Jim McDowell’s new biography of the little-known Spanish explorer José María Narváez, reveals his significant discoveries during the European exploration of what is now Canada’s Pacific Northwest Coast. Narváez was the first European to...
Discoveries in geography
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Author:McDowell, JimSummary: -
Author:Barrett, AndreaSummary:In 1885 Erasmus Darwin Wells embarks an expedition to the Arctic to search for the explorer, John Franklin. Erasmus' fears of failure seem to be realized when the voyage threatens to turn violent.
- Author:Anderson, Nancy MargueriteSummary:
Fifteen years before the 1858 Fraser River gold rush, a Hudson’s Bay Company clerk named Alexander Caulfield Anderson threaded his way through mountain passes and down rapids-filled rivers in search of a safe all-British route through...
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Author:Starr, DavidSummary:This gripping novel for young readers begins in 1805, when fifteen-year-old Duncan Scott and his sister Libby lose their parents in a Glasgow cotton mill fire. Their tragedy is compounded when, through one reckless act of grief, the...
- Author:Bartlett, Robert A.Summary:
Each year, thousands of people visit Bob Bartlett’s boyhood home located in Brigus, Newfoundland and Labrador, to catch a glimpse of this famous sealing captain’s amazing life. Hawthorne Cottage has been designated a National Historic...
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Author:Lester, TobySummary:Lester spotlights Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 world map and recounts the epic tale of the mariners and scholars who facilitated this watershed of Western history.
- Author:Armstrong, JenniferSummary:
Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous...
- Author:Laut, Agnes C., Neering, RosemarySummary:
In the early sixteenth century, the first exploratory ships arrived on the Pacific Coast of North America. These rovers were seeking gold and silver, fur pelts, a safe passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic, and above all, adventure....
- Author:O’Loughlin, EdSummary:
It begins with a chance encounter at the top of the world.
Fay Morgan and Nelson Nilsson have each arrived in Inuvik, Canada, about 120 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Both are in search of answers about a family member: Nelson...
- Author:Krull, KathleenSummary:
You might know the basics about such historical figures as Columbus, Lewis and Clark, and Sally Ride. But what do you really know about these bold explorers? With juicy tidbits galore, this volume reveals these fascinating adventurers ...
- Author:Finley, Robert, Steenhout, IvanSummary:
Ce conte fantasmagorique nous entraîne sur les traces de Christophe Colomb. À ses côtés, nous naviguons sur la mer Océane, vaste et mystérieuse, vers l’ouest, toujours vers l’ouest, obstinément, pour atteindre l’Orient tant rêvé. Robert...
- Author:Williams, GlyndwrSummary:
In this course, University of London history professor Glyndwr Williams will discuss one of the most dramatic periods in world history, the age of Europe's discovery of the world from Columbus and da Gama in the late fifteenth...
- Author:Bown, Stephen R.Summary:
The immense eighteenth-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the coast of North America, involved over 3,000 people and...
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Author:Butts, EdwardSummary:In 1607, Henry Hudson was an obscure English sea captain. By 1610, he was an internationally renowned explorer. He made two voyages in search of a Northeast Passage to the Orient and had discovered the Spitzbergen Islands and their...
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Author:Conrad, JosephSummary:On board the British ship the NELLIE, Marlow told a group of men his story... He told them of his strange, eventful, yet horrific journey into Africa as an agent for the Company, which traded in ivory. He had witnessed the terrible...
- Author:Williams Harmon, DanielSummary:
The first real look at the Canadian West Harmon's Journal-the first published English-language journal written in B.C.-is a lively, engaging story that, unlike other early journals, captures the rough-and-tumble life of a fur trader and...
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Author:Hobson, Richmond P.Summary:Three cowhands with a dream of owning a cattle ranch make a heroic pioneer trek across uncharted mountain ranges to open up the frontier grasslands in northern British Columbia during the early 1930s.
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Author:Twigg, AlanSummary:The names Cook and Quadra ring a bell for most of us, as do Bering and Vancouver, but how much do we know about the Greek-born navigator, Juan de Fuca or the Machiavelli of the maritime fur trade, John Meares? British Columbia's...
- Author:Glover, Douglas, Mathews, LawrenceSummary:
Winner, Governor General's Award for Fiction. Shortlisted, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and Commonwealth Writers' Prize. A 16th-century belle turned Robinson Crusoe, a female Don Quixote with an Inuit Sancho Panza — this is the heroine...
- Author:Andra-Warner, ElleSummary:
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...
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