Biography & Autobiography, Adventurers & Explorers
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Lawyer on Wheels
by Michael Sterlin
Lawyer on Wheels is part travelogue, part adventure and part biography. Most of all, it is a book about bicycling, written by a man whose life has been inextricably linked with this pastime. The author has spent most of his life touring the...
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My Love Affair with Fear
How Fear Enabled Me to Become Who I Was Created to Be by Brad Kilb
Brad’s life has been tested - his body ravaged by disease; his life spared during death-defying adventures; his fear as he speaks to an audience of 1,100. As tough as these moments have been, he shares his insights into ‘dancing with fear’....
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Anvil
by Roger W. Harrington
In Canada’s North, the snow is relentless. And below the permafrost, the mines hold nearly as many secrets as they do veins of ore. It’s the 1960s, and John Vance has traveled from a teacher’s college in Toronto to an isolated Yukon gold-mining...
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Homesteading in the Last Best West
Based on JB Hansen's Personal Memoir by Elaine Melby Ayre
THE AUTHOR TOOK HER GRANDFATHER JB HANSEN’S memoir, written before his death in the mid sixties, and by augmenting it with a variety of interesting primary sources, and her own personal comments, she brings new life to the realities of...
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If I Had Only Known
My Unexpected Adventures in the BC Forest Industry by James Girvan
I often wonder if I would have made a different decision when that life-changing phone call came—if had I only known what lay ahead of me? At a time when the forest industry was on a bustling trajectory of development, and foresters were in hot...
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Following the Telegraph Trail
A Trek of a Lifetime by Irene J. Huntley
Following the Telegraph Trail is a true story of an outdoor Canadian adventure. In the 1950s, a man in his prime, who was seeing his family responsibilities pile up, created an opportunity to act on a boyhood dream - to trek with simple equipment...
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No Place to Pee
An Alaskan Woman's Tenure on the Klondike and the Pipeline by Margaret H Piggott
No Place to Pee is an intimate collection from a woman who spent 5,000 hours in a male-dominated industry. Margaret H. Piggott, a retired physical therapist worked as a laborer in Alaska on the Klondike Highway and Alaskan Pipeline from 1975 to...
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A Journey back to Europe
Crossing the Atlantic By Freighter and Exploring Europe in 1960 by Otto Schmalz
In 1960, Otto Schmalz and his wife, Gertrud, decided to take a four-month vacation to their native Europe, where they would tour parts of West Germany, Switzerland, Holland, and Italy, visiting family and friends, and seeing as much of the...
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Rattlesnakes, Airplanes and Gold
One family's wilderness journey in search of adventure and fortune by Douglas Lowell Jack
This book begins with the story of how one American family found their own way into being part of the national pre-occupation with Soviet aggression during the 1950s. They acquired their own bomb-shelter in the form of a 1500-foot long...
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Canoe for Change
A Journey Across Canada by Glenn Green and Carol VandenEngel
Imagine taking on the challenge of a cross-Canada canoe adventure: to live outdoors for months at a time, to embark on your destination knowing you have 8,515 kilometres ahead of you to paddle. Canoe for Change is the story of husband-and-wife...
