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Getting three trucks and two horses stuck in the mud on "a good road" into BC's wild, remote interior was just the start of Bruce Watt's hilarious adventures—and it was his honeymoon, too.

Surveyor, cartographer, fur trader, adventurer, naturalist and entrepreneur, David Thompson is now recognized as one of the greatest explorers and geographers of all time.

Through his incredibly varied fifty-year career, John J. Healy left an indelible mark on the Canadian and American west.

These inspiring true stories illuminate the courage and wisdom of five 19th-century Native leaders and famous Métis who fought against impossible odds to preserve the culture and rights of their pe

Bankrupt, homeless and with only an old Toyota Tercel to her name, Barbara Stewart has taken a job as a camp attendant at Trinidad 11, an oil-rig camp in northwestern Alberta.

The years from the fall of New France in 1763 to the amalgamation of the Hudson’s Bay Company and North West Company in 1821 were marked by fierce competition in the fur trade.

High finance, wilderness adventures, violence, and questionable legal tactics all played important roles in the history of the North West Company.

An invisible wall ran down the center of the street, dividing the Jewish families from the Christians.

Growing up in Queens in the 1960s, Alyse Myers watched her mother settle for a joyless existence.

She created the soundtrack of our lives. Now, at last, she tells the stories behind the music.

In 2002 David MacLean woke up in India with no memory. Taken to a mental hospital, he began to hallucinate--a result of his malarial medication.

Ruth Graham is the third child of Billy and Ruth Bell Graham. In this book, Ruth provides a rare look at the twentieth century's most influential evangelist.

In the most personal book of his career, Jonathan Kozol tells the story of his father's life and work as a noted specialist in brain disorders and his ability to narrate his descent into

Thomas De Quincey--opium eater, celebrity journalist, and professional doppelgänger--is embedded in our culture.

December, 1941: Manila is invaded, and Pappy Gunn is ordered to fly key military command out of the country, leaving his family at home.