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The travel writing of celebrated writer George Fetherling is filled with vivid prose and bizarre characters.

Treacherous and remote, the Arctic and the fabled Northwest Passage have long been elusive goals for explorers. Gerard Kenney shares stories of exploration in the Arctic region.

Noted traveller and environmentalist Hap Wilson shares accounts of his lifelong involvement with wilderness living within the Canadian Shield.

A startling new portrait of Gould, including never-before-seen material.

Private investigator Dan Sharp finds himself caught up in a political murder.

Improbable, heart-wrenching, and uplifting, Jeremiah Brown’s journey from novice rower to Olympic silver medallist in under four years is a story about chasing a goal with everything you’ve got.

Growing up in the ?50s with a single mother and no father, Hope is a loner with a wonderful imagination.

Since the days of ancient Egypt, women have demonstrated their skills as leaders.

This can’t be good! Suddenly Suze’s mom wants back into her life, and her teacher wants her to “try harder”?!

In the summer of 1900 a meteorite lands on the day of Peg Staynor’s baptismal, barely missing the small church in rural Ontario.

Sixteen-year-old Peggy has gone north to plant trees for the summer. On a visit to a petroglyph site, she is abruptly transported to Notherland, an imaginary world she created when she was seven.

Elsie MacGill achieved many firsts in science and engineering at a time when women were considered to be inferior in the sciences.

It is 1937 Poland, and Miriam is devastated when her grandparents tell her that they can no longer survive as a family, and that the only solution is for David to go to an orphanage.

Gladys Sage escaped the backwoods of Northern Ontario, leaving behind the body of her stepfather, to arrive in New York and the world of political revolutionaries.