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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
La littérature pour ceux qui ont tout oublié
By Catherine Mory, Daniel Berlion. 2013
"Un panorama des principaux genres et mouvements littéraires; des biographies vivantes des grands écrivains français et une analyse de leurs…
apports et de leurs styles; des focus sur les oeuvres les plus importantes de la littérature. "-- 4e de couv.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.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.I think you're totally wrong: a quarrel
By David Shields, Powell Caleb. 2014
An impassioned, funny, probing, fiercely inconclusive, nearly-to-the-death debate about life and art - beers included. Caleb Powell always wanted to…
become an artist, but he overcommitted to life, whereas his former professor David Shields always wanted to become a human being, but he overcommitted to art. They spend four days at a cabin in the Cascade Mountains, playing chess, shooting hoops, hiking; they rewatch My Dinner with André and The Trip, relax in a hot tub, and talk about everything they can think of in the name of exploring and debating life and art, marriage, family, sports, sex, happiness, drugs, death, betrayal - and, of course, writers and writing. 2014.Ice runway
By Roy Mason. 1984
Illuminations
By Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Harry Zohn. 1973
The literary-philosophical works of Walter Benjamin rank among the most influential of the post-war era. "Illuminations" contains essays on art…
and philosophy, as well as others on the art of translation, Kafka, storytelling, Baudelaire, Brecht's epic theatre, Proust and book collecting. 1973. Uniform title: Schriften.Arrival: the story of CanLit
By Nick Mount. 2017
In the mid-twentieth century, Canadian literature was transformed from a largely ignored trickle of books into an enormous cultural phenomenon…
that produced Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, Mordecai Richler, and so many others. In "Arrival", acclaimed writer and critic Nick Mount answers the question: What caused the CanLit Boom? 2017.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.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.Flights of a coast dog: a pilot's log
By Jack Schofield. 1999
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.