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Late innings: a baseball companion
By Roger Angell. 1982
Covers the five turbulent seasons of baseball from the spring of 1977 through the autumn of 1981 during the height…
of the game's greatest popularity at the gate. Describes the bitter labour conflicts and the strike that followed, as well as the remarkable performances of such baseball giants as Willie Stargell, Carl Yastrzemski, and Tom Seaver. Sequel to "Five Seasons". Bestseller 1982.Il suffit d'y croire
By Laurence Ink, Robert Laffont. 1994
Récit autobiographique. Parisienne diplômée de Science-Politique et de la faculté de droit, Laurence Ink renonce à une vie conventionnelle pour…
aller mener une existence authentique, éprouvante, dans un lieu sauvage, âpre et grandiose, au coeur de l'immensité du Nord Québécois. c1994.John Franklin: l'homme qui mangea ses bottes
By Anne Pons. 2009
Alors que le réchauffement climatique provoque aujourd'hui la fonte de la banquise arctique, peut-on imaginer que tant d'hommes, tant de…
marins se soient jadis acharnés, au prix de mille souffrances, à trouver ce mythique passage du Nord -Ouest qui devait permettre d'aller directement de l'Atlantique au Pacifique et ouvrir un raccourci vers les richesses de l'Orient ? Ce livre est l'histoire de l'un d'entre eux, l'Anglais John Franklin, ancien de Trafalgar, dont les expéditions successives tinrent en haleine, dans la première moitié du XIXe siècle, la Grande-Bretagne, l'Europe et l'Amérique. Lui et ses hommes arpentèrent des terres inconnues, endurant les rigueurs des hautes latitudes, s'obstinant à forcer le barrage des glaces, découvrant les Indiens et les Esquimaux qu'ils rencontraient pour la première fois, et allant jusqu'à dévorer le cuir de leurs chaussures pour survivre. On ne peut rien comprendre à leur odyssée héroïque sans dénoncer les orgueilleuses traditions de l'Amirauté britannique qui les retenaient d'adopter les vêtements, la nourriture et les coutumes leur permettant d'échapper à la famine et au froid. Drame trop prévisible, la disparition de Franklin en 1845 avec les 129 hommes de l'Erebus et du Terror déclencha une cinquantaine d'expéditions lancées à leur recherche pendant plus de dix ans, grâce au soutien inconditionnel de sa romanesque épouse, lady fane, qui refusa jusqu'au bout de croire à sa mort. Quelques corps ont été retrouvés, il y a seulement une trentaine d'années.Lady Franklin's revenge: a true story of ambition, obsession, and the remaking of Arctic history
By Kenneth McGoogan. 2005
Lady Franklin rode a donkey into Nazareth, sailed up the Nile, and beat her way through the Tasmanian bush wearing…
petticoats. When her husband, Sir John Franklin, disappeared into the Arctic in 1845, she orchestrated a 12-year search, and though she failed to rescue Franklin, she contributed more to the discovery of the North than any celebrated explorer. 2005.J'ai chevauché les océans
By Mike Birch, Olivier Peretié. 2017
Premier vainqueur de la mythique Route du Rhum, Mike Birch est devenu célèbre à 47 ans. A l'âge où les…
marins songent à leur reconversion, ce Canadien commençait une brillante carrière de coureur au large, terminant toujours aux avant-postes des épreuves qui devaient transformer la voile océanique en sport spectacle. Seul à bord d'un petit trimaran jaune, il avait triomphé dans les derniers mètres de cette course endeuillée par la disparition d'Alain Colas. Deux ans plus tôt, à bord d'une minuscule libellule à trois coques, ce parfait inconnu avait déjà fait sensation en terminant sa première transat sur les talons d'Éric Tabarly. Pourtant, ce surdoué du vent n'avait pas d'eau salée dans les veines. Avant de s'élancer seul en mer, il avait été mineur de fond, ouvrier du pétrole, cow-boy, docker, matelot au commerce, mécanicien auto et enfin convoyeur de yachts. Toujours discret, modeste, économe de mots comme de gestes, cet artiste du grand large a enfin consenti à raconter ses mille vies dans ces mémoires étonnants, savoureux, poignants. 2017.Cette nuit, la mer est noire
By Florence Arthaud, Jean-Louis Bachelet. 2015
" Le samedi 29 octobre 2011, alors qu'elle naviguait seule à bord de son voilier, Florence Arthaud tombe à l'eau,…
au large du cap Corse. Isolée, en pleine nuit, sans gilet de sauvetage, la navigatrice va affronter la mort pendant de longues heures. Elle restera en vie grâce à une série de petits miracles : une lampe frontale, un téléphone portable étanche, du réseau et sa mère qui veillait en pleine nuit. Dans ce livre confession, Florence Arthaud revient sur cet épisode tragique. Elle livre les sentiments, les pensées et les souvenirs qui l'ont accompagnée alors qu'elle se noyait en pleine mer. " -- 4e de couv.La Vérendrye (The Canadians)
By Mary Lile Benham. 1980
Great moments in Canadian baseball
By Brian Kendall. 1995
Starting with the first recorded Canadian baseball game in 1838, this book provides 27 famous events. Many events were performed…
by Americans in Canadian playing fields, such as Babe Ruth's first professional home run. Grades 3-6. 1995.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.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.Fail better: Why Baseball Matters
By Mark Kingwell. 2017
Taking seriously the idea that baseball is a study in failure--a very successful batter manages a hit only three of…
every ten attempts--Mark Kingwell explores ways in which the game teaches us lessons on fragility, contingency, and community. Weaving elements of memoir, philosophical reflection, sports writing, and humour, "Fail Better" serves as an unofficial follow-up to "Catch and Release: Trout Fishing and the Meaning of Life", which won over readers by offering an intelligent but accessible look into the deep waters of angling. 2017.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.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.