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Over the top of the world: explorer Will Steger's trek across the Arctic
Par Will Steger. 1997
Recounts Steger's 1995 trip over the North Pole by dogsled and canoe. Steger's journey begins in Siberia with six teammates,…
thirty-three dogs, and two tons of gear. His journal entries detail daily events, weather conditions, setbacks, dog problems, and human difficulties in successfully mounting the expedition. Grades 4-7Adventures
Par Tana Reiff. 1993
Le vaste monde: scènes d'enfance
Par Robert Lalonde. 1999
A night to remember
Par Walter Lord. 1955
A detailed portrayal of what happened aboard the Titanic when it struck an iceberg and began to sink in the…
North Atlantic on April 14, 1912. Based on account of the survivors from first class passengers to steerage and crew. BestsellerFifteen accounts of epic mountain-climbing adventure. Most are long excerpts from books about life-threatening experiences. Includes heroic achievements, disasters, and…
near-disasters such as "avalanches, storms, altitude sickness, falls, crevasses, blood clots, spiritual crises, broken ice picks, and homicidal military bureaucrats."Pirandello: biographie de l'enfant échangé
Par Andrea Camilleri. 2002
Biographie en forme de récit passionné, vu que l'auteur-écrivain est à la fois concitoyen et confrère de Pirandello. Le sous-titre…
insiste sur un caractère important de la vie du nouvelliste et dramaturge sicilien [SDMParis en miettes (Liberté grande)
Par Yan Hamel. 2023
Des romanciers québécois ont parfois pris le risque d'emmener leurs personnages à Paris pour qu'ils essaient (désir, velléité, épreuve ?)…
d'y vivre. Yan Hamel, lisant ces romans que signèrent Anne Hébert, Marie-Claire Blais, Jacques Poulin, Michel Tremblay, Gail Scott, Jacques Godbout, Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, la Manitobaine Gabrielle Roy et l'Acadienne France Daigle, n'a pu que constater les tristes inappétences de ces émigrés romanesques, un mal-être nourri d'un sourd et profond sentiment de servitude culturelle. Il rage devant ce constat, il s'emporte et se fait, en héraut tocard, le ramasse-miettes de ces agapes ratéesExiste-t-il une littérature québécoise contre les chaises berçantes ?: pamphlet
Par Patrick Tillard. 2023
Aux "merdivals" et autres "merdias télévisuels", il oppose plusieurs paroles libres d'hérétiques à la recherche d'une littérature créative et poétique…
définie par son audace, par ses déchirures, par un écart salvateur d'avec les perspectives balisées de l'enclos culturel. La fausse conscience et la résignation portée par la littérature québécoise contemporaine, son conformisme, sa soumission aux lois du marché ou aux politiques du moment, les complaisances enfin de ses auteur·es sont bien entendu dénoncéesCrépuscules admirables: nécrologies (Collection Liberté grande)
Par Thomas Mainguy. 2022
Chaque être qui a commencé à croire en la possibilité de sa mort se réveille dans la mélancolie. Il se…
sent, quelque part au fond de lui-même où loge sa peine écrasante ou sa lucidité sereine, virtuellement dépossédé de ce qu'il est. L'ensemble des nécrologies qui suivent - c'est ainsi que j'appelle ces textes qui traitent d'écrivains disparus - fréquente ces profondeurs crépusculaires, mais avec des antennes permettant aussi d'attraper les clartés qui les pénètrent et parfois les déchirent, au point de nous éblouir admirablementRegard d'Annie Dillard (Contre jour)
Par Thomas Mainguy, Guillaume Asselin, Jean-François Bourgeault, Gabrielle Chevarier, Sara Danièle Bélanger Michaud. 2023
Dans Une enfance américaine, Annie Dillard se remémore sa jeunesse et discerne les étapes de construction de sa vie intérieure.…
Elle raconte avoir dessiné à répétition, durant un été, son gant de baseball. Cet exercice rappelle l'une des forces de son imaginaire, à savoir l'action du regard. Dessiner un objet, c'est se conduire à l'oubli de soi. Le présent ouvrage tente ainsi de cerner les vertiges que l'écrivaine explore depuis les années 1970Albatross: a true story of a woman's survival at sea
Par Deborah Kiley. 1994
At twenty-four, Deborah signs on to the crew of a private yacht. She immediately has misgivings due to the personalities…
