The Barren Ground of Northern Canada
Author : Warburton Pike
Publisher : London ; New York : Macmillan
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 17,91 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Mackenzie (N.W.T.)
ISBN :
The Barren Ground of Northern Canada
Author : Warburton Mayer Pike
Publisher : London ; New York : Macmillan and Company
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 20,60 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN :
Book Description
The Barren Grounds
Author : David A. Robertson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0735266115
Book Description
Narnia meets traditional Indigenous stories of the sky and constellations in an epic middle grade fantasy series from award-winning author David Robertson. Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each other, and struggle to fit in at school and at their new home -- until they find a secret place, walled off in an unfinished attic bedroom. A portal opens to another reality, Askí, bringing them onto frozen, barren grounds, where they meet Ochek (Fisher). The only hunter supporting his starving community, Misewa, Ochek welcomes the human children, teaching them traditional ways to survive. But as the need for food becomes desperate, they embark on a dangerous mission. Accompanied by Arik, a sassy Squirrel they catch stealing from the trapline, they try to save Misewa before the icy grip of winter freezes everything -- including them.
Barren Lands
Author : Kevin Krajick
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 22,10 MB
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 150402916X
Book Description
First published in 2001, Barren Lands is the classic true story of the men who sought—and found—a great diamond mine on the last frontier of the far north. From a bloody 18th-century trek across the Canadian tundra to the daunting natural forces facing protagonists Chuck Fipke and Stewart Blusson as they struggle against the mighty DeBeers cartel, this is the definitive account of one of the world’s great mineral discoveries. Combining geology, science history, raw nature, and high intrigue, it is also a tale of supreme adventure, taking the reader into a magical—and now fast-vanishing—wild landscape. Now in a newly revised and updated edition.
Lost in the Barrens
Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 18,7 MB
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1551991853
Book Description
Awasin, a Cree Indian boy, and Jamie, a Canadian orphan living with his uncle, the trapper Angus Macnair, are enchanted by the magic of the great Arctic wastes. They set out on an adventure that proves longer and more dangerous than they could have imagined. Drawing on his knowledge of the ways of the wilderness and the implacable northern elements, Farley Mowat has created a memorable tale of daring and adventure. When first published in 1956, Lost in the Barrens won the Governor-General’s Award for Juvenile Literature, the Book-of-the-Year Medal of the Canadian Association of Children’s Librarians and the Boys’ Club of America Junior Book Award.
Death in the Barren Ground
Author : Edgar Christian
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,37 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Book Description
A new edition of the diary of Edgar Christian with introduction and editing by George Whalley. Author's personal account of journey with John Hornby and Harold Adlard to winter in the Thelon Game Sanctuary and to explore a new route from Great Slave Lake to Chesterfield Inlet.
The Twenty-Ninth Day
Author : Alex Messenger
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : pages
File Size : 50,15 MB
Release : 2021-11-30
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
A six-hundred-mile canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness is a seventeen-year-old's dream adventure, but after he is mauled by a grizzly bear, it's all about staying alive. This true-life wilderness survival epic recounts seventeen-year-old Alex Messenger's near-lethal encounter with a grizzly bear during a canoe trip in the Canadian tundra. The story follows Alex and his five companions as they paddle north through harrowing rapids and stunning terrain. Twenty-nine days into the trip, while out hiking alone, Alex is attacked by a barren-ground grizzly. Left for dead, he wakes to find that his summer adventure has become a struggle to stay alive. Over the next hours and days, Alex and his companions tend his wounds and use their resilience, ingenuity, and dogged perseverance to reach help at a remote village a thousand miles north of the US-Canadian border. The Twenty-Ninth Day is a coming-of-age story like no other, filled with inspiring subarctic landscapes, thrilling riverine paddling, and a trial by fire of the human spirit.
Walking on the Land
Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : South Royalton, Vt. : Steerforth Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 26,2 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
Walking on the Land brings Mowat's writing full circle, and will stand as a testament to his lifelong passions and unparalleled career."--BOOK JACKET.
Those Barren Leaves
Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Aegitas
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 12,87 MB
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0369406729
Book Description
Those Barren Leaves is a satirical novel by Aldous Huxley, published in 1925. The title is derived from the poem 'The Tables Turned' by William Wordsworth which ends with the words: Enough of Science and of Art; Close up those barren leaves; Come forth, and bring with you a heart That watches and receives. Stripping the pretensions of those who claim a spot among the cultural elite, it is the story of Mrs. Aldwinkle and her entourage, who are gathered in an Italian palace to relive the glories of the Renaissance. For all their supposed sophistication, they are nothing but sad and superficial individuals in the final analysis.
The Great Bear
Author : David A. Robertson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 32,64 MB
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 073526614X
Book Description
In this second book in the Narnia-inspired Indigenous middle-grade fantasy series, Eli and Morgan journey once more to Misewa, travelling back in time. Back at home after their first adventure in the Barren Grounds, Eli and Morgan each struggle with personal issues: Eli is being bullied at school, and tries to hide it from Morgan, while Morgan has to make an important decision about her birth mother. They turn to the place where they know they can learn the most, and make the journey to Misewa to visit their animal friends. This time they travel back in time and meet a young fisher that might just be their lost friend. But they discover that the village is once again in peril, and they must dig deep within themselves to find the strength to protect their beloved friends. Can they carry this strength back home to face their own challenges?
