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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.Hiking the Continental Divide Trail: one woman's journey
By Jennifer A Hanson. 2011
A grand journey of over 2,000 miles from Mexico to Canada! Avid outdoorswoman Jennifer Hanson and her husband Greg Allen…
set off to thru-hike the Continental Divide Trail. During their hike, Jennifer learned she had lost her father to cancer and, within three weeks, her husband was forced to leave the trail due to injury. Jennifer finished the last nine hundred miles of the trail alone. Includes the thru-hike preparation and timeline, an equipment and clothing list, a food list, itinerary and supply points, a map list and sources. 2011.Hockey for kids: heroes, tips and facts
By Brian McFarlane. 1994
Flights of a coast dog: a pilot's log
By Jack Schofield. 1999
Etched in ice: a tribute to hockey's defining moments
By Michael McKinley. 1998
"Etched in Ice" showcases the builders and broadcasters, the dramas and pathos, of a sport that has long made winter…
the hottest season. It includes not only the titans and their achievements, but it also takes us to the men and women who are not household names, yet have affected the game in their own remarkable ways: the first big-time team on the West Coast; a gifted American player cut down early in World War I; a women's team that lost only two games out of 350 during the 1930s. 1998.By snowshoe, buckboard and steamer: women of the frontier
By Kathryn Anne Bridge. 1998
Four nineteenth century women: Florence Agassiz, Eleanor Fellows, Violet Sillitoe and Helen Kate Woods, lived and traveled in British Columbia…
very much as a minority - white and female. Bridge looks at each of these pioneering women, first through their writings and then within the historical context of the time. 1998.Escapes! (True stories from the edge)
By Laura Scandiffio. 2003
From getaway gladiators to runaway slaves, from the endless Sahara to the impassable Bastille, here are ten nail-biting tales of…
escape. Read how six Americans, caught in the 1979 uprising in Iran, found protection at the Canadian embassy, and later, disguised as Canadians, were able to flee the country. Discover Lady Nithsdale's ruse to free her husband from the impenetrable Tower of London in 1716, fall into Douglas Bader's harrowing escape from a plummeting Spitfire in World War II, or hold your breath as two families drift over the Berlin Wall in a homemade hot-air balloon. Grades 5-8. 2003.Bent props and blow pots: a pioneer remembers Northern bush flying
By Rex Terpening. 2003
Crash landings were part of the job in the early 1930s, when the author started out in arctic aviation. As…
an air engineer for Canadian Airways in the Northwest Territories, he flew "on operations" daily, warming the oil and the engine on winter mornings, refuelling, and inevitably mending both engine and aircraft when things went wrong. From Fort McMurray to the Arctic Ocean, his stories tell of planes wandering lost over unmapped muskeg, perilous rescue missions to retrieve stranded missionaries, dogged searches for downed flyers lost on the Barrens and emergency landings in blizzards on nameless pothole lakes. 2003.Hockey towns: untold stories from the heart of Canada
By Kirstie McLellan Day, Ron MacLean. 2015
In his 28 years on 'Hockey Night in Canada' and now as host of Rogers' 'Hometown Hockey', Ron has met…
fascinating people from coast to coast and has great stories to tell. From London to Castlegar, Yellowknife to Cole Harbour, Medicine Hat to Trois Rivieres, from Bantam to Junior B to the NHL, our country is full of great characters: players, coaches, hockey moms and hockey dads; rivalries, practical jokes, careers that grew out of nothing and "can't lose" prospects who flamed out too soon - all compelling, entertaining and inspiring. Bestseller. 2015.Healing the eye the natural way: alternative medicine and macular degeneration
By Edward Kondrot. 2000
A look at how to heal and care for your eyes with nutrition, vitamin therapy, mineral therapy, homeopathy, microcurrent stimulation,…
and chelation therapy. Includes exercises and tips for everyday living. 2001.How does it feel to be blind?: the psychodynamics of visual impairment
By Paul J Schulz. 1980
The author has elucidated the vast experiences and reactions of the newly blind person in a thorough, insightful way which…
will prove valuable to those who deal with the problems of the blind. 1980.Home from the hill: three gentlemen adventurers
By Peter Murray. 1994
Three Englishmen -- Warburton Pike, Clive Phillips-Wolley, and Martin Grainger -- made their mark on Canada in the early 1900s…
through their wilderness explorations in British Columbia. They wrote about and promoted Canada in Engand, and in different ways they helped to shape the province. 1994.Hockey night in Canada: sport, identities, and cultural politics (Culture and communication in Canada series)
By Richard S Gruneau, David Whitson. 1993
The authors present an examination of hockey as a statement about personal and national identity. From the professional level to…
small town leagues, they consider hockey as an expression of changing popular culture. 1993.Ghosts of Everest: the search for Mallory & Irvine : from the expedition that discovered Mallory's body
By Jochen Hemmleb, Larry A Johnson, Eric R Simonson. 1999
Presents research and findings from the 1999 Mount Everest expedition in search of remains from the ill-fated 1924 climb by…
George Mallory and Sandy Irvine. Discusses the latter-day group's reconstruction of Mallory's route, the dramatic discovery of his body, and the conclusions reached from forensic examination. 1999.Hollywood the hard way: a cowboy's journey
By Patti Dickinson. 1999
In 1945 Oklahoma rancher Rolla Goodnight bet his friend Jimmy Wakely, a singing cowboy star, that Rolla's grandson could ride…
1,500 miles in less than fifty days to Hollywood, California. The author recounts twenty-year-old Jerry Van Meter's grueling trek on horseback across mountains and deserts to his destination. 1999.Glaucoma: a patient's guide to the disease, fourth edition
By Graham E Trope. 2011