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Exploring the frozen North: An Omnibus (Pierre Berton's history for young Canadians.)
By Pierre Berton. 2006
Documents the amazing lives of the men and women who mapped the Arctic at great personal cost. They include Jane…
Franklin, who rallied British and American sailors to comb the Arctic islands in her relentless search for her lost explorer husband, and William Edward Parry, the first white man to attempt exploration of the Arctic islands. Grades 5-8. 2006.Cataract surgery: a patient's guide to cataract treatment
By Uday Devgan. 2008
More than 2.5 million Canadians have cataracts, with many needing surgery. This handbook covers the most frequently asked questions, such…
as What type of new lens is implanted in the eye? What type of anesthesia is used? Is there pain after the surgery? and How soon will vision improve? 2008.Beginnings and blueprints (A kernel Bk. #Vol. 11)
By Kenneth Jernigan. 1996
Nine accounts that give insight into how blind persons handle everyday situations. Jernigan explains how he reads blueprints, Marc Maurer…
tells of building a new porch roof with his two sighted children, and David Walker explains how he fishes alone. 1996.Conscience be my guide: an anthology of prison writings
By Geoffrey Bould. 1991
Harnessing thought: the guide dog : a thinking animal with a skilful mind
By Bruce Johnston. 1995
This book presents a detailed explanation of dog behaviour and psychology, and how dogs can be educated to become skilled…
performers with adaptable and skilful minds, not merely well-conditioned and mechanistic robots. The traditional belief that animals were quite incapable of thinking or of making conscious decisions about alternative courses of decision is a dogma now contended; this book explains how a dog's conscious awareness replicates exactly the thought processes of the human brain. 1995.Guiding stars
By Peter Ireson. 1993
A selection of writings, recollections and images chosen to convey some of the joys and anxieties, achievements and disappointments experienced…
by the generations of people who have either used guide dogs or helped to provide them. 1993.An Iranian odyssey
By Gohar Kordi. 1991
Gohar Kordi was born in a small Kurdish village in Iran. At the age of four she became blind. The…
book chronicles her childhood in the country, the family's move to Teheran and her personal struggle to get an education and become the first woman student at university. 1991.Kobzar's children: a century of stories by Ukrainians
By Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch. 2006
An anthology of short historical fiction, memoirs, and poems written about the Ukrainian immigrant experience. The stories span a century…
of history from 1905 to 2004, and they contain the voices of people who lived through internment as "enemy aliens," homesteading, famine, displacement, concentration camps, and this new century's Orange Revolution. Some descriptions of violence. For senior high readers. 2006.Journey to independence: blindness, the Canadian story
By Euclid J Herie. 2005
Explores the history of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) - from the men who crafted its charter…
to the people who have made it a successful organization. Established in 1918, this organization has guided blind people out of a time of poverty and abuse, bringing them the same rights and freedoms as all Canadians. Millions of Canadians have been touched by the services it provides and by its message of hope. 2005.John Wesley Powell: explorer of the Grand Canyon (Historical American biographies)
By Roger Bruns. 1997
Briefly describes Powell's early years, marriage, and Civil War service, followed by a more detailed portrait of his life as…
an explorer. Recalls his contributions as an adventurer, conservationist, geologist, and anthropologist. Junior High. c1997.Jolliet and Marquette: explorers of the Mississippi River (Explorers of new worlds)
By Daniel E Harmon. 2002
Describes the travels of French explorers Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, and Louis Jolliet, a trader, who sailed down the…
Mississippi River in 1673 hoping to find a westward route across America. Grades 5-8. 2002.Into the silence: the Great War, Mallory and the conquest of Everest
By Wade Davis. 2012
While the quest for Mount Everest may have begun as a grand imperial gesture, it ended as a mission of…
revival for a country and a lost generation bled white by war. In a monumental work of history and adventure, Davis asks not whether George Mallory was the first to reach the summit of Everest, but rather why he kept climbing on that fateful day. 2012.In the land of the red goat
By Bob Henderson. 2006
At age 18, Bob Henderson abandoned his privileged life for the challenges of the mountains of northern B.C. Mentored by…
the Tlogot'ine Indians and a few veteran guides, he adapted to the vagaries of packhorses, float planes, grizzly bears and bureaucrats. His stories recount four decades of wrangling, guiding, flying and fishing. 2006.In the footsteps of Genghis Khan
By John DeFrancis. 1993
DeFrancis writes of how, as a young man in the 1930s, he retraced the travels of Genghis Khan through China.…
Along the way he became prisoner of a Muslim warlord, travelled down the bandit-infested Yellow River, and dodged fighting by Communists nearing the end of their Long March. 1993.In a crystal land: Canadian explorers in Antarctica
By Dean Beeby. 1994
The author recounts the adventures of the many Canadians who explored Antarctica. More than a dozen Canadians were recruited for…
south polar expeditions because of their cold-weather expertise. Beeby uses journals, logbooks, letters, and interviews to tell their stories. 1994.Ice runway
By Roy Mason. 1984
Don't tell mum I work on the rigs: she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse
By Paul Carter. 2006
Taking postings in some of the world's wildest and most remote regions, not to mention some of the roughest oil…
rigs on the planet, Paul has worked, gotten into trouble and been given serious talkings to in locations as far-flung as the North Sea, Middle East, Borneo and Tunisia, as exotic as Sumatra, Vietnam and Thailand, and as flat out dangerous as Columbia, Nigeria and Russia, with some of the maddest, baddest and strangest people you could ever hope not to meet. 2006.This book shows how cultural, economic and moral prejudice locked blind people into frustrating mechanical labour and denied them their…
full humanity. It gives us a picture of historical forces that produced and often controlled ideas about blindness. 2008.Dead lucky: life after death on Mount Everest
By Lincoln Hall. 2007
Lincoln Hall likes to say that on the evening of May 25, 2006 he died on Everest. Attempting to climb…
the mountain during a deadly season in which eleven people perished, Hall was pronounced dead after collapsing from cerebral edema shortly after reaching the summit. Left by members of his expedition, an American guide climbing with two clients and a Sherpa was startled to find Hall the next day, sitting cross-legged on a sharp crest of the summit ridge just staring at them. 2009, c2007.Castaway in paradise: the incredible adventures of true-life Robinson Crusoes
By James C Simmons. 1993
Eight true tales about the experiences of people who were stranded in remote locations because of shipwreck, treacherous companions, or…
personal choice. Describes their survival strategies and their lives after rescue. Includes Alexander Selkirk, the model for Defoe's Crusoe, and Herman Melville, who sojourned in the Marquesas in the South Pacific. 1993.