Kaïsha n’a que 13 ans lorsqu’elle apprend qu’elle est une enfant des deux mondes. Née d’un amour interdit, elle est condamnée à être rejetée et méprisée par tous. Résolue à découvrir la vérité sur ses origines, elle s’embarque dans un...
Travel
- Author:Camirand, ÉlisabethSummary:
- Author:Sutherland, CindySummary:
Quinn Donovan needs a change to get over a broken heart, so when he finds out his father wants some new horses from Ireland, he jumps at the opportunity. He has always dreamed of going abroad. But when he gets there, his first meeting...
- Author:Jacquot, Martine L.Summary:
En transit à Paris après un séjour à Moscou, Ève, interprète de métier, est bloquée à l’aéroport en raison du mauvais temps. Juste avant d’embarquer pour Ottawa, elle croit entendre aux nouvelles télévisées le nom d’une personne qui a...
- Author:Moisan, MartinSummary:
Le voyage d’Ayrus est un conte philosophique pour tous. Il relate l’histoire d’un jeune homme qui poursuit une quête initiatique afin d’obtenir les secrets de l’élixir de vie et de la pilule d’immortalité. Au cours de son périple, Ayrus...
- Author:St. John Mandel, EmilySummary:
Lilia Albert can't remember many details from her childhood--she just knows she was always on the move. As an adult, she travels compulsively, leaving behind friends and lovers all over the world. But when one man refuses to let go and...
- Author:ADAMS, DouglasSummary:
A groundbreaking, humourous and extraordinary adventure to find the rarest creatures on Earth. In the 1980s celebreated writer Douglas Adams teamed up with zoologist Mark Carwardine in search of some of the world's most threatened...
- Author:White, Winston C.Summary:
For many years all kinds of travellers and adventurers have been going to Labrador. Some of those who went to live and work there have written good accounts of their life experiences. Others who went as adventurers, tourists, or workers...
- Author:Lee, NormanSummary:
The latest addition to TouchWood Editions’ Classics West Collection, Klondike Cattle Drive is the colourful tale of a formidable trek undertaken by legendary Cariboo rancher Norman Lee.In 1898, Lee set out to drive 200 head of cattle...
- Author:Wooldridge, Connie NordhielmSummary:
Follows the development of roads in the United States--and the new forms of transportation that used them--from the National Highway of 1805 through railroads and paved roads for bicycles and automobiles to the interstate system.
- Author:Dixon, GlennSummary:
When Glenn Dixon is spurned by love, he packs his bags for Verona, Italy. Once there, he volunteers to answer the thousands of letters that arrive addressed to Juliet. When Glenn returns home to Canada and resumes his duties as an...
- Author:Herriot, TrevorSummary:
The Genesis story of Jacob, the patriarch of the Judeo-Christian tradition, wrestling with a spirit has been interpreted in a multitude of ways, but never more persuasively than by Trevor Herriot in Jacob’s Wound. He sees it as a...
- Author:Petrou, MichaelSummary:
A leading journalist travels through the hot spots of the Middle East and Central Asia, from Pakistan and Afghanistan to Syria and Egypt. Winner of the Ottawa Book Award for English Non-Fiction, 2013 Less than a year before 9/11,...
- Author:Jarman, MarkSummary:
On August 22, 1922, near Macroom, County Cork, a single bullet from an unknown gunman killed Michael Collins, the Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army. The day Collins was buried, businesses across Dublin shut down as...
- Author:Stephenson, Wendy, Downey, AutumnSummary:
Etseh, Etsi and their three grandchildren have just embarked on a month long canoe trip in the Northwest Territories -- from the town of Rae to Hottah Lake. They are following the Idaa trail, a trade route that the Dogrib people have...
- Author:McNeil, JeanSummary:
"Ice Diaries is stunningly written and should be on the shelf of anyone fascinated by the globe’s final geographic and psychic frontier.” — The New York Times
“It’s a discussion of the Antarctic as a physical landscape—...
- Author:McNeil, JeanSummary:
Winner of the Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize and one of the Guardian’s Best Books of 2016.
Drawn to understand what we might lose in a world without ice, acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Jean...
- Author:Frankel, MilesSummary:
In 1969, Miles Frankel, a young British doctor, was recruited by the International Grenfell Association to provide medical services to communities in northern Newfoundland and coastal Labrador. From St. Anthony he travelled—by boat,...
- Author:Goslin, Priscilla AnnSummary:
An international bestseller since 1992, this is a humorous look at what makes up one of the world's most colorful characters: the Carioca—those charming inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro, written by a U.S. native who has made Rio her home...
- Author:Scoones, Anny, Amos, RobertSummary:
Join beloved storyteller Anny Scoones as she sets out to discover the quaint and quirky charms of Victoria, BC. Not just a book of facts, Hometown is a gentle stroll through a diverse region with a fascinating and layered history....
- Author:Mowat, FarleySummary:
In 1947, Farley Mowat traveled to the Canadian arctic, that vast part of Canada which most Canadians never come to know. Twenty years later, Mowat returned for the most extensive northern trip of his life. In this book, Mowat chronicles...