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This book is an account of a highly-talented man: speaker of several languages and Indian dialects; mathematician, meteorologist, and cartographer; classical scholar and student of history and literature; musician and artist; hunter and outdoorsman; courageous judge. Notes; Chronology; Governors, Premiers, and Judiciary; Bibliography; Index; 334 pages.

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Condition: clean copy. Content: This biography of Alfred Russel Wallace traces the development of one of the most remarkable scientific travelers, naturalists, and thinks of the 19th century. The author reveals his subject as a courageous, unconventional explorer and a man of exceptional humanity. He draws extensively on Wallace's correspondence and offers a revealing yet balanced account between the relationship between Wallace and Darwin.340 pages, notes, sources and select bibliography, index.

Condition: clean copy.Content: this novel explores not just he fate of the printed word, but also the fates of those who have devoted their lives to it.288 pages.

Condition: clean copy.Content: In this memoir, the author recounts many hilarious anecdotes from his career in the woods buint the 1970's, 80's, and 90's, when he and his slashburing crews rampaged throughout southeastern BC armed with drip torches, chainsaws and explosives. They lit fires. They put some of them out. They survived rocks likes, animal encounters and flare fights.228 pages

Condition: clean copy.Content: The story of the Hudson's Bay Company and its larger-than-live governor, Sir George Simpson, is i9nestricably linked to the formation of a Canadian nation stretching from sea to sea. At its height in the 19th century, the HBC trading territory covered three million square miles and spanned the continent. An no ope persson was more responsible for it success than Simpson, the illegitimate son of a ne'er-do-well Scottish lawyer.484 pages, notes, bibliography, index.

Together in one volume, Emerson's Nature and Thoreau's Walking, writing that defines our distinctly American relationship to nature. Introduction by John Elder.

In 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming, RVNR had a brilliant: why not set up a unit of troops to steal enemy intelligence? Know as 30 Assault Unit, they took part in the ladings in North Africa, Sicily and Normandy and helped liberate Paris - but their real aim was to gather information, from coded messages to bits of the Enigma machine to military strategy. Source Notes, Inex, 398 pages.

The volume is divided into five parts: Point of Origin; A Quest for Honor; A Quest for Nobility; A Quest for Enlightenment' Destination; 262 pages.

Condition:clean copy.Content: 18 papers presented at the international conference held in June 2009 at the Universität Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona dealing with Japanese intellectual history and the Kyoto School of philosophy.378 pages, list of contributors, index of personal names.

In 1066, a 'jumped-up little Norman and his bunch of psychopaths' cross the water and alter the course of English history. Three years later and Walt, King Harold's only surviving bodyguard, is still emotionally and physically scarred by the loss of his king and country. Wandering through Asia Minor, headed vaguely for the Holy Land,, he tells his extraordinary story.

The author will steer you through dozens of spiritual and magickal practices that are grounded in the Divine. Want to know how high a Witch can fly? She will tell you. She practices the Craft daily, and she has tested every one of the many spells, exercises, rituals, and how-to's in this book to help you plug into the positive energy of the universe. 5 Appendices, Bibliography, Index, 300 pages.

The samurai radicals who overthrew the last shogun in 1868 promised to restore ancient and pure Japanese ways. Foreign observers were terrified that Japan would lapse into violent xenophobia. But the new Meiji government took an opposite course. It copied best practices from around the world, building a powerful and modern Japanese nation with the help of European and American advisors. While revering the Japanese past, the Meiji government boldly embraced the foreign and the new. What explains this paradox? How could Japan's 1868 revolution be both modern and traditional, both xenophobic and cosmopolitan?To Stand with the Nations of the World explains the paradox of the Restoration through the forces of globalization. The Meiji Restoration was part of the global "long nineteenth century" during which ambitious nation states like Japan, Britain, Germany, and the United States challenged the world's great multi-ethnic empires--Ottoman, Qing, Romanov, and Hapsburg. Japan's leaders wanted to celebrate… Read more

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