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The evolutionary origins of human storytelling. Analysing stories is territory traditionally claimed by writers, critics, and university scholars.

The evolutionary origins of human storytelling. Analysing stories is territory traditionally claimed by writers, critics, and university scholars.

The tragic battlefield loss that ended the dreams of a nation.

For more than 40 years, a retired British Army major-general made his home in St. John's, Newfoundland.

In 1880, two Inuit families from Labrador in northern Canada were exhibited in European zoos. Spectators flocked to the zoo exhibit expecting to see "exotics" from some "primitive race".

Four centuries ago... did people listen in a different way than we do now? How different were the sounds that they heard? And can we tune into their auditory world?

The multiple award-winning feature documenting the aftermath of the 20th century's greatest marine ecological disaster: the near-elimination of the largest fish biomass on the planet - the great No

In 1930's Newfoundland, times are desperate. People salvage cast-off food from St. John's harbour, the dole is 6 cents a day, and families are ripped apart in the struggle for survival.

On July 2, 1992 the once-gigantic Newfoundland cod fishery was shut down. Twelve years later, 70,000 people had left, and coastal communities were struggling to survive.

A tale of two Jacks: one Jack the hero of traditional folktales; the other a retired fisherman passing the time in his fishing stage spinning tales of his youth.

An investigation of Guglielmo Marconi and the first trans-Atlantic wireless transmission. Created for the centenary of Marconi's transmission.

When the North Atlantic cod fishery collapsed in the 1990's, it catapulted over 30,000 fishers out of work - the largest layoff in Canadian history.

The remarkable story of Lanier Phillips and the shipwreck that changed his life. On February 18, 1942 the US Navy destroyer Truxton was shipwrecked off Newfoundland.

Lac-Mégantic, le 6 juillet 2013.

Le présent ouvrage raconte comment la « rencontre des deux mondes » entre les nations autochtones et les empires européens a provoqué un immense choc des cultures.