Search Results: Titles starting with S from Sorensen Books : Your Vancouver Island Bookshop

Condition: clean copy.Content: this is the story of the S. S. Beaver" which was the first, and from many years the only steamship to work on the west coast of North America. Built for the Hudson's Bay Company, she was launched in London in 1835, was intended to server as a floating fur-trade post. In 1874 the 'Beaver' was sold and worked as a towboat until in 1888 she was wrecked on the rocks of Prospect Point at the entrance to Vancouver Harbour.160 pages, footnotes, index, bibliography.

For 59 years the Moyie served the Kootenays carrying everything from silver ore and apples to mail and farm animals.Royalty and settlers, salesmen and prospectors, school children and doctors all travelled on the Moyie. By 1957, whe she was retired, she had outlasted all other passenger-carrying, steam-powered sternwheelers in Canada, the western US and Alaska. Illustrated, 60 pages.

Condition: clean copy.Content: 22 sermons applicable to the personal and social problems of everyday religious life, presented in a language that avoids traditional terms186 pages.

Condition: clean copy:Content: This book is a complete transcript of Capt. Theophilus Conneau's 1853 handwritten manuscript, including his own title and unabashed preface.370 pages, index.

Condition: clean copy.Content: Third in the Tsimshian Language Series, 'Teachings of our Grandfathers' a project of the First Nations Advisory Council of School District #52, Prince Rupert, BC. Bi-lingual edition, Tsimshian and English, parallel texts. 24 pages, illustrated.

Condition: clean copy.Content: 72 pages.

Condition: clean copy.Contents: This takes readers on a tour of many natural and man-made sacred sites located throughout western North America. Comprised of locations that feature particularly interesting and mysterious qualities, it emphasizes each locale's physical characteristics and magical significance. These centers are places of power and energy, often relating to indigenous people's history and myth.176 pages, colour and black and white photographs.

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Set against the backdrop of war, revolution and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantura, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, the author's colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I's art collection. Notes, Bibliography, Index, 436 pages.

Condition< clean copy, worn.Content: A history of the 38 canneries on the northern coast of British Columbia.180 pages, photography, line drawings, endnotes, bibliography, index.

Condition: clean copy.Content: This book chronicles the history of Salt Spring Island from the days of the Coast Salish through some 150 years of settlement by many diverse groups including Hawaiians, American blacks, and colonial English.344 pages, notes, selected bibliography, index, end paper maps.

Inscribed by the author. Wear And stain to top edge. Prev owner bookplate removed. Good reading copy. Number 23/500 copies. Photos on request

Translated from the Russian by Susan Brownsberger.

Light edge wear sound clean copy. Photos on request

Condition: clean copy.Content:In this work, the author describes a continent where individual Germans and collaborators were rounded up and summarily executed at the same time that violent anti-Semitism was reborn. This is the story of post WWII Europe, from the close of the war right to the establishment of an uneasy stability at the end of the 1940's. Based principally on primary sources from a dozen countries, it is the chronicle of a world gone mad.460 pages, sources, notes, index, photographs.

Condition: clean copy.Content: Michael Reily never expected to find himself raising a child. As a busy advertising executive and single gay man living in a conservative Southern town, Michael doesn't exactly have parenthood on his things-to-do list. So when he discovers he 's been named guardian of his infant nephew, Scot, he finds he's taken on the most challenging job of his life. But he's determined to do it his way with wit, resourcefulness and spontaneity. The moral outrage that his new position provokes galvanizes him to fight for custody, battling a closed-minded, conservative senator - who happens to be the child's grandfather - and a host of would-be moral arbiters in a courtroom showdown.328 pages.

Condition: clean copy.Content: 128 pages,

Most Canadians know little, if anything at all, about the role of the Canadian Air Force in the 1999 Kosovo Air War. Yet lives were at put at stake as mission dedication and military skill were pushed to the limit.
Some of Canada's most prominent journalists attempted to report on the war, but came away virtually empty handed. Daily briefings given at the National Defence Headquarters provided so little information most Ottawa journalists simply stopped going. The decision of the military to choke Canada's news media was deliberate and based on a tactical and strategic rationale.
Scattering Chaff explores the role of the Canadian Air Force in the bombing campaigns of the Kosovo Air War while examining the military's interference with the news media attempting to report to the Canadian public. It explores the ways in which the military has come to manage the media as an element of operational security, mission focus, and of popular opinion. Drawing on in-depth interviews with the war's Canadian… Read More

Condition: clean copy.Content: A collection of the photographer Scavullo nudes.112 pages.

Sound clean copy. Light edge wear. Photos on request