and work habits of the others. As they sail to Florida, a storm and a series of mishaps sink the boat, leaving the five-person crew fighting hypothermia in a small dinghy. Sharks, blood poisoning, and the effects of salt water reduce the crew to two. Strong languagePolar dream
Par Helen Thayer. 1993
In 1988, fifty-year-old Thayer and her newly acquired Inuit husky, Charlie, set off for a month-long trek to the North…
Pole. Forewarned about the ferocity of polar bears, Thayer is dismayed to encounter them regularly but deters them with flares and Charlie. They also face raging windstorms--one so violent that Thayer's supplies are lost and her face is cut by ice until her vision is impairedThe mirror of the sea
Par Joseph Conrad. 1906
Conrad, who went to sea at age seventeen and rose from apprentice seaman to master in the British merchant service,…
writes a paean to the sea. He describes, with the voice of a lover, the many moods of the ocean, the loading of cargo, the managing of crews and vessels, and the mysteries of the waters60 songs that explain the '90s
Par Rob Harvilla. 2023
A companion to the #1 music podcast on Spotify, this book takes readers through the greatest hits that define a…
weirdly undefinable decade. The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of genres and lifestyles and superstars, from grunge to hip-hop, from sumptuous R&B to rambunctious ska-punk, from Axl to Kurt to Missy to Santana to Tupac to Britney. In 60 SONGS THAT EXPLAIN THE '90s, Ringer music critic Rob Harvilla reimagines all the earwormy, iconic hits Gen Xers pine for with vivid historical storytelling, sharp critical analysis, rampant loopiness, and wryly personal ruminations on the most bizarre, joyous, and inescapable songs from a decade we both regret entirely and miss desperatelyDiscover the inspiring, unknown, against-all-odds story of how the classic animated holiday special A Charlie Brown Christmas almost never made…
it on to television. Professor and cultural historian Michael Keane reveals much in this nostalgia-inducing book packed with original research and interviews. Keane compellingly shows that the ultimate broadcast of the Christmas special—given its incredibly tight five-month production schedule and the decidedly unfavorable reception it received by the skeptical network executives who first screened it—was nothing short of a miracle. Keane explains why the show, despite its technical shortcomings, has become an uplifting and enduring triumph embraced by millions of families every Christmas season, even more than fifty years after its premiere. This gripping and joyful behind-the-scenes story of how the creators of A Charlie Brown Christmas struggled to bring the program to life will also help readers (and loyal fans) understand how America's favorite Christmas special changed our popular culture forever. Keane masterfully weaves the momentous events of 1965 (the turbulent year of the program's production) into his story, providing critical context for a profound new understanding of the program's famous climactic scene, Linus's spot-lit soliloquy answering the question repeatedly posed by Charlie Brown—"Isn't there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?"Jaguars ripped my flesh: adventure is a risky business
Par Tim Cahill. 1987
A series of essays "conceived in fun and meant to be read for pleasure" on the joys and frustrations of…
travel. The articles first appeared in "Outside," "Geo," and "Rolling Stone" magazinesBurton: a biography of Sir Richard Francis Burton
Par Byron Farwell. 1963
Burton was a notorious adventurer, as well as an archaeologist, diplomat, inventor, linguist, translator, soldier, traveler, and explorer. Farwell portrays…
him as a rare personality from his wild childhood and expulsion from Oxford, to his years in India, Africa, and the Middle East, and in his literary career and peculiar marriageGold & silver, silver & gold: tales of hidden treasure
Par Alvin Schwartz. 1988
Nanda Devi: the tragic expedition
Par John Roskelley. 1987
An emotional account of the tragic expedition organized by Nanda Devi Unsoeld to climb her namesake mountain, the third highest…
Himalayan peak. The author, a lead climber of the ill-fated 1976 ascent and a renowned mountaineer, relates the idealistic goals, dreams, and ambitions of the team members, tells how their inexperience led to disaster, and describes the complexities and day-to-day toil of high-altitude mountaineering