Book Description
This anthology is an entry point into the beginnings of a literate response to the awe and wonder inspired by an unfolding geography.
Author : Germaine Warkentin
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 28,29 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1550026615
This anthology is an entry point into the beginnings of a literate response to the awe and wonder inspired by an unfolding geography.
Author : Ann-Maureen Owens
Publisher : Kids Can Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,12 MB
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781554532575
From Native peoples in search of new hunting grounds to European fishermen out for bigger catches, explorers were drawn to Canada for many reasons. They discovered a vast and mysterious land that took hundreds of years to explore and map. But the story of Canadian exploration is about a lot more than mapping wilderness. With no new lands left to discover, present-day explorers focus on outer space, the ocean and the preservation of Earth's changing ecosystems.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 33,26 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Adventure and adventurers
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Author : Irene M. Spry
Publisher : Western Canadian Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,64 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9781895618525
The Palliser Expedition is one of the great works in Canadian exploration literature and the only full-scale account of the British North America Exploring Expedition. This lively narrative tells of the famous adventures of John Palliser, one of the first to explore and document vast areas of what is now western Canada. Palliser and his colleagues accumulated a wealth of new scientific and geological knowledge, providing some of the first detailed information about the plants, animals, soil, rocks, and climate of the land they had traversed. They discovered formerly unknown passes through the Rocky Mountains, and determined that much of this immense country was suitable for settlement. Spry describes what was known about the prairies in the late 1850s and why the British government accepted Palliser's proposal to dispatch a team to the area between Lake Superior and the Pacific Coast. She explains what the expedition learned during its three years, offering at the same time an intimate understanding of these men and their perspective on the region. Much more than the story of a scientific survey, The Palliser Expedition provides a revealing look at the western interior in the last years of the Old Northwest before it became home to countless thousands of homesteaders.
Author : Hugh Garner
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 1392 pages
File Size : 44,17 MB
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 145972903X
Voyageur Classics is a series of special versions of Canadian classics, with added material and new introductions. In this bundle we find five classic works of twentieth century fiction, drama and poetry, a period when Canada’s literary identity was shaped. Originally published in 1962, The Silence on the Shore is considered by many critics to be renowned Hugh Garner’s best, most ambitious novel. Originally published in 1967, Combat Journal for Place d’Armes was initially met with shock and anger by most reviewers but has become a literary touchstone. The Donnellys tells the tale of a secret society and a massacre that shocked the Canadian public, a story overlooked by the artistic community until Reaney’s 1975 play elevated the events to the level of legend. In This Poem I Am presents the best of poet Robin Skelton’s adventurous poetry. And Exploration Literature is a groundbreaking collection of early writing inspired by the opening of a continent, an entry point into the beginnings of a literate response to the awe and wonder inspired by an unfolding geography. Includes Canadian Exploration Literature Combat Journal for Place d’Armes The Donnellys In This Poem I Am The Silence on the Shore
Author : Tim Fulford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 11,64 MB
Release : 2004-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521829199
Examines the massive impact of colonial exploration on British scientific and literary activity between the 1760s and 1830s.
Author : Hugh Edward Millington Stutfield
Publisher :
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 36,25 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Alberta
ISBN :
Author : Stuart E. Jenness
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 44,11 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1772824186
The first comprehensive account of one of the great sagas of Arctic exploration and discovery, the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913–1918, led by the ethnologist/explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson and the zoologist Dr. Rudolph M. Anderson. There are details of the Expedition’s successes and tragedies, including the discovery of all but one large island north of the Canadian mainland, the accumulation of considerable scientific information and valuable collections, and the personal feud of the Expedition’s two leaders. Four appendices list Expedition personnel, fifty-three geographical sites in the Arctic named after them, locations of their diaries and collected specimens, and the thirteen government volumes arising from the Expedition.
Author : Paul Collins
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 29,26 MB
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Eva-Marie Kröller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 23,3 MB
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107159628
A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.