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| 21. Sea Otter Chiefs by Michael P. Robinson | |
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(price subject to change: see help) Asin: 1896209181 Catlog: Book (1998-06-25) Publisher: Bayeux Arts,Inc. Sales Rank: 2400760 US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan |
| 22. Trucking: A History of Trucking in Bc Since 1900 by Andy Craig, Tra00105, ANDY A. CRAIG | |
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(price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0919654886 Catlog: Book (1977-01-01) Publisher: Hancock House Pub Ltd Sales Rank: 1282691 US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan |
| 23. On the Trail of Robert Service (On the Trail of) by G. W. Lockhart | |
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| 24. Looking Through My Mother's Eyes: Life Stories of Nine Italian Immigrant Women by Giovanna Del Negro, Giovanna Del Negro | |
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| 25. A Soldier's Diary by Donald S. Macpherson, Donald, S. Macpherson | |
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| 26. Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush by Lael Morgan | |
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I found out more information about the men of the Kondike and their wenching habits, than the actual women themselves. In this case, my wonderfully guided tour gave me more information about how the women actually conducted their business (lots of interesting info about their personal hygene that are no where to be found in this book. what kind of book on prostitution doesn't talk about birth control methods and their ways of preventing VD? VD is barely brought up). If I wanted to read about the men of the Klondike, I could pick up any random book in the Klondike History section of any bookstore. The women are often the ones forgotten about, and deserve better treatement in the annuls of history, most especially in a book supposedly about those women. If you want some good information on this type of history, go up to Alaska and take any one of the amazing Red Light District tours. Don't waste your money on this book.
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| 27. A Dog Puncher on the Yukon (Wolf Creek Classics) by Arthur T. Walden | |
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| 28. Widow Smith of Spence's Bridge by Jessie Ann Smith, J. Meryl Campbell, Audrey Ward | |
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our price: $11.01 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0929069005 Catlog: Book (1998-07-01) Publisher: Industrial Computer Source Sales Rank: 2692760 US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan |
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Book Description Her story, a love story with an historical twist, begins with her childhood in Scotland and follows her by ship across the Atlantic and by rail across the U.S.A. to the west coast of British Columbia. Her introduction to Canada includes a work train trip through the Fraser Canyon on the then under construction Canadian Pacific Railway. The young couple initially settled at Spence's Bridge where John Smith worked for orchardist, John Murray. However, after an attempt at her husband's life, they left "The Bridge" for a harsh decade of homesteading in an upland valley south of Merritt. In 1897, after the death of John Smith's former employer, the family returned to purchase and rebuild the ailing Spence's Bridge orchard. John Smith died in 1905, partly as the result of an earlier Granite Creek mining accident. Jessie Ann Smith and her children continued working the Spence's Bridge orchard. For nearly a decade their Grimes Golden apples won top honors in shows in Canada, the U.S.A. and England. King Edward VII sought the apples of the "Widow Smith of Spence's Bridge" at a London Horticultural Show in 1909. The King? Ay, ay - no less than he, With the aid of three of her granddaughters, Jessie Ann Smith began writing her life story in the mid-1930s. Half a century later, Murphy Shewchuk was approached by granddaughter Audrey Ward to help complete the book and it was first published in 1989. It has now been reprinted twice. The latest reprint, in July, 1998, includes corrections on an addendum on the inside back cover. | |
| 29. Into and Out of Dislocation by C. S. Giscombe | |
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Book Description It was on his third or fourth trip there that the poet C. S. Giscombe grew aware of the space Canada had staked out in his imagination. Giscombe later spent a winter with his family in British Columbia, and his time there provides a lens through which he interrogates his preoccupation with Canada's otherness. Giscombe writes that "border crossings are always sexy. And racial." And so this book is filled with both actual and metaphoric exploration-his travels serve as points of departure for a series of riffs on racial, national, physical, and psychological borders. At the heart of this book is the author's ambivalent pursuit of John Robert Giscome, a man who may or may not be a relative. John R., as Giscombe calls him, was a black Jamaican explorer who flourished in British Columbia during the last half of the nineteenth century. Giscombe documents the places that John R. passed through, and he uncovers stories about mining, pioneer life, and even cannibalism. Giscombe likes to imagine John R. as a "self-aware outsider," and that symbolic status comes to seem more important-and more interesting-than any historical truth. Into and Out of Dislocation is an intriguing and wryly told travel memoir by a writer Henry Louis Gates called a "major figure in contemporary African American letters." Reviews (1)
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| 30. Faith of Fools: A Journal of the Klondike Gold Rush by William Shape | |
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| 31. K.D. Lang: All You Get Is Me by Victoria Starr | |
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(price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0312109288 Catlog: Book (1994-04-01) Publisher: St Martins Pr Sales Rank: 1153914 US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan |
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| 32. Ralph Edwards of Lonesome Lake by John Edwards, Stan Edwards, Ralph A. Edwards | |
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(price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0888391005 Catlog: Book (1981-01-01) Publisher: Hancock House Publishing Sales Rank: 909770 Average Customer Review: US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan |
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| 33. Lighthouse Chronicles: Twenty Years on the B.C. Lights by Flo Anderson | |
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| 34. The Winter Years: The Depression of the Prairies (Western Canadian Classics) by James H. Gray | |
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| 35. Country Doctor: A Memoir by Ben Dlin | |
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And it's not just people that Ben Dlin took care of but also animals with all kinds of different ailments from broken legs to pregnancy. The life of this country doctor and his warm, sometimes humorous, and always sincere relationship with his family, friends, co-workers, and patients provides a wonderful depiction of a rural country doctor's practice and the challenges he must meet on a day-to-day basis.
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| 36. Klee Wyck by Emily Carr, Kathryn Bridge, Ira Dilworth | |
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| 37. The Torso Murder: The Untold Story of Evelyn Dick by Brian Vallee | |
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Book Description The "torso" murder trial of young attractive Evelyn Dick grabbed headlines in 1946 and 1947. Her husband John's head and limbs had been sawed from his body and burned up in her furnace. After she was sentenced to hang, up-and-coming lawyer J.J. Robinette appealed her case, won her a new trial and then an acquittal. But, when police found the decayed remains of Evelyn's newborn baby encased in cement in a suitcase in her attic, the best Robinette could do for her was a manslaughter conviction and eleven years in prison. Evelyn Dick was released with a new identity in 1958. Since then, rumors, stories and sightings have abounded. Where did she go and what happened to her? Writer producer Brian Vallée, after crisscrossing the country, conducting several dozen interviews and tirelessly researching old newspaper files and thousands of pages of transcripts and police reports, answers many of the questions that surround this mysterious case. The result is a lively, spine-tingling account of the case itself and Evelyn Dick's surprising new life. With much of the material never before published, The Torso Murder is a captivating, chilling true story. Reviews (1)
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| 38. R. M. Patterson : A Life of Great Adventure by David Finch | |
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Book Description A spirited adventure-seeker, R. M. Patterson left the comforts of British society for untold adventures in Canada. The first person to photograph the falls of the Nahanni, Patterson introduced the world to this now famous river in his book, The Dangerous River. Authoring a total of five books about his forays into the Canadian wilderness and his life on a southern Alberta ranch, Patterson earned himself legions of fans and made Canadas wilderness famous. A skillful historian and storyteller, David Finch combines careful research, charming wit and his passion for the outdoors in this entertaining narrative. Reviews (1)
Patterson was more than a river rat. He worked as a logger, a trapper, a prospector, before he began to explore the rivers of the region. He ran a sheep operation near Banff, a dude ranch in the footthills of the Rockies, an orchard on Vancouver Island. All five of Patterson's frequently-autobiographical books remain in print decades after they first appeared. In his exhaustive studies Finch dug into several archives, interviewed dozens of family members and friends, followed the rivers that Patterson explored, and hiked or rode horseback over Patterson's favorite trails. In this biography, Finch shares with his readers the essence of Patterson that he gleaned during a decade of research and writing. In this reader's mind, he brought Patterson back to life as well as any writer could. (I met Patterson in his latter years, corresponded with him, and interviewed him. Like Finch, I read all of his books, interviewed Patterson himself, his widow, only daughter, and older son. I had planned to write the biography myself, but Finch beat me to it. He did a fine job. --Verne Huser) ... Read more | |
| 39. Shania Twain by Michael McCall | |
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if you're gonna write a biography, you should interview the person for the book (or research a little, and not writing it on rumors). over all, i guess it was an ok book
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| 40. Seal Wars: Twenty-Five Years on the Front Lines With the Harp Seals by Paul Watson | |
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Book Description Seal Wars opens in 1996 with Paul Watson -- holed up in a hotel with Martin Sheen in the Magdalen Islands and facing an attacking mob of angry sealers -- being rescued by police and airlifted to safety. Watson recounts the childhood experiences that shaped his adult consciousness and environmental ethic. He records a history of the seal hunt (including all the tragedies, brutalities, and government mismanagement and obfuscation) from its beginning up to the rescue campaigns he courageously led from the prow of the Sea Shepherd. Starting in 1976 with a Greenpeace crew off Labrador, Paul Watson has braved numerous forays onto the ice floes, many with such celebrities as Brigitte Bardot, Farley Mowat, Martin Sheen, and Pierce Brosnan. He has served time in prison, debated politicians, and quite often put his life on the line. In a passionate defense of environmental responsibility, Seal Wars guides us through the highs and lows, the defeats and successes of Watson's untiring devotion to this noble cause. | |
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