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  • Hap Wilson's Wilderness 3-Book Bundle The Cabin / Grey Owl and Me / Trails and Tribulations
    Author:

    Wilson, Hap

    Summary:

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

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Canadian nonfiction, Travel writing

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  • The Cabin A Search for Personal Sanctuary
    Author:

    Wilson, Hap

    Summary:

    One hundred years ago, a young doctor from Cleveland by the name of Robert Newcomb, travelled north to a place called Temagami. It was as far north as one could travel by any modern means.

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Travel writing

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  • Trails and Tribulations Confessions of a Wilderness Pathfinder
    Author:

    Wilson, Hap

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    Wilson, Hap

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    Zschogner, Ingrid

    Summary:

    In an age when "survival" shows permeate the media, noted northern traveller Hap Wilson shares accounts of his lifelong involvement with wilderness living within the Canadian Shield.

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Travel writing

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  • Grey Owl and Me Stories From the Trail and Beyond
    Author:

    Wilson, Hap

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    Wilson, Hap

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    Zschogner, Ingrid

    Summary:

    Hap Wilson is back for another journey, this time on the lighter side of the adventure trail, where the bizarre melds with the sublime.

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Canadian nonfiction, Travel writing

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  • Longshot
    Author:

    FRANCIS, Dick

    Summary:

    John Kendall agrees to write the biography of a National Hunt racehorse trainer.

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    • Login to access DAISY 202 - Full Text and Audio
      Narrator: Narrator: Maureen Taylor
  • Whip hand
    Author:

    FRANCIS, Dick

    Summary:

    An entertaining story combining horse racing, detection, suspense and a sensitive study of human relationships.

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    • Login to access DAISY 202 - Full Text and Audio
      Narrator: Narrator: Leon Waller
  • Wild horses
    Author:

    FRANCIS, Dick

    Summary:

    Thriller set in the world of horse racing, Thomas Lyon, a film director, finds himself caught in a moral dilemma when a close friend confesses to him on his deathbed, mistaking Thomas for a priest.

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    • Login to access DAISY 202 - Full Text and Audio
      Narrator: Narrator: Gil Clark
  • Second wind
    Author:

    FRANCIS, Dick

    Summary:

    Perry Stuart, TV meteorologist lives a calm and ordered life. That is, until a fellow forecaster offers him a Caribbean hurricane-chasing ride in a small aeroplane as a holiday diversion.

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    • Login to access DAISY 202 - Full Text and Audio
      Narrator: Narrator: Tony Saunders
  • Shattered
    Author:

    FRANCIS, Dick

    Summary:

    When jockey Martin Stukely dies following a fall at Cheltenham races, he accidentally embroils Gerard Logan in a perilous search for a stolen video tape.

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    • Login to access DAISY 202 - Full Text and Audio
      Narrator: Narrator: Tony Saunders
  • The sport of queens
    Author:

    FRANCIS, Dick

    Summary:

    Autobiography of one time Queen Mother's steeplechase jockey, now a well known thriller writer.

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    • Login to access DAISY 202 - Full Text and Audio
      Narrator: Narrator: Joyce Foreman
  • Straight
    Author:

    FRANCIS, Dick

    Summary:

    Another thriller set in the world of horse racing by this best-selling author.

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    • Login to access DAISY 202 - Full Text and Audio
      Narrator: Narrator: David Thatcher
  • To the hilt
    Author:

    FRANCIS, Dick

    Summary:

    Living in his remote Scottish eyrie Alexander Kinloch is used to seeing hikers. But unlike his usual visitors, they are not asking for a cup of tea or directions.

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    • Login to access DAISY 202 - Full Text and Audio
      Narrator: Narrator: Elwyn Edwards
  • Bolt
    Author:

    FRANCIS, Dick

    Summary:

    Kit Fielding's patron, Princess Casilia, is in trouble.

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    • Login to access DAISY 202 - Full Text and Audio
      Narrator: Narrator: Tony Britton
  • Break in
    Author:

    FRANCIS, Dick

    Summary:

    About family relationships and about the use and abuse of power as champion jockey Kit Fielding seeks to defend his sister and her husband (a race horse trainer) from a spiteful newspaper campaign.

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    • Login to access DAISY 202 - Full Text and Audio
      Narrator: Narrator: Richard King
  • Come to grief
    Author:

    FRANCIS, Dick

    Summary:

    Ex-champion jockey turned investigator, Sid Halley, first seen in Odds Against and Whip Hand, uncovers an obnoxious crime committed by a friend.

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    • Login to access DAISY 202 - Full Text and Audio
      Narrator: Narrator: Harry Fenwick

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