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Condition: clean copy.Content: A collection fo archival photographs documenting early exploration , transportation, and settlement. This book examines mountain photography from a unique perspective. Early photographers in Canada's westerns ranges faced almost overwhelming odds in their quest for images, and yet managed to create an immense body of remarkable work.184 pages, and album of black and white photographs

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'This unique study offers fresh insight into the many reasons peopledecide to walk the trail....' sound clean copy. Illustrated with photos in centre.

This is the most comprehensive volume of Whitman ever published; it includes all of his poetry and what he consider his complete prose. This is also the only collection that includes, in exactly the form in which it appeared in 1855, the first edition of 'Leaves of Grass.'1380 pages.

A collection of eight humorous short stories.

Herman Work's sweeping epic of WW2, which begins with 'The Winds of War' and continue in 'War and Remembrance' stands as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers. Like no other books about the war, Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events' and all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of WW2 - as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very centre of the war's maelstrom .

In the remote Brazilian backlands was Canudos - home to all the damned of the earth, to prostitutes, freaks, bandits, beggars, and the most wretched of the poor. And it was a paradise, a Utopian state led by an apocalyptic prophet, a place without hunger, money, property, taxes, or marriage. And so in 1997, the Brazilian government decreed it must be destroyed.

Condition: clean copy.Content: In the remote Brazilian backlands was Caudos - home to all the damned of the earth, to prostitutes, freaks, bandits, beggars, and the most wretched of the poor. And it was paradise, a Utopian state led by an apocalyptic prophet, a place without hunger, money, property, taxes, or marriage, And so in 1897, the Brazilian government decreed it must be destroyed.568 pages.

Deep within the remote backlands of 19th century Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast. Itis a place where history and civilization have been wiped away. There is no money, no taxation, no marriage, no census. Canudos is a cauldron for the revolutionary spirit in its purest form, a state with all the potential for a true, libertarian paradise - and one the Brzailian government is determined to crush at any cost.

Content: non-fiction, military history. In June 1942, Japanese troops occupied the Aleutian islands of Attu and Kiska in Alaska, the first enemy occupation of US territory since the War of 1812. For the next year a bloody conflict raged that was nearly invisible to most North Americans as Canadian and American soldiers, airmen, and sailors went north to hold the Japanese in check.240 pages, bibliography, index, photographs.

A local history of the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, BC. 112 pages.

Condition: clean copy.Content:!**#> Thaniel Steepleton returns home to his tiny London apartment to find a gold pocket on his pillow. Six months later, the mysterious timepiece saves his life, drawing him away from a blast that destroys Scotland Yard. At last he goes in search of its maker, Keita Mori, a kind, lonely immigrant from Japan. Although Mori seems harless, a chain of unexplainable events soon suggests he must he hiding something. Whe Grace Carrow, an Oxford Physicist, unwittingly interferes, Thaniel is torn between opposing loyalties.328 pages.

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Condition: clean copy, previous owner's name on first page, upper right corner.Content: This contains a series of essays on water, as the author draws from his broad knowledge as an agriculturalist and his vast life experience to tell us 'what every Canadian should know about water.' Introducting by Hugh Dempsey, 192 pages, photographs.

Condition: clean copy.Content: This book explores how indigenous canadians' spirituality is finding its way into prisons and the role it is playing with indigenous inmates seeking to regain and to promote their heritages and identities..234 pages, references, index.

From Haiti under Papa Doc, Vietnam in the last days of the French, Kenya during the MauMau, and Hollywook, to the making of The Third Man in Vienna and his time in the British Secret Service, Graham Greene writes exquisitely of people and places, of faith, doube, fear and of the craft of writing, as he found himself repeatedly at 'the dangerous edge of things.'

No one really knew Tristan Jones. He lived 66 years and managed to keep the first 40 a mystery. He told us what he wanted us to believe, and he told the tales so well tht we wither believed or suspended disbelief. He was another Jack London, and escaping into his briny books will always remain a singular pleasure. Yet event Tristan's most skeptical readers will marvel at the breath of his deceits. As revealed in this uncompromising yet admiring biography, the real Tristan Jones was both a lesser and a greater man then his invention. He rejected the hand fate dealt him and dealt himself another. Enormously creative, he was himself, his most creative. Notes, Selected bibliography, Index, 350 pages.