Biography & Autobiography, Aviation & Nautical
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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 ...
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Never a Dull Moment
A Memoir of Canadian Naval Aviation, Firebombing and Theatre by George E. Plawski
George Plawski was born in Gdynia, Poland, in 1934. His father, Eugene, was a senior naval officer who fought in both World Wars in the capacities of pilot, and as the commander of surface ships as well as submarines. Before the war, he lived with ...
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Dreamers Refuse to Be Victims
Per Ardua ad Astra (From Adversity to the Stars by Milan “Lou” Voticky
Upheaval. Flight. Terror. Insecurity. Milan Voticky and his family faced all of this when the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939 forced them to escape to Shanghai. Liberated from the Shanghai ghetto in 1945, the Voticky family made their way ...
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