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By Lois Keith. 1994
A collection of writings by disabled women, in which they share, sometimes with humour, the everyday reality of their lives,…
and seek to challenge the clichés and misconceptions commonly held about disabled people. 1994.By Bear Grylls. 2011
By Jennifer Lesieur. 2010
Portrait de l'aviatrice américaine, star internationale et icône de la femme moderne dans l'Amérique des années 1930. Sa disparition en…
mer, alors qu'elle accomplit un tour du monde, reste encore un mystère aujourd'hui. 2010.By Arlyn J Roffman. 2000
Suggestions for adults on coping with learning disabilities and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Uses case studies to illustrate how to…
contend with daily life including employment, dating, parenthood, intimacy, and mental health. Offers strategies for transitioning from high school. c2000.By Daniel Conner, Lorraine Miller. 1978
By Patrick Poivre D'Arvor, Olivier Poivre D'Arvor. 2005
Bercés depuis l'enfance par les récits des acteurs de la "Ligne", Olivier et Patrick Poivre d'Arvor se sont approprié leurs…
histoires pour livrer ce "roman de l'Aéropostale" au ton très personnel, fruit d'un pèlerinage sur les lieux de cette épopée. Au-delà de la prouesse technique, ils redonnent chair aux héros statufiés par la postérité comme Saint-Exupéry, Latécoère, Daurat et Bouilloux-Lafont, sans qui rien n'aurait pu se faire. 2005.By André Brugiroux, Jérôme Bourgine. 2014
" Quand il a commencé son périple en 1955, André Brugiroux avait un rêve : voir tous les pays du…
monde. Presque soixante ans plus tard, le petit banlieusard sans moyens a accompli l'impossible. Sur la route, il vit toutes les aventures. Il est emprisonné au Costa Rica, le mur de Berlin se construit sous ses yeux, il rencontre le docteur Schweitzer au Gabon, se rend à Angkor en pleine guerre, prend le Transsibérien au milieu de la guerre froide, meurt presque de soif dans le désert... Pourtant la réussite majeure d'André est ailleurs : le monde est devenu sa patrie et les hommes sont sa famille. Partout, il a trouvé des gens merveilleux. À chaque fois qu'il tombait, quelqu'un était là pour lui tendre la main et le relever. Sa véritable aventure a d'abord été humaine. Profondément et passionnément humaine... De 1955 à 2014 : aventures autour du globe à la découverte de soi et des autres. " -- 4e de couv.By R. D Symons. 1994
The reminiscences of one of the founders of the modern conservationist movement. Symons was a game warden in the 1920s…
and 1930s in the West, patrolling the Battlefords, Hudson Bay, and Cypress Hills regions. He recounts the adventures and many memorable characters he met on his patrols. 1994.By Adrian Sandler. 1997
A physician explains the birth defect spina bifida and possible associated impairments, and offers advice on promoting good health and…
optimal development at every stage from childhood through young adulthood. c1997.By Eleanor Meecham. 2007
This New Zealand author shares her bicycle journey through the lower half of South America on a bicycle. Her journey…
takes her up and down the Andes, across deserts and into Tierra del Fuego. She was spurred on by the memory of her deceased brother's determined and fearless spirit. 2007.By Conor Grennan. 2011
In search of adventure, twenty-nine-year-old Conor Grennan traded his day job for a year-long trip around the globe, a journey…
that began with a three-month stint volunteering at the Little Princes Children's Home, an orphanage in war-torn Nepal. Conor was initially reluctant to volunteer, unsure whether he had the proper skill, or enough passion, to get involved in a developing country in the middle of a civil war. But he was soon overcome by the herd of rambunctious, resilient children who would challenge and reward him in a way that he had never imagined. When Conor learned the unthinkable truth about their situation, he was stunned: The children were not orphans at all. Child traffickers were promising families in remote villages to protect their children from the civil war--for a huge fee--by taking them to safety. They would then abandon the children far from home, in the chaos of Nepal's capital, Kathmandu. For Conor, what began as a footloose adventure becomes a commitment to reunite the children he had grown to love with their families, but this would be no small task. He would risk his life on a journey through the legendary mountains of Nepal, facing the dangers of a bloody civil war and a debilitating injury. Waiting for Conor back in Kathmandu, and hopeful he would make it out before being trapped in by snow, was the woman who would eventually become his wife and share his life's work. Little Princes is a true story of families and children, and what one person is capable of when faced with seemingly insurmountable odds. Bestseller. 2011.By A. Scott Berg. 1998
