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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 R. D Lawrence. 1982
By Christian Bobin. 2011
" L'encre fraîche de Rimbaud tache mes doigts. Ses proses font trembler l'air au-dessus de la page comme sur une…
route fondue au soleil d'été. Je vais chercher mon pain, mes nuages et mes étoiles dans l'unique librairie du Creusot. L'acacia au bas de la rue du Guide surgit comme un donateur fou. Son haleine sent le miel et l'or. Toutes les fleurs se ruent vers nous en nous léguant de leur vivant leur couleur et leur innocence. Les contempler mène à la vie parfaite. Les anémones sont si crédules que même l'enfer leur donne raison. " -- 4e de couv.By Rosalind Massow. 1985
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 Barbara Hehner. 1999
An anthology that celebrates Canada's life and times, filled with stories, songs, poems, and legends. Beginning with native creation myths,…
a cross-section of Canadian history follows, including the discovery of the New World, early settlement, and Confederation, as well as legends, humour, and multiculturalism. Highlights classic pieces, such as "In Flanders Fields" and "The Hockey Sweater", as well as hidden gems. For Grade 2 and up. 1999.By William Fiennes. 2002
Every spring, millions of geese embark on an arduous three-thousand-mile migration from their winter quarters in the southern United States…
to their breeding grounds in the Canadian Arctic. One year William Fiennes decided to go with them. Intrigued by what he'd read about the birds' amazing annual journey, Fiennes was also desperate to emerge from a period of illness and from the belief that, at age twenty-six, his life had ground to a halt. 2002.By Beth Hill, Frances Barkley. 1978
Frances Barkley was the first European woman to set foot on the coast of B.C. In 1786, she embarked from…
Europe on a trade and exploration voyage with her husband, Captain Charles W. Barkley. Her reminiscences contain her descriptions of their life at sea, and visits to South America, India, China, and what is now known as Alaska and British Columbia. 1978.By Ralph Waldo Emerson, Malcolm Cowley, Carl Bode. 1981
This selection of poetry and essays by Emerson includes: "The American scholar", his address to the Phi Beta Kappa society…
at Harvard; his controversial 1838 address to the graduating class of the Cambridge Divinity School; and his first published work, "Nature", which contains the essence of his transcendentalist philosophy. 1981.By Clarence Brown. 2003
Clarence Brown's collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin,…
Zamyatin, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Voinovich; excerpts from Andrei Bely's "Petersburg", Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita", Boris Pasternak's "Dr. Zhivago", and Sasha Solokov's "A School for Fools"; the complete text of Yuri Olesha's 1927 masterpiece "Envy"; and poetry by Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, and Osip Mandelstam. 2003.By Stephen Leacock, Robertson Davies. 1981
This collection from the beginning of the century ranges from observations about the absurdities of everyday life to fantastic stories…
such as that of A, B and C, that famous trio featured in mathematical problems. 1981.By Patricia Craig. 1998
An anthology of Irish writing from Celtic times to the late 1990s. Includes excerpts from novels, poetry, and philosophy by…
peasants and the famous. Many passages lament the occupation of the land by the British. 1998.By Bill Bryson. 1992
Here in one volume are two comic masterpieces by Bill Bryson, the books that have brought him acclaim as one…
of the funniest writers at work today. "The Lost Continent" is the story of Bryson's return to America, the land of his youth, after ten years in England. He borrowed his mother's car and set out, and his account of his journey has become a classic. In "Neither here nor there" Bryson is in Europe, travelling from Hammerfest in Norway to Istanbul. Fluent in at least one language, a backpack on his shoulders and a tight fist on his wallet, Bryson is a hilarious guide. Strong language. 1992.By Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Nicholas Biddle. 1992
A recording of parts of Lewis' journal which include: first encounters with the Sioux; wintering at the Mandan villages; Sacajawea;…
portage of the Great Falls of the Missouri; horse trading with the Shoshonees; running rapids on the Columbia; and the first exploration of the Yellowstone. 1992. Uniform title: History of the expedition under the command of Captains Lewis and Clark.By Kathleen Collins, Nina Lorez Collins. 2019
A stunning collection of fiction, diary entries, screenplays, and scripts which spans genres to reveal the breadth and depth of…
the late author's talent. The compilation is anchored by Collins' short stories, which, striking and powerful in their brevity, reveal the ways in which relationships are formed and come undone. 2019. Uniform title: Works.By Robert M Pirsig. 1974
The narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son becomes a text which speaks directly…
to the confusions and agonies of existence, detailing a personal, philosophical odyssey. 1974.By Beth Brant. 1984