Northern Passage

Author : Stan Rogers
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781554984039

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Northwest Passage by Stan Rogers Pdf

Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Illustration Award-winning artist Matt James takes the iconic song "Northwest Passage" by legendary Canadian songwriter and singer Stan Rogers and tells the dramatic story of the search for the elusive route through the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific, which for hundreds of years and once again today, nations, explorers and commercial interests have dreamt of conquering, often with tragic consequences. For hundreds of years explorers attempted to find the Northwest Passage - a route through Canada's northern waters to the Pacific Ocean and Asia. Others attempted to find a land route. Many hundreds of men perished in the attempt, until finally, in 1906, Roald Amundsen completed the voyage by ship. Today global warming has brought interest in the passage back to a fever pitch as nations contend with each other over its control and future uses. The historic search inspired Canadian folk musician Stan Rogers to write "Northwest Passage", a song that has become a widely known favorite since its 1981 release. It describes Stan's own journey overland as he contemplates the arduous journeys of some of the explorers, including Kelsey, Mackenzie, Thompson and especially Franklin. The song is moving and haunting, a paean to the adventurous spirit of the explorers and to the beauty of the vast land and icy seas. The lyrics are accompanied by the striking paintings of multiple award-winning artist Matt James. Matt brings a unique vision to the song and the history behind it, providing commentary on the Franklin expedition and its failure to heed the wisdom of Inuit living in the North. The book also contains the music for the song (as well as a final verse that was never recorded), maps, a timeline of Arctic exploration, mini-biographies and portraits of the principal explorers, and suggestions for further reading. Following on the success of Canadian Railroad Trilogy, this is another beautiful book in which a memorable song illuminates a fascinating history that has taken on new resonance today.

Author : John Hagan
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 067400471X

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Northern Passage by John Hagan Pdf

More than 50,000 Americans migrated to Canada during the Vietnam War. Hagan, himself a member of the exodus, searched declassified government files, consulted previously unopened resistance organization archives and contemporary oral histories, and interviewed American war resisters settled in Toronto to learn how they made the momentous decision.

Author : Robert Jarvenpa
Publisher : Prospect Heights, Ill. : Waveland Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015048923711

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Northern Passage by Robert Jarvenpa Pdf

Author : John Mason
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-02
Category : Afghanistan
ISBN : 1466220724

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S. T. A. L. K. E. R. Southern Comfort by John Mason Pdf

To outsiders, the former USSR is always been a place where everything is strangely different. All the more so in the Exclusion Zone around the ill-fated Chernobyl power plant, where after a secret experiment went wrong in 2006, the laws of physics are bent and mysterious phenomena manifest.In 2011, another Zone is apparently created after Al-Qaeda detonated nukes in Afghanistan. Ukrainian authorities send a research team to verify the claims. The scientists go missing and a search and rescue operation is launched. For Mikhailo Tarasov, officer in the armed forces who desperately try to contain the Exclusion Zone, this mutant-infested wilderness is his home turf. But when he sets out on his mission into the New Zone, he soon finds himself facing perils he has never encountered before. His mission becomes a struggle against evil permeating the wastelands, confronted with the shadows of the country's troubled history at each step. Tarasov is aided by unlikely allies - outcasts, adventurers, renegade US Marines and a mysterious woman who appears to be the keeper of dark secrets. But beyond all the perils, the ultimate danger awaits: betrayal.The noir, post-apocalyptic narrative of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Southern Comfort goes is a contemporary voyage into the heart of darkness, where not only the laws of physics are bent but the rules of the outside world as well. This is an alternative reality where outcasts prevail, the oppressed take revenge and the faithful revolt. "Whatever power had created the Zone, it has outsmarted us and it has happened again. You will look at the New Zone with fresh eyes... like Strelok did here when everything began." Major Alexander Degtyarev, 2014

Author : James Delgado
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926706535

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Across the Top of the World by James Delgado Pdf

The centuries-long quest for the fabled Northwest Passage rivals the story of Antarctic exploration for heroism, drama, and tragedy. Expedition after expedition set off in search of a sea route connecting Europe with Asia's riches; each expedition suffered extreme hardship and ended in defeat, until Roald Amundsen finally succeeded in 1903-06. Across the Top of the World brings this incredible saga to life through exhaustive research, grim firsthand accounts, and hundreds of dramatic images. Paintings, engravings, and photos of the intrepid men and their ships, as well as of relics and archaeological sites, provide a poignant and compelling link with the past, while landscapes and seascapes of the harsh yet beautiful Arctic illustrate the challenges that faced explorers. Covering all the major expeditions in detail, and written with passion and authority, this book is both a scholarly reference and an eminently readable history of Arctic exploration.

Author : Anuk Arudpragasam
Publisher : Hogarth
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593230718

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A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam Pdf

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A young man journeys into Sri Lanka’s war-torn north in this searing novel of longing, loss, and the legacy of war from the author of The Story of a Brief Marriage. “A novel of tragic power and uncommon beauty.”—Anthony Marra “One of the most individual minds of their generation.”—Financial Times NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND NPR A Passage North begins with a message from out of the blue: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother’s caretaker, Rani, has died under unexpected circumstances—found at the bottom of a well in her village in the north, her neck broken by the fall. The news arrives on the heels of an email from Anjum, an impassioned yet aloof activist Krishnan fell in love with years before while living in Delhi, stirring old memories and desires from a world he left behind. As Krishan makes the long journey by train from Colombo into the war-torn Northern Province for Rani’s funeral, so begins an astonishing passage into the innermost reaches of a country. At once a powerful meditation on absence and longing, as well as an unsparing account of the legacy of Sri Lanka’s thirty-year civil war, this procession to a pyre “at the end of the earth” lays bare the imprints of an island’s past, the unattainable distances between who we are and what we seek. Written with precision and grace, Anuk Arudpragasam’s masterful novel is an attempt to come to terms with life in the wake of devastation, and a poignant memorial for those lost and those still living.

Author : Willy de Roos
Publisher : London ; Toronto : Hollis & Carter
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015031458063

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North-West Passage by Willy de Roos Pdf

Account of author's solo expedition through the Northwest Passage aboard the yacht "Williwaw", from Greenland to the Bering Straits.

Author : Rob Leachman
Publisher : Packages
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0945434405

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Northwest Passage by Rob Leachman Pdf

Author : Robert Jarvenpa
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1998-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478609117

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Northern Passage by Robert Jarvenpa Pdf

What is it like living among and learning about the cultural realities of other people for the first time? Northern Passage uses the motif of apprenticeship to reveal the humbling, childlike quest of the novice ethnographer, on the one hand, and the trials of an active participant learning the intricacies of bush life and livelihood from subarctic Indian hunting partners and teachers, on the other hand. In the process, Jarvenpas reflexive narrative presents a compelling vision of northern Dene or Athapaskan society. The Han people of the Yukon Territory and eastern Alaska and the Chipewyan of northern Saskatchewan emerge as vividly drawn actors in a cultural landscape distinctly influenced by gold miners, fur traders, missionaries, conservation officers, and other post-colonial agents. This candid but sensitive treatment deals with issues such as trapping economies, knowledge of the environment, dreaming and hunting power, permission and informed consent, language learning, accusations of spying, alcohol use, economic development, partnerships, note-taking, and the pros and cons of active participation. Jarvenpas early field experiences unfold as a primer on false leads, setbacks and revealing discoveries building to a suspenseful aftershock.

Author : Jeff MacInnis,Wade Rowland
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0804106509

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Polar Passage by Jeff MacInnis,Wade Rowland Pdf

Starting in July, 1986, dressed in high-tech diving suits and mountaineering gear, Jeff MacInnis and photographer Mike Beedell sailed, dragged and slid their 450-pound catamaran, The Perception, through the brutal high-Arctic environment. An enthralling story of struggle and survival. HC: Random House (Canada).

Author : Ken McGoogan
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443441285

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Dead Reckoning by Ken McGoogan Pdf

With this book—his most ambitious yet—Ken McGoogan delivers a vivid, comprehensive recasting of Arctic-exploration history. Dead Reckoning challenges the conventional narrative, which emerged out of Victorian England and focused almost exclusively on Royal Navy officers. By integrating non-British and fur-trade explorers and, above all, Canada’s indigenous peoples, this work brings the story of Arctic discovery into the twenty-first century. Orthodox history celebrates such naval figures as John Franklin, Edward Parry and James Clark Ross. Dead Reckoning tells their stories, but the book also encompasses such forgotten heroes as Thanadelthur, Akaitcho, Tattanoeuck, Ouligbuck, Tookoolito and Ebierbing, to name just a few. Without the assistance of the Inuit, Franklin’s recently discovered ships, Erebus and Terror, would still be lying undiscovered at the bottom of the polar sea. The book ranges from the sixteenth century to the present day, looks at climate change and the politics of the Northwest Passage, and recognizes the cultural diversity of a centuries-old quest. Informed by the author’s own voyages and researches in the Arctic, and illustrated throughout, Dead Reckoning is a colourful, multi-dimensional saga that demolishes myths, exposes pretenders and celebrates unsung heroes. For international readers, it sets out a new story of Arctic discovery. For Canadians, it brings that story home.

Author : Kevin Vallely
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-23
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781771641357

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Rowing the Northwest Passage by Kevin Vallely Pdf

"Vallely transports the reader to places few will ever go: the very edges of the earth and of human endurance." —Evan Solomon In this gripping first-hand account, four seasoned adventurers navigate a sophisticated, high-tech rowboat across the Northwest Passage. One of the "last firsts" remaining in the adventure world, this journey is only possible because of the dramatic impacts of global warming in the high Arctic, which provide an ironic opportunity to draw attention to the growing urgency of climate change. Along the way, the team repeatedly face life-threatening danger from storms unparalleled in their ferocity and unpredictability and bears witness to unprecedented changes in the Arctic habitat and inhabitants, while weathering gale-force vitriol from climate change deniers who have taken to social media to attack them and undermine their efforts.

Author : Kenneth Roberts
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473347199

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Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts Pdf

An exciting and fast paced adventure story based in colonial America. Written from the viewpoint of a fictional friend of the Historic Robert Rodgers, famed in America as the leader of 'Rodgers' Rangers' a guerrilla squadron harassing the English forces throughout the American War of Independence. 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 and artwork.

Author : William Fitzwilliam Milton (Viscount),Walter Butler Cheadle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : British Columbia
ISBN : NWU:35556009147570

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The North-West Passage by Land Being the Narrative of an Expedition from the Atlantic to the Pacific by William Fitzwilliam Milton (Viscount),Walter Butler Cheadle Pdf

Author : Wayne Kenneth David Davies,Arctic Institute of North America
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : 9781552380628

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Writing Geographical Exploration by Wayne Kenneth David Davies,Arctic Institute of North America Pdf

His tale of adventure should occupy a more prominent place in the study of exploration, literature and history, not only in Canada, but also in his homeland of Wales."--Jacket.