The authorized biography of the pilot who became a symbol of the aviation age. Describes Lindbergh's 1927 transatlantic flight as…
the defining moment of his life. Discusses his role in the development of aviation for use in war and peacetime. Explores facets of Lindbergh's public and private images. Pulitzer Prize winner. c1998.By Pierre Maturié, Vivien Elizabeth Bosley. 2013
In 1910, young Pierre Maturie bid farewell to his comfortable life in rural France and travelled to northern Alberta in…
search of independence, adventure, and newfound prosperity. Some sixty years later, he wrote of the four years he spent in Canada before he returned to France in 1914 to fight in the First World War. Like that of so many youthful pioneers, his story is one of adventure and hardship - perilous journeys, railroad construction in the Rockies, panning for gold in swift-flowing streams, transporting goods for the Hudson's Bay Company along the Athabasca River. A portrait of pioneer life in northern Alberta, and a window onto the French experience in Canada. 2013, c1972. Uniform title: Athabasca, terre de ma jeunesse.By Stephen R Bown. 2008
From 1792 to 1795, George Vancouver sailed the Pacific waters as captain of a major expedition of discovery and imperial…
ambition. Britain had its eyes on Pacific North America, and Vancouver charted four thousand miles of coastline from California to Alaska - one of history's greatest feats of maritime daring, scientific discovery, marine cartography and international diplomacy. However, Vancouver's triumph was overshadowed by bitter smear campaigns initiated by enemies he had made on board. Some descriptions of violence, and some descriptions of sex. c2008.Explores the way disability activists in the United Kingdom and Canada have transformed their aspirations into legal claims in their…
quest for equality. It unpacks shifting conceptualizations of the political identity of disability and the role of a rights discourse in these dynamics. In doing so, it delves into the diffusion of disability rights among grassroots organizations and the traditional disability charities. 2011.By Tracy Edwards, Tim Madge. 1990
"Maiden" is the inspiring story of how Tracy Edwards, a modest 27-year-old, took a yacht and the first all-female crew…
ever to race round the globe through storms and savage seas. This is a book about great courage, great endeavour, and extraordinary determination. It is also a story of how anyone can have a dream and, against all odds, come through triumphant. 1990.By Louis Arnould. 2015
Ce livre est une réédition de l'oeuvre de Louis Arnould parue en 1904. L'auteur y relate l'histoire de l'éducation par…
une religieuse, Soeur Sainte-Marguerite, de la Congrégation des Filles de la Sagesse, d'une aveugle sourde muette de naissance. Pendant plus de dix ans, la fille lourdement handicapée va ainsi apprendre à mettre en relation des signes et des objets, découvrir l'alphabet Braille... Ses progrès seront tels qu'elle deviendra elle-même éducatrice d'autres personnes atteintes de cécité et de surdité dont sa propre soeur. Ce livre apporta une renommée internationale à la méthode de rééducation suivie par les religieuses de Larnay, près de Poitiers, qui continuent aujourd'hui d'accueillir des personnes handicapées. Ce livre contribua à la renommée internationale de la jeune femme, Marie Heurtin. Son cas devint aussi célèbre que celui de Helen Keller aux Etats-Unis. Son histoire inspira également le cinéaste Jean-Pierre Améris qui réalisa en 2014 un film avec Isabelle Carré salué par la critique et apprécié par un large public. 2015.By Steph Davis, Éric Vola, Laure Roussel. 2013
" Une des stars de l'escalade relate ses débuts dans la discipline et aborde quelques-unes des aventures qui ont forgé…
sa carrière : ses ascensions, ses vols en wingsuit ou ses sauts en base jump. " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: High infatuation: a climber's guide to love and gravity.By Oscar Dexter Brooks. 1991
In 1924, Oscar Brooks left his home in Saskatchewan in a search for adventure. Using the language of the road,…
he recalls the three years that he spent riding the rails across Canada. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 1991.By Josef Schovanec. 2016
Une immense mathématicienne, un bidouilleur informatique de génie, une passionnée d'art, un lecteur compulsif, un clochard céleste, un professeur excentrique...…
Chacun amoureux des langues, des nombres, des livres, des ordinateurs ou des couleurs, en autant de portraits, de visages et de récits dont les fils noués par l'auteur composent un monde et élaborent cette histoire si particulière de l'amour. L'amour en Autistan, ce pays fictif peuplé de personnes bizarres. 2016.