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The curse of the narrows: the Halifax explosion, 1917
By Laura MacDonald. 2005
On December 7, 1917, in the heart of the World War I, two ships collided in Halifax harbour. The resulting…
explosion killed over 2,000 people and injured some 6,000 more. Macdonald presents the whole story of how the military, volunteers and ordinary citizens united to organize one of the most complex relief efforts in North American history. Descriptions of violence. 2005.Terror on the seas: true tales of modern-day pirates
By Daniel Sekulich. 2009
Award-winning journalist investigates high-seas piracy, incidents of which occur on a near-daily basis worldwide and can involve detention, robbery, and…
violence. Interviews professional mariners, victims, and even perpetrators themselves to uncover the inner workings of criminal enterprises and gauge international economic and security threats in the early twenty-first century. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. 2009.Starting out in the afternoon: a mid-life journey into wild land
By Jill Frayne. 2002
After Jill Frayne's long-term relationship with her lover ended and her daughter left home, she packed up her life and…
headed for the Yukon. Sleeping in her car or pitching a tent by the road, she became a solitary traveller and lived close to the natural world. What started out as a three-month trip became a personal journey that lasted several years. 2002.Shorty, an aviation pioneer: the story of Victor John Hatton
By James Glassco Henderson. 2004
Having survived the First World War in the trenches, Shorty Hatton started his aviation career in a near-fatal crash of…
an Avro 504K and ended it with another Avro aircraft, the Arrow. In the intervening years he was a military, bush, and test pilot, he taught fledgling aviators at Camp Borden, he was the first to fly new air mail routes in an open cockpit plane, and he tested newly-built Hawker Hurricanes before they joined the Battle of Britain. Some descriptions of sex. 2004.Eiger dreams: ventures among men and mountains
By Jon Krakauer. 2009
Twelve accounts of mountaineering feats by the author of “Into Thin Air” (DC16741). In the title piece, Krakauer and a…
younger companion are waiting out bad weather conditions before assaulting the north face of the Eiger in Switzerland. Some strong language. 2009, c1990.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.The sea hunters: true life adventures with famous shipwrecks
By Clive Cussler, Craig Dirgo. 2003
A hunter of shipwrecks documents the discovery or survey of twelve major ships in deep waters. Each ship's story begins…
with an account of its final voyage, then describes how the ship was found. Featured are the Confederate submarine Hunley and the Allied troop transport Leopoldville, among others. 2003, c1996.The water in between: a journey at sea
By Kevin Patterson. 1999
Kevin Patterson, fresh off a stint in the army and suffering from a broken heart, decided that he would sail…
from Vancouver to Tahiti and back. Although he knew little about boats or sailing he and a companion set out on an adventure that would take them around the world and force them to contemplate the reasons they set out on their journey.Space stories that really happened (Stories That Really Happened Ser.)
By Andrew Donkin. 1999
In this collection of real-life space adventures, the reader can find out about the first astronaut ever to set out…
into the unknown; what it's like to walk on the surface of the moon; and the terrifying journey of Apollo 13. Grades 2-4.The full Montezuma: around Central America and the Caribbean with the girl next door
By Peter Moore. 2001
Travel writer Peter Moore recently invited the new love of his life, a.k.a. the girl next door, to join him…
on a romantic sojourn through Central America. The trip would take them into an area of the world emerging from decades of civil war, an area racked with poverty, disease and natural disasters. Over the next six months they battled hurricanes, mosquitoes, uncooperative border officials and over-sexed Mexican commuters, and along the way they learnt rather more about each other than they really wanted to. 2001.Vacation adventures on a cargo ship
By Adrian Peetoom. 2008
Author Peetoom and his wife, Johanna, had long been fascinated by cargo ship travel as a way to journey to…
foreign ports. After Adrian retired, the couple embarked on two voyages: from Hamburg through the North Sea, the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal, across the bottom of Asia to ports in South Korea and China, and back; and from Savannah, Georgia, across the South Pacific to Australia and New Zealand. 2008.Five against the sea: a true story of courage and survival
By Ron Arias. 1989
Five Costa Rican fishermen embarked on a routine fishing trip, but a freak storm ravaged their ship and they drifted…
in the Pacific for 142 days. They survived ferocious squalls, shark attacks, terrible thirst and a curious whale. The men finally were rescued near Honolulu, 4500 miles from home. 1989.The true story of how the crews of three Liberty ships, the old wartime freighters that were converted to commercial…
service after 1945, fought a series of devastating hurricanes in the Atlantic in the early 1950s. Some strong language. 2001.Alone in the Appalachians: a city girl's trek from Maine to the Gaspésie
By Monique Dykstra. 2002
Monica Dystra had always wanted to do a long-distance hike and thought it would be pretty easy. Two months, a…
thousand kilometres and countless blisters later, she knew better. Monica hiked the International Appalachian Trail from Maine all the way to Cap Gaspé, Québec. 2002.More than 250,000 courageous men and women were enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. These…
Canadians fought valiantly in every major air operation from the Battle of Britain to the bombing of Germany. Thousands lost their lives. Those who survived to tell their stories were forever changed. Here are some of their incredible stories. 2003.The Halifax explosion: surviving the blast that shook a nation (Amazing stories)
By Joyce Glasner. 2003
A boat full of explosives heads in to the harbour as a large cargo ship steams out to sea. What…
happened next, on a fateful day in December 1917, is etched in history. At least 1900 people lost their lives and 9000 were injured when the largest man-made explosion ever experienced ripped through Halifax and nearby Dartmouth. Panic reigned as the survivors struggled to comprehend what had happened. 2003.A mysterious sighting
By Michella Wyshengrad. 2010
Wild by nature: from Siberia to Australia, three years alone in the wilderness on foot
By Sarah Marquis. 2014
Against nearly insurmountable odds and relying on hunting and her own wits, National Geographic Explorer Sarah Marquis survived the Mafia,…
drug dealers, thieves on horseback who harassed her tent every night for weeks, temperatures from sub-zero to scorching, life-threatening wildlife, a dengue fever delirium in the Laos jungle, tropic ringworm in northern Thailand, dehydration, and a life-threatening abscess. Describes her ten-thousand-mile solo hike across the remote Gobi Desert from Siberia to Thailand, at which point she was transported by boat to complete the hike at her favorite tree in Australia. 2014.The rope in the water: a pilgrimage to India
By Sylvia Fraser. 2001
Sylvia Fraser's three-month pilgrimage to India in search of "something larger than myself, something deeper, something more." Travelling 12,000 kilometres…
as a solitary traveler across deserts and through jungles, she visits sacred sites such as the twilight city of Varanasi on the Ganges and the Golden Temple of the Sikhs; spends time with a Hindu sect up Mount Abu and meditates eleven hours a day for ten days in a Buddhist retreat while observing a vow of silence. 2001.The ice master: the doomed 1913 voyage of the Karluk
By Jennifer Niven. 2000
The story of the 1913 expedition that sailed out of British Columbia in search of the Arctic continent. In January…
1914, an ice cap tore a hole in the vessel's hull, shipwrecking all on board. Drawing from diaries and an interview with the one living survivor, the author recreates the ill-fated journey and the crew's attempts to find their way home. 2000.