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Author : George Whalley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (76 download)
Download or read book The Legend of John Hornby written by George Whalley and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Whalley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (933 download)
Download or read book The Legend of John Hornby written by George Whalley and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Whalley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (933 download)
Download or read book The Legend of John Hornby written by George Whalley and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Whalley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (932 download)
Download or read book In the Land of Feast Or Famine written by George Whalley and published by . This book was released on 1957* with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Whalley
Publisher : London : J. Murray
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Legend of John Hornby written by George Whalley and published by London : J. Murray. This book was released on 1962 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of traveller and eccentric. Spent much of his life in the "Barren Ground", Northwest Territories of Canada.
Author : C. M. Sawchuk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (896 download)
Download or read book The Myth of John Hornby written by C. M. Sawchuk and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edgar Christian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Death in the Barren Ground written by Edgar Christian and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the diary of Edgar Christian with introduction and editing by George Whalley. Author's personal account of journey with John Hornby and Harold Adlard to winter in the Thelon Game Sanctuary and to explore a new route from Great Slave Lake to Chesterfield Inlet.
Author : Theatre Passe Muraille Archives (University of Guelph)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (626 download)
Download or read book John Hornby written by Theatre Passe Muraille Archives (University of Guelph) and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nick Hornby
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141902736
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Complete Polysyllabic Spree written by Nick Hornby and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-06-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his monthly accounts of what he's read – along with what he may one day read – Nick Hornby brilliantly explores everything from the classic to the graphic novel, as well as poems, plays, sports books and other kinds of non-fiction. If he occasionally implores a biographer for brevity, or abandons a literary work in favour of an Arsenal match, then all is not lost. His writing, full of all the joy and surprise and despair that books bring him, reveals why we still read, even when there's football on TV, a pram in the hall or a good band playing at our local pub.
Author : James Charles Critchell Bullock
Publisher : Carsten Iwers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Letters from The Barren Lands written by James Charles Critchell Bullock and published by Carsten Iwers. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades hidden in an archive in England: Critchell Bullock’s own account of his odyssey with John Hornby in 1924/25. In 2015 the archivist of Sherborne School (Dorset) disclosed the possession of Bullock's diary from his journey with John Hornby. An authentic and often very personal account, based on letters to a dear friend in England. A narrative about a winter spent in a self-dug cave on the edge of the Canadian Barren Lands, with intimate insights of hope and despair. About their ensuing journey on foot overland and by canoe down the Hanbury and Thelon Rivers, via Baker Lake and Chesterfield Inlet to Hudson Bay. Compiled from letters archived in the USA, Canada and England. Supplemented with content from Bullock's son's personal archive. Featuring unpublished photos, new insights into their journey and previously unknown details about John Hornby. Completed with Guy Houghton Blanchet's narration of a particular incident, never before published in full. “I can’t get over regretting that you did not yourself take the place of Waldron in writing the story of the Hornby-Bullock adventure.” Vilhjalmur Stefansson (May 1931) “Why did not you write up your trip with Hornby yourself? And I might ask further – Why, since you have such a gift of fluent writing you don’t do something in that line?” Guy Houghton Blanchet (August 1950)
Author : Misao Dean
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442612878
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Inheriting a Canoe Paddle written by Misao Dean and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inheriting a Canoe Paddle emphasizes the importance of self-consciously evaluating the meaning we give to canoes as objects and to canoeing as an activity.
Author : Pierre Berton
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385673582
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)
Download or read book Prisoners of the North written by Pierre Berton and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada’s master storyteller returns to the North to chronicle the extraordinary stories of five inspiring and controversial characters. Canada’s master storyteller returns to the North to bring history to life. Prisoners of the North tells the extraordinary stories of five inspiring and controversial characters whose adventures in Canada’s frozen wilderness are no less fascinating today than they were a hundred years ago. We meet Joseph Boyle, the self-made millionaire gold prospector from Woodstock, Ontario, who went off to the Great War with the word “Yukon” inscribed on his shoulder straps, and solid-gold maple-leaf lapel badges. There he survived several scrapes with rogue Bolsheviks, earned the admiration of Trotsky, saved Romania from the advancing Germans, and entered into a passionate affair with its queen. We meet Vilhjalmur Steffansson, who knew every corner of the Canadian North better than any explorer. His claim to have discovered a tribe of “Blond Eskimos” brought him world-wide attention and landed him in controversy that would dog him the rest of his life. There is John Hornby, the eccentric public-school Englishman so enthralled with the Barren Grounds where he lived that he finally starved to death there with the two young men who had joined his adventures. Berton gives us a riveting account of the contradictory life of Robert Service — a world-famous poet whose self-effacement was completely at odds with his public persona. And we meet the extraordinary Lady Jane Franklin, who belied every last stereotype about Victorian women with her immense determination, energy, and sense of adventure. She travelled more widely than even her famous explorer husband, Sir John. And her indefatigable efforts to find him after his disappearance were legendary. A Yukoner himself, Berton weaves these tales of courage, fortitude, and reckless lust for adventure with a love for Canada’s harsh north. With his sharp eye for detail and faultless ear for a good story, Pierre Berton shows once again why he is Canada’s favourite historian.
Author : Michael Posluns
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459729560
Total Pages : 1835 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book The Dundurn Arctic Culture and Sovereignty Library written by Michael Posluns and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2014-05-07 with total page 1835 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special bundle is your essential guide to all things concerning Canada’s polar regions, which make up the majority of Canada’s territory but are places most of us will never visit. The Arctic has played a key role in Canada’s history and in the history of the indigenous peoples of this land, and the area will only become more strategically and economically important in the future. This bundle provides an in-depth crash course, including titles on Arctic exploration (Arctic Obsession), Native issues (Arctic Twilight), sovereignty (In the Shadow of the Pole), adventure and survival (Death Wins in the Arctic), and military issues (Arctic Front). Let this collection be your guide to the far reaches of this country. Arctic Front Arctic Naturalist Arctic Obsession Arctic Revolution Arctic Twilight Death Wins in the Arctic In the Shadow of the Pole Pike’s Portage Voices From the Odeyak
Author : Michael John DiSanto
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773599711
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book The Complete Poems of George Whalley written by Michael John DiSanto and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eminent Canadian man of letters, scholar, naval officer and secret intelligence agent, CBC scriptwriter, musician, biographer, and translator, George Whalley (1915-1983) was also a gifted poet whose work spans five decades. Along with his major critical work, Poetic Process, and his superb biography, The Legend of John Hornby, Whalley’s poetry is an important contribution to the emergence and development of twentieth-century modernism. The Complete Poems of George Whalley is the first collection of Whalley’s entire poetic oeuvre. It contains the previously published work from his two books of poetry, Poems 1939-1944 and No Man An Island, as well as pieces that appeared in periodicals and edited collections. It gathers all his unpublished poems found in public archives and his personal papers, letters, and journals. This collection reinforces Whalley’s place as the foremost Canadian poet of the Second World War, during and immediately after which the majority of these works were written. It also emphasizes the humour and playfulness of his early and late poems. Michael DiSanto’s introduction provides an overview of Whalley’s life and career, and examines the relationship between his poetics and criticism by consulting his essays, letters, and unpublished papers. Restoring Whalley’s poetry and literary contributions to their rightful place in the Canadian canon, this comprehensive collection opens new chapters on mid-twentieth-century modernism and war poetry.
Author : Richard Clarke Davis
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
ISBN 13 : 1895176883
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Lobsticks and Stone Cairns written by Richard Clarke Davis and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lobsticks and stone cairns are landmarks that mark paths and commemorate events. The one hundred biographies in this book also offer themselves as paths to be taken. Centuries of human endeavour, hardship, folly, and suffering are collapsed into stories through which we can discover what the Arctic is and has been. Profiled in this book are "human landmarks" dating from as far back as the sixteenth century to those still active in the North today. Included are stories of adventurers, military officers, authors, guides, culture heroes, police, traders, and even the occasional charlatan. The biographies are of Inuit, European, American, Indian, and Canadian men and women. What appears here is the essence of each person, rendered by an expert and put in a new context, bringing the history and geography of the North to life.
Author : David F. Pelly
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 155488361X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)
Download or read book Thelon written by David F. Pelly and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1996-06-30 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Pelly tells the Thelon’s story, exploring the mystery of Man’s relationship with this special place in the heart of Canada’s vast Arctic barrenlands. From Thanadelthur and Telaruk to J.W. Tyrrell, John Hornby and Eric Morse, the history is detailed, complete and exciting. The Thelon is the setting for a compelling Canadian adventure tale – with all its drama, intrigue, joy and tragedy. But the writer goes beyond that to contemplate the significance of the Thelon wilderness, and to examine its uncertain future. "It is the richness of human experience, layered on top of the natural splendour of the river valley and its wildlife, that really sets the Thelon apart. The place has a history, both Native and non-Native, which gives it standing beyond the intrinsic value of wilderness itself." David Pelly writes as one who has been there time and again. He knows the Thelon from personal experience. As a freelance writer for 20 years, he has travelled many parts of the Arctic, but claims that "nowhere draws me back more powerfully than the Thelon."
Author : Clara Vyvyan
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 1772120901
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (721 download)
Download or read book The Ladies, the Gwich'in, and the Rat written by Clara Vyvyan and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2015-01-02 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1926, two British women came from Cornwall to Edmonton and travelled through northern Alberta, the Northwest Territories, and the Yukon by rail, sternwheeler, and canoe. For the women, it was a liberating experience, yet Vyvyan's narrative, supported by MacLaren and LaFramboise's insightful editorial work, reveals the imperialist attitudes underlying their travels.
