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  • David Thompson: A Life of Adventure and Discovery

    A Life of Adventure and Discovery

    by Elle Andra-Warner ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    Surveyor, cartographer, fur trader, adventurer, naturalist and entrepreneur, David Thompson is now recognized as one of the greatest explorers and geographers of all time. By 1812, he had surveyed almost four million square kilometres of the North American wilderness and become the first European to navigate the entire length of the Columbia River. This compelling biography draws from Thompson's ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Hudson's Bay Company Adventures: Tales of Canada's Fur Traders

    Tales of Canada's Fur Traders

    by Elle Andra-Warner ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    The early history of the Hudson's Bay Company comes alive in these true tales of fur-trade wars, incredible wilderness journeys, hardships and danger. Founded by the extraordinary adventurers and renegades Radisson and des Groseilliers, the HBC attracted many memorable characters. Explorer Henry Kelsey was the first European to see the buffalo herds. James Knight met a mysterious fate on a frozen ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Robert Service

    The True Adventures of Yukon’s Favourite Bard

    by Elle Andra-Warner ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    "Andra-Warner has given us a great read with this slim biography. Her story-telling skills excel at distilling historical facts into compelling narrative."—Thunder Bay Chronicle-ReviewA quick-paced and engaging biography of Canada's favourite northern poet, Robert Service.Born in England in 1874 to Scottish parents, Robert William Service was raised to live the practical life of a banker. Although ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • James Macleod

    The Red Coats' First True Leader

    by Elle Andra-Warner ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    A vivid account of the life and times of the larger-than-life Canadian hero who played a major role in the peaceful development of western Canada.A descendant of warriors, chiefs, and military men of the Clan MacLeod, James A.F. Macleod led an adventurous life that took him from his birthplace on Scotland's Isle of Skye to the Canadian west. After immigrating to Ontario, Macleod became a lawyer ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

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  • The Luck of the Karluk

    Shipwrecked in the Arctic

    by L.D. Cross ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    When the members of Canada’s First Arctic Expedition set out from Victoria aboard HMCS Karluk in the summer of 1913, it was a moment of great optimism. The three-year mission would chart unexplored landmasses of the Western Arctic and secure Canada’s place in the international geographic community. Little did the team of distinguished scholars and scientists realize, however, how their hopes would ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Call of the Wilderness

    A Trapper’S Tale

    by Dave Vander Meer ...
    Dave Vander Meer was just eighteen years old when he set out on his own to explore the northern wilderness of Ontario. Winter would start in just a week, and there was a camp to build, traps to set, and food and furs to collect. To survive, he needed to call upon all his knowledge because the closest point of civilization was more than twenty miles away. Now, years later, he still looks back upon ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Bear Child: The Life and Times of Jerry Potts

    The Life and Times of Jerry Potts

    by Rodger D. Touchie ...
    The West was a lawless domain when Jerry Potts was born into the Upper Missouri fur trade in 1838. The son of a Scottish father and a Blood mother, he was given the name Bear Child by his Blood tribe for his bravery and tenacity while he was still a teen. In 1874, when the North West Mounted Police first marched west and sat lost and starving near the Canada-U.S. border, it was Potts who led them ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Jim Bridger - Greatest of the Mountain Men

    by Shannon Garst ...
    This classic book is the biography of Jim Bridger, and would be an excellent addition to the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in American history. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Denny's Trek: A Mountie's Memoir of the March West

    A Mountie's Memoir of the March West

    by Cecil E. Denny ...
    Like many other pioneering North West Mounted Police officers, Cecil Denny was a colourful, independent man with a career full of conquests and controversy. He and his comrades played key roles in the taming of Canada's wild and woolly west, and in this compilation of selected writings from his books The Law Marches West and The Riders of the Plains, we get that story straight from the horse's ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Four Degrees Celsius

    A Story of Arctic Peril

    by Kerry Karram ...
    This true story began in August 1929. A group of eight prospectors, led by C.D.H. MacAlpine of the Dominion Explorers, flew into the Arctic in search of mineral wealth. Grossly underequipped, the expedition ran out of fuel and was stranded above the Arctic Circle. Within days, Western Canada Airways sent a rescue team headed by Captain Andy Cruickshank, in what was to become the most extensive ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mountain Men

    by Rick Steber ...
    Series series Tales of the Wild West
    Born into every generation are a few restless souls who long for adventure. In the early 1800s this wild breed became mountain men who headed up the Missouri, crossed the Rock-ies and continued west, hunting, trapping and exploring as they went.One mountainman,reflecting the general attitude of the day, wrote, 'We found the richest place for beaver we had yet come across, and it took us forty days ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Death Wins in the Arctic

    The Lost Winter Patrol of 1910

    by Kerry Karram ...
    With prospectors, trappers, and whalers pouring into northwestern Canada, the North West Mounted Police were dispatched to the newest frontier to maintain patrols, protect indigenous peoples, and enforce laws in the North. In carrying out their duties, these intrepid men endured rigorous and dangerous conditions.On December 21, 1910, a four-man patrol left Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus