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“michael layland”

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  • Turmoil

    The Life and Times of Philip Hankin

    by Michael Layland ...
    Meticulously researched and engagingly written, Turmoil: The Life and Times of Philip Hankin follows the daring, rocky life of a world traveler, marine charter, four-time acting head of government, and larger-than-life personality who has for too long been an unseen shadow in the background of B.C.’s turbulent early history.Hailing from a frigid aristocratic family in England, Philip Hankin first ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The Land of Heart's Delight

    Early Maps and Charts of Vancouver Island

    by Michael Layland ...
    Shortlisted for the 2014 City of Victoria Butler Book PrizeShortlisted for a 2014 BC Book PrizeFinalist for the Lieutenant-Governor's Medal for Historical WritingJust how, and why, did Vancouver Island get onto the map? How was knowledge of our immediate geography acquired and recorded? With 130 maps, dating between 1593 and 1915, this cartographic history tells the story of how Vancouver Island ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • In Nature's Realm

    Early Naturalists Explore Vancouver Island

    by Michael Layland ...
    Winner of the 2020 Basil Stuart Stubbs PrizeWinner of the 2019 Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Historical WritingA celebration of the richly diverse flora and fauna of Vancouver Island as explored through the records of explorers, settlers, and visitors, and with due respect to the wealth of Indigenous traditional knowledge of the island’s ecosystems.In Nature’s Realm gathers initial reports, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • True Stories from Nova Scotia's Past

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    CBC Radio's Information Morning history columnist Dianne Marshall is well known for the lively and surprising true stories she tells about Nova Scotia's past. Now the best of them have been gathered together in this enjoyable book.The stories cover 250 years of Nova Scotia history, often featuring people who don't make it into conventional history books. These incredible accounts include: the plot ... Read more

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  • Endeavour

    The Ship That Changed the World

    by Peter Moore ...
    "An immense treasure trove of fact-filled and highly readable fun." --Simon Winchester, The New York Times Book ReviewA Sunday Times (U.K.) Best Book of 2018 and W inner of the Mary Soames Award for HistoryAn unprecedented history of the storied ship that Darwin said helped add a hemisphere to the civilized worldThe Enlightenment was an age of endeavors, with Britain consumed by the... ... Read more

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  • The Bounty

    The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

    by Caroline Alexander ...
    Has history been wrong for 200 years? Read the startling truth about the mutiny on the Bounty, its characters, causes, and aftermath. Television rights are now in development with Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions.More than two centuries after Master’s Mate Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh on a small, armed transport vessel called Bounty, the true story of this ... Read more

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  • Flight from Famine

    The Coming of the Irish to Canada

    by Donald MacKay ...
    One of Canada's founding peoples, the Irish arrived in the Newfoundland fishing stations as early as the seventeenth century. By the eighteenth century they were establishing farms and settlements from Nova Scotia to the Great Lakes. Then, in the 1840s, came the failures of Ireland's potato crop, which people in the west of Ireland had depended on for survival. "And that," wrote a Sligo countryman ... Read more

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  • Vancouver Island Scoundrels, Eccentrics and Originals

    Tales from the Library Vault

    by Stephen Ruttan ...
    Found on the history shelves of the Greater Victoria Public Library, these twenty true stories are brought to life by Stephen Ruttan. They draw a picture of the life of a city with a recent past that's both unconventional and colourful. From Miss Wilson and her famous parrot, Louis, to Jimmy Chicken Island, named after a man who acquired his surname from his habit of stealing chickens, to the Pig ... Read more

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  • Voyages of Hope: The Saga of the Bride-Ships

    The Saga of the Bride-Ships

    by Peter Johnson ...
    A line of nervous young women got off a ship in Victoria Harbour in 1862 and had to walk the gauntlet between two rows of jostling, eager men. One girl, proposed to on the spot, accepted equally quickly and left town with her new husband. Why did these women leave everything behind in England and come to the west coast? The answers lie in the lusty turmoil of a gold-rush frontier, the horrible ... Read more

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  • Men Without Country

    The true story of exploration and rebellion in the South Seas

    by Harrison Christian ...
    ‘What joy to be at sea again, adrift on the vast Pacific, in the clutches of a gifted storyteller. Harrison Christian and the mutineers of Men Without Country held me happily captive to the very last page.’ Dava Sobel, author of LongitudeA mission to collect breadfruit from Tahiti becomes the most famous mutiny in history when the crew rise up against Captain William Bligh, with accusations of ... Read more

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    The true story of the Dunbar, the disaster that broke the colony's heart and forged a nation's spirit

    by Larry Writer ...
    The epic story of one of Australia's greatest maritime disasters, the wreck of the Dunbar.'gripping, engaging popular history' - Sydney Morning HeraldThe Dunbar was one of the most advanced and celebrated sailing ships of the mid-19th century. Built to carry passengers in speed and luxury on the long route from Britain to Australia, it was the Titanic of its day.Late at night on 20 August 1857, af ... Read more

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