The Trans-Canada Highway is the only federal highway in Canada that, with a few junctions, forms a link system through ten provinces of the country. Covering more than seven thousand kilometers, the TCH is the only continuous transcontinental road of Canada and the third long-est road of the world. The Trans-Siberian Road in Russia and Highway 1 in Australia are longer. The Yellowhead Highway forms the northern branch of the TCH in the western provinces. Although the Trans-Canada Highway was opened in 1962, it was completed in 1970 and is mostly four-lane and crossing-free.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die. "It may be nonfiction, but Into the Wild is a mystery of the highest order." —Entertainment Weekly McCