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Marco Polo (Connais-tu? ; #3)
By Johanne Ménard. 2010
Connais-tu Marco Polo, le plus intrépide voyageur du Moyen Âge? Ce fils de marchand de Venise parti au bout du…
monde à l'âge de 17 ans? Celui dont les aventures extraordinaires ont inspiré de grands explorateurs comme Christophe Colomb? Années 1-3. 2010.One river: explorations and discoveries in the Amazon rain forest
By Wade Davis. 1996
Ethnobotanist Richard Schultes took a leave of absence from Harvard from 1941 to 1953 to collect specimens of psychoactive and…
medicinal plants in the Amazon rain forest. His student Tim Plowman embarked on a similar journey with the author during 1974 and 1975. Davis recalls the discoveries, travels, and adventures of both. c1996.Le crash et le défi, survivre (À vrai dire)
By Johanne De Montigny. 1985
29 mars, 1979. Un F-27 de Québécair quitte l'aéroport de L'Ancienne-Lorette à destination de Montréal. Une minute 48 seconds plus…
tard, c'est le crash. Bilan: 17 morts. Voici le récit bouleversant d'une des sept passagers qui ont eu la vie sauve. 1985.On board the Titanic: what it was like when the great liner sank (I was there book)
By Shelley Tanaka, Ken Marschall. 1996
The story of the Titanic, once the world's largest ocean liner, as told through the experiences of two of its…
survivors. Detailed explanations about the ship, passengers, and crew are interwoven with an account of its tragic sinking in 1912. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 1997 Silver Birch Award. c1996.North to the Pole
By Paul Schurke, Will Steger. 1987
Les cannibales de Dieu
By Peter Gzowski, Pan Bouyoucas. 1981
Voici l'histoire véridique d'une lutte désespérée contre la résignation et la mort. L'histoire de deux êtres isole, transis de froid,…
souffrants et affames qui, pour s'en sortir, durent prendre une terrible décision : manger de la chair humaine. Quelques descriptions de violence. 1981. Titre uniforme: The sacrament.Night witches: the untold story of Soviet women in combat
By Bruce Myles. 1990
In 1941, as the Nazi hordes swept eastward into the Soviet Union, the desperate call went out for female volunteers…
to join the Russian air force. Making up three regiments, the lives, exploits, loves and fears of these women are captured here - the pilots whom the Germans came to dread as the "Night witches". 1990.My left foot
By Christy Brown. 2003
Christy Brown was born with cerebral palsy, but inside the baby lay the brilliantly imaginative and sensitive mind of a…
writer who one day would take his place among the giants of Irish literature. This is his story: how he fought to learn to read, write, paint and finally type with the toe of his left foot. That was how he wrote his bestseller "Down all the days". 2003.Mon coeur s'appelle Amazonie (Collection "Vécu")
By Anne-Sophie Tiberghien. 1983
Mon oncle d'Australie
By Michèle Decoust. 2000
L'enfant des neiges: récit
By Nicolas Vanier. 2004
Mendiant de l'infini: fragments nomades : récit
By André Carpentier. 2002
En juin 2000, André Carpentier, professeur au département d'études littéraires de l'UQAM, part à la conquête du mythique mont Kaislash,…
au Tibet. Bien loin du trekking ou du périple spirituel, l'aventure de Carpentier est celle d'un pèlerin du nouveau siècle, à la fois personnelle et branchée sur l'universel. Résultat : un magnifique récit de voyage rédigé sans prétention dans une langue d'une richesse peu commune. 2002.Messing about in boats: the nautical confessions of an unsinkable Irishman
By Will Millar. 1997
Will Millar, former member of the Irish Rovers band, tells of his boating journeys around the world, and his adventures…
on shore. Told with his well-known Irish charm and humour. 1997.Mer, courage: 24 récits de sauvetage maritime
By Henri Dumoulin. 1987
Ces 24 récits rapportent des faits authentiques. Certains de ces sauvetages ont acquis la notoriété, d'autres sont demeurés anonymes. Tous…
mettent en exergue l'héroïsme d'individus qui ont trouvé, le plus souvent, pour toute récompense d'avoir accompli leur devoir. 1987.Mémoires de la mer: cinq siècles de trésors et d'aventures (Folio Ser. #Vol. 31850)
By Sophie De Sivry, Marie-Pierre Demarcq, Jean De Préneuf. 2005
Des premiers manuels de pilotage aux carnets d'Eric Tabarly. Une grande fresque historique marquée du souffle de l'aventure. 800 trésors…
inédits trouvés dans les archives françaises, qui nous emportent sur toutes les mers du monde. 2005.Maternity rolls: pregnancy, childbirth and disability
By Heather Kuttai. 2010
Combining ethnology and memoir, describes the issues surrounding childbirth and motherhood for disabled women. The author, a paraplegic, tells about…
her own hunt for medical advice before getting pregnant - and then about the normal births of her two children - before widening the conversation to other disabled women and sympathetic members of the medical community. Includes strong language. 2010.La route des icebergs est celle que suivent chaque année les brise-glace de la Garde côtière canadienne. Du Saint-Laurent aux…
confins du Pôle Nord, ils ouvrent des passages aux navires marchands ou les dégagent lorsqu'ils sont pris dans la glace. À bord, les marins du froid vivent les tensions qui naissent de la promiscuité, les rigueurs extrêmes du climat, mais aussi la solidarité des gens de mer. Monique Pieri fut la première et la seule reporter à les accompagner durant un été complet. 1988.Little ship of fools: 16 rowers, 1 improbable boat, 7 tumultuous weeks on the Atlantic
By Charles Wilkins. 2013
Limits of the known
By David Roberts. 2018
A celebrated mountaineer and author searches for meaning in great adventures and explorations, past and present. David Roberts, "veteran mountain…
climber and chronicler of adventures" (Washington Post), has spent his career documenting voyages to the most extreme landscapes on earth. He reflects on humanity's--and his own--relationship to extreme risk. Part memoir and part history, this book tries to make sense of why so many have committed their lives to the desperate pursuit of adventure. In the wake of his diagnosis with throat cancer, Roberts seeks answers with sharp new urgency. 2018.Listening with my heart
By Angela Elwell Hunt, Heather Whitestone-McCallum. 1997
The author tells of growing up deaf after a childhood illness and dreaming first of being a dancer and then…
of being a beauty pageant winner. Crowned Miss America in 1995, Whitestone became the first victor with a disability. She tells of her belief that she is following God's plan and describes the five guiding principles that helped her find success. 1997.