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Down home: notes of a Maritime son
Par Harry Bruce. 1988
Harry Bruce, born in Toronto, returned to Nova Scotia where his family had lived since the 18th century. After residing…
there for 17 years, he believes that he finally has become a true Maritimer. In this book, he combines history, sociology, autobiography, cuisine, travelogue and etymology to describe and explain the people of the Maritimes. 1988.Atlas of a lost world: travels in ice age America
Par Craig Childs. 2018
Thousands of years ago, sea levels were low enough that a land bridge was exposed between Asia and North America.…
But it was not the only way across. This book upends our notions of human arrival in the New World. 2018.Far and wide: bring that horizon to me
Par Neil Peart. 2016
In May 2015, the veteran Canadian rock trio Rush embarked on their 40th anniversary tour, R40. It was a celebration…
and, perhaps, a farewell. But for Neil Peart, each tour is more than just a string of concerts, it's an opportunity to explore backroads near and far on his BMW motorcycle. In an intimate voice that has won the hearts of many readers, Peart carries the reader across North America and through memories of fifty years of playing drums. 2016.Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans: the foundations of Western Civilization (Modern scholar)
Par Timothy Baker Shutt. 2003
Kenyon College professor, Timothy B. Shutt delivers a course that will examine the foundations of Western Civilization. Through literature that…
has survived the ages, this course will look at the culture of the ancient Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans, and likewise look at how these cultures interacted with each other. 2003.Heart of the raincoast: A Life Story
Par Alexandra Morton. 1998
When whale researcher Alex Morton's husband drowned, she and her young son stayed on in the tiny community of Echo…
Bay, B.C. To earn a living, she worked for Billy Proctor as a seasick, greenhorn deckhand. In the process, she learned about his 50 years as a fisherman, and about the B.C. coastline. c1998.Grizzly Bear Mountain
Par Jack Boudreau. 2000
Sequel to Crazy Man's Creek (DC23589), which was 2 years on the BC Bestsellers' list. Jack Boudreau grew up in…
a small town in the McGregor Mountains in B.C. Children did many things to amuse themselves and we follow Jack through his early encounters with grizzly bears, first as a hunter and later as a photographer. 2000.Hard light
Par Michael Crummey. 1998
Crummey retells and reinvents his father's stories of outport Newfoundland and the Labrador fishery of a half century ago. Speaking…
through generations of storytellers, he conjures a world of hard toil and heavy weather, shot through with stoicism, grim humour, endurance, and love. Some descriptions of violence. 1998.Hello Halifax (Canada rainbow series)
Par Elma Schemenauer. 1986
Houseboat chronicles: notes from a life in Shield country
Par Jake MacDonald. 2002
Part memoir, part reportage, MacDonald's book reflects on his lifelong fascination with the Canadian Shield. MacDonald spent years working in…
and exploring this area. He writes of his travels, the people who make their living there, his interest in Native culture, and the Shield's wildlife. 2002.How Rome fell: death of a superpower
Par Adrian Keith Goldsworthy. 2009
Describes the forces that ultimately destroyed the Roman Empire, challenging the traditional assumption that Rome was sacked by ultimately irrepressible…
foreign armies. Asserts that Rome's foes in the death throes of empire weren't any more formidable than those at its peak, but that the cutthroat nature of its political system fractured and diverted forces better spent maintaining the integrity of provincial borders - it was civil war and paranoia that destroyed the empire from within. 2009.Greek and Roman life (British Museum Paperbacks Ser.)
Par Ian Jenkins. 1986
First peoples in a new world: colonizing Ice Age America
Par David J. Meltzer. 2009
Archaeologist explores the origins of the first North Americans, their migratory routes into the New World, and the ecological conditions…
they encountered. Discusses the methods used by archaeologists, geologists, linguists, physical anthropologists, and geneticists to arrive at these conclusions - which are often at odds. 2009.Fingerprints of the gods: The Evidence Of Earth's Lost Civilization
Par Graham Hancock. 1995
The author compiles compelling evidence of a technologically and culturally advanced civilization that he argues was destroyed from human memory.…
To do this he used data from archaeology, astronomy, geology and computer analysis of ancient myths. 1995.Egypt before the pharaohs: the prehistoric foundations of Egyptian civilization
Par Michael A Hoffman. 1979
Drifting home: A Family's Voyage Of Discovery Down The Wild Yukon River
Par Pierre Berton. 1973
Dying every day: Seneca at the court of Nero
Par James S Romm. 2014
Explores the moral struggles, political intrigues and violent vendettas that enmeshed Seneca, the ancient Roman writer and philosopher, in the…
brutal daily lives of the imperial family and the regime of his student, Nero. 2014.Doors open Toronto: illuminating the city's great spaces
Par John Sewell. 2002
This book introduces Toronto's greatest spaces, from architectural jewels to buildings that were witness to some of the city's most…
important moments. Former mayor John Sewell takes us on a tour of the Toronto places every citizen and visitor should see, such as Osgoode Hall, the old Don Jail, and the Chapel of St. James-the-Less. 2002.Classical mythology: the Romans (The modern scholar)
Par Peter Meineck. 2005
In this course, New York University professor Peter Meineck examines, in detail, the way in which military power, colonial organization,…
superior technology, a well-organized infrastructure, and a cohesive economic system helped to make Rome such a successful empire. These elements of Roman genius are well known, but it was the very idea of Rome that proved persuasive and this Roman ideal was born from mythology. 2005.City hall & Mrs. God: a passionate journey through a changing Toronto
Par Cary Fagan. 1990
This personal portrait of a city in upheaval shows a polarized social structure which characterizes the new Toronto. The author…
shows a city divided into the powerful and the powerless, the outrageous and the outraged. 1990.Canada made me
Par Norman Levine. 1993
In 1956 writer Norman Levine, seven years an expatriate in England, returned for an unsentimental journey through his homeland. Drawn…
toward the bottom rungs of Canadian society - the beer parlours, the bunkhouses filled with immigrant miners, the cheap flophouses - he wrote an account so bitter that it didn't find a Canadian publisher for more than 20 years. Levine, now considered one of Canada's finest short story writers, maintains "my writing starts with this book." 1993, c1958.