoes: a Caribbean interlude
By Ann Vanderhoof. 2005
Ann and Steve were driven professionals desperate for a break, so they quit their jobs and set sail for the…
Caribbean on a two-year voyage of culinary and cultural discovery. They dropped anchor in 16 countries, where they explored secluded beaches, shopped lively local markets, hiked, fished, and adapted to life on "island time". Includes recipes of the dishes they encountered, such as cracked conch, curried lobster and papaya salsa. 2005.Alone against the north
By Adam Shoalts. 2015
The Hudson Bay Lowlands, a trackless expanse of muskeg and lonely rivers, caribou and wolf, is an Amazon of the…
north, parts of which to this day remain unexplored. Cutting through this forbidding landscape is a river no explorer, trapper, or canoeist had left any record of paddling. It was this river that Adam Shoalts was obsessively determined to explore. It took him several attempts, and years of research. But finally, alone, he found the headwaters of the mysterious river. He believed he had discovered what he had set out to find. But the adventure had just begun. Bestseller. Winner of the 2016 Young Authors Award. 2015.Against the flow: the inspiring story of a teacher turned record-making yachtswoman
By Dee Caffari, Elaine Bunting. 2007
More people have walked on the moon than have successfully completed a westabout circumnavigation. In 2006, Caffari became the first…
woman to sail solo around the world against the prevailing winds and currents, braving physical hardship in terrible conditions, overcoming solitude, sleep deprivation, the worry of crucial equipment failing, 34 days of gales, 12 metre waves, cyclones and a lightning strike. c2007.3 jours au Népal
By JeanDavid Blanc. 2012
Voulant découvrir l'Himalaya seul en paramoteur, J.-D. Blanc s'écrase à 3.000 mètres d'altitude en plein hiver et sans ravitaillement. Il…
fait ici le récit de son périple minute par minute dans une nature grandiose mais hostile, raconte ses moments de désespoir, et donne une leçon de survie.100 days in the jungle
By Shawn Ohler, Vicki Hall. 2000
On September 11, 1999, eight oil workers from Canada and the U.S. were taken hostage by 15 armed guerrillas in…
Ecuador. They walked in the jungle for 100 days, facing possible death at any moment, but all miraculously survived. Some strong language. 2000.