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By Smoke Blanchard. 1985
A professional mountain guide who began his climbing career as a teenager in the depression years relates his many exciting…
adventures in the mountains of California, Alaska, the Yukon, and Nepal. Blanchard offers advice on equipment and technique and discusses the people he has met. 1985.By Charles Wilkins. 2004
In the spring of 2002, writer Charles Wilkins walked east from his home in Thunder Bay, Ontario to New York…
City. Wilkins met poets, hillbillies, even a baronial black African recently released from a torture prison, and visited wilderness mansions, mountain shacks, a Toronto cemetery, and the Baseball Hall of Fame. Throughout, he muses on walking - its history, its culture, its decline, and perhaps most of all its ability to replenish the senses and reconstitute a world shrunken by cyberspace and jet travel. 2004.By Peter Moore. 2003
Stirred by his approaching fortieth birthday, the author decides to pursue a dream, to explore Italy from the seat of…
a 1961 Vespa. Once the perfect motor scooter is found, and finally made as road worthy as possible, he is off, travelling the back roads from Milan to Rome. 2003.By R. D Lawrence. 1982
By P. J Kavanagh. 1994
A literary tour of Ireland with a focus on its history and legends. Reveals the unique language and culture that…
evolved on the uninvaded island, so alien to Romanized Europe. Along the way from the north down to Dublin, the author depicts the sound and character of a singular people. 1995, c1994.By Jennifer Gould. 1997
Gould lived and worked in Russia from 1992 to 1994, travelling extensively through the former Soviet Union and recording her…
observations. Chronicling Russia as it re-creates itself, she interviewed new millionaires, soldiers in Chechnya, people just struggling to get by, and even Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of Russia's far right. 1997.By Robert Ward. 2002
In Medieval and Renaissance Europe, humble journeyman painters would depict the Virgin Mary on city walls and cobblestones. The most…
beloved figure in Catholic theology has little to say in the Bible itself. It is through a look into history that we may understand how she is viewed today and how that view was formed. 2002.By Joseph Facal. 2011
A l'occasion d'une année sabbatique où il a enseigné à l'université Carolo III de Madrid, Joseph Facal s'est installé avec…
toute sa famille en Espagne. L'auteur y note des réflexions très libres, inspirées par l'actualité et par sa découverte de la vie espagnole. Il s'intéresse aussi bien à la tauromachie qu'au nationalisme catalan, aussi bien au renouveau urbain de Barcelone et de Bilbao qu'aux conséquences de la crise financière sur la vie des Espagnols. Agréable à lire, comme un journal de voyage, cet ouvrage donne aussi sur la réflexion de la société québécoise à partir d'un point de vue extérieur. 2011.By M. F. K Fisher. 1983
The day-to-day adventures of the author in Aix-en-Provence and Marseilles. This is a study of customs and manners, and could…
serve as a guide on how and how not to behave when living abroad. 1983.By Dave Bidini. 2000
Author, musician, and hockey fan Bidini decided to seek out Canada's export sport in the far corners of the world.…
His quest led him to a rink on the eighth floor of a Hong Kong shopping mall, the gritty city of Harbin in northern China, to Dubai and even Transylvania. He discovers that hockey is a powerful connector around the world, and glories in its exhilaration and moments of grace. Some strong language. 2000.By Jan Morris. 2001
Jan Morris has crafted a meditation on a most unusual city. James (as she was then) first visited Trieste as…
a soldier at the end of World War II. Since then, the city has come to represent her own life, with all its hopes, disillusionments, loves and memories. 2001.By Dominique Fernandez. 2012
Récit de trois semaines de traversée de la Russie à bord du Transsibérien. Au fil du voyage, l'auteur poursuit sa…
méditation sur les paysages et les lieux, sur l'art et la littérature russes, avec en toile de fond le passé soviétique.By Rosalind Massow. 1985
By Daisy Baker, Pamela Mara. 1974
By George Galt. 1982
Galt recounts his personal experiences traveling through the Aegean islands. In addition to a host of incredible characters, Galt has…
to contend with the ghost of his own ancestor, John Galt, who explored the same terrain early in the 19th century. c1982.By Kathrene Pinkerton. 1940
By Michele Landsberg. 1989
Toronto writer Michele Landsberg moved to New York City when her husband, Stephen Lewis, became Canada's ambassador to the United…
Nations. Here she provides a portrait of New York, from secluded public gardens and bustling family neighbourhoods to political corruption, racism and poverty. 1990, c1989.By Charles Wohlforth. 2004
Journalist offers a nuanced account of global warming from the perspectives of scientists and native Alaskan In~upiaq people. Examines the…
impact of climate change on the In~upiaq, whose traditional livelihood is threatened by milder winters and thinning sea ice. Provides the contrasting viewpoints of scientists studying Arctic environmental changes. 2004.By Peter Jenkins, Barbara Jenkins. 1981
A description of the authors' trip from New Orleans to Oregon. They tell of their experiences and the people they…
met during their 2,000 mile walk, beginning in 1976 and ending in 1979. Sequel to "Walk across America." 1981.By Arthur Gelb, A. M Rosenthal. 1984