Canadian Exploration Literature

Canadian Exploration Literature
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Publisher : Dundurn
Total Pages : 606
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ISBN-10 : 9781459721081
ISBN-13 : 145972108X
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Canadian Exploration Literature by : Germaine Warkentin

First published by Oxford University Press in 1993, Exploration Literature is a groundbreaking collection of early writing inspired by the opening of a continent.With maps, notes, and thumbnail biographies of these early writers, Exploration Literature is an entry point for both the casual reader and the student of Canadian literature into the beginnings of a literate response to the awe and wonder inspired by an unfolding geography and the literary fundamentals of new nationhood.

Canadian Exploration Literature

Canadian Exploration Literature
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Publisher : Dundurn
Total Pages : 606
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ISBN-10 : 9781550026610
ISBN-13 : 1550026615
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Canadian Exploration Literature by : Germaine Warkentin

This anthology is an entry point into the beginnings of a literate response to the awe and wonder inspired by an unfolding geography.

The Kids Book of Canadian Exploration

The Kids Book of Canadian Exploration
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Publisher : Kids Can Press
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1554532574
ISBN-13 : 9781554532575
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis The Kids Book of Canadian Exploration by : Ann-Maureen Owens

From Native peoples in search of new hunting grounds to European fishermen out for bigger catches, explorers were drawn to Canada for many reasons. They discovered a vast and mysterious land that took hundreds of years to explore and map. But the story of Canadian exploration is about a lot more than mapping wilderness. With no new lands left to discover, present-day explorers focus on outer space, the ocean and the preservation of Earth's changing ecosystems.

Stefansson, Dr. Anderson and the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918

Stefansson, Dr. Anderson and the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918
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Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages : 441
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ISBN-10 : 9781772824186
ISBN-13 : 1772824186
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Stefansson, Dr. Anderson and the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918 by : Stuart E. Jenness

The first comprehensive account of one of the great sagas of Arctic exploration and discovery, the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913–1918, led by the ethnologist/explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson and the zoologist Dr. Rudolph M. Anderson. There are details of the Expedition’s successes and tragedies, including the discovery of all but one large island north of the Canadian mainland, the accumulation of considerable scientific information and valuable collections, and the personal feud of the Expedition’s two leaders. Four appendices list Expedition personnel, fifty-three geographical sites in the Arctic named after them, locations of their diaries and collected specimens, and the thirteen government volumes arising from the Expedition.

Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era

Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 354
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ISBN-10 : 0521829194
ISBN-13 : 9780521829199
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era by : Tim Fulford

Examines the massive impact of colonial exploration on British scientific and literary activity between the 1760s and 1830s.

The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 371
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ISBN-10 : 9781107159624
ISBN-13 : 1107159628
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature by : Eva-Marie Kröller

A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.

Writing Geographical Exploration

Writing Geographical Exploration
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Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : 9781552380628
ISBN-13 : 1552380629
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Writing Geographical Exploration by : Wayne Kenneth David Davies

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.

Why We Act Like Canadians

Why We Act Like Canadians
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Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Total Pages : 104
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ISBN-10 : 9781551995342
ISBN-13 : 1551995344
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Why We Act Like Canadians by : Pierre Berton

In this challenging book, written as a series of open letters to an American friend, Pierre Berton reaches into his profound knowledge of the country’s history and geography to dissect, praise, explain and occasionally criticize the national character. He does so, not with abstract opinions but with apt and colourful examples taken from the past and the present: Sam Steele’s gold rush censorship of the Turkish Whirlwind Danseuse; Ontario’s grudging acceptance of beer in three Toronto ballparks; New York’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade; Lorne Greene’s rueful return to Toronto; William Van Horne’s tirade against winter carnivals; the role of Kentucky in the War of 1812; W.A.C. Bennett’s surprising takeover of the B.C. Electric Company on the day of its president’s funeral. All these apparently disconnected incidents are woven into a carefully thought-out dissection of the national character, a distillation of more than thirty years of Berton research.

Ships of Wood and Men of Iron

Ships of Wood and Men of Iron
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Publisher : Dundurn
Total Pages : 161
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ISBN-10 : 9781897045060
ISBN-13 : 1897045069
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Ships of Wood and Men of Iron by : Gerard Kenney

A history of explorations of the Arctic in Canada, beginning with Otto Sverdrup's 1898?1902 Norwegian expedition.

Explorations in the Icy North

Explorations in the Icy North
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : 0822946599
ISBN-13 : 9780822946595
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Explorations in the Icy North by : Nanna Katrine Luders Kaalund

Science in the Arctic changed dramatically over the course of the nineteenth century, when early, scattered attempts in the region to gather knowledge about all aspects of the natural world transitioned to a more unified Arctic science under the First International Polar Year in 1882. The IPY brought together researchers from multiple countries with the aim of undertaking systematic and coordinated experiments and observations in the Arctic and Antarctic. Harsh conditions, intense isolation, and acute danger inevitably impacted the making and communicating of scientific knowledge. At the same time, changes in ideas about what it meant to be an authoritative observer of natural phenomena were linked to tensions in imperial ambitions, national identities, and international collaborations of the IPY. Through a focused study of travel narratives in the British, Danish, Canadian, and American contexts, Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund uncovers not only the transnational nature of Arctic exploration, but also how the publication and reception of literature about it shaped an extreme environment, its explorers, and their scientific practices. She reveals how, far beyond the metropole--in the vast area we understand today as the North American and Greenlandic Arctic--explorations and the narratives that followed ultimately influenced the production of field science in the nineteenth century.