The Way to the Western Sea
Author: David Sievert Lavender
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9780803280038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published: New York: Harper & Row, c1988.
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Author: David Sievert Lavender
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9780803280038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published: New York: Harper & Row, c1988.
Author: Lawrence Burpee
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Published: 2005-08-01
Total Pages: 813
ISBN-13: 1596052066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDreamers they were, sailing out into the west in quest of they knew not what-puppets in the game of destiny. What splendid courage it must have needed to sail in their little cockle-shells of vessels over that untravelled sea, with its dangers all the more terrifying because unknown... -Lawrence J. Burpee, in the Introduction From the discovery of Hudson Bay and the search for the mythical Northwest Passage to the first overland journey to the Pacific, Canadian historian Lawrence Burpee makes the story of the exploration of northwestern North America come alive in this classic book, first published in 1908. Meet Samuel Hearne, who survived Indian massacres to discover the mouth of the Coppermine River in 1771 and proved the nonexistence of a water passage across the continent; the adventurous La V rendrye family of explorers; path-finding fur trader Peter Pond; astronomer and surveyor David Thompson; and others who contributed to the European settlement of North America. LAWRENCE J. BURPEE (1873-1947), a beloved popularizer of Canadian history, was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In addition to authoring numerous books of North American exploration, including Pathfinders of the Great Plains and The Discovery of Canada, he was also the founding editor of Canadian Geographical Journal and among the founders of the Canadian Historical Association. He served on the board of the Boy Scouts of Canada and was a member of the Royal Society of Canada and the National Geographic Society.
Author: George Sterling
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 296
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 840
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 932
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bernard De Voto
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 694
ISBN-13: 9780395924983
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTracing North American Exploration from Balboa to Lewis and Clark, Devoto tells in a classic fashion how the drama of discovery defined the American nation. The Course of Empire is the third volume in historian Bernard Devoto's monumental trilogy of the West. Entertaining and incisive, this is the dramatic story of three hundred years of exploration of North America leading up to 1805.
Author: James Horsburgh
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Published: 1855
Total Pages: 744
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Wolff
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
Published: 2018-03-10
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1908524995
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJonas works for the UK secret service as an intelligence analyst. When his father is kidnapped and held for ransom by ISIS gunmen in Syria, he takes matters into his own hands and begins to steal the only currency he has access to: secret government intelligence. He heads to Beirut with a haul of the most sensitive documents imaginable and recruits an unlikely ally – an alcoholic Swiss priest named Father Tobias. Despite barely surviving his previous contact with ISIS, Tobias agrees to travel into the heart of the Islamic State and inform the kidnappers that Jonas is willing to negotiate for his father’s life. When the British and American governments realise they may be dealing with betrayal on a scale far greater than that of Edward Snowden, they try everything in their power to stop Jonas, and he finds himself tested to the limit as he fights to keep the negotiations alive and play his enemies off against each other. As the book races towards a thrilling confrontation in the Syrian desert, Jonas will have to decide how far he is willing to go to see his father again.
Author: John Buchan
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-08-01
Total Pages: 174
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Memory Hold-the-Door" by John Buchan. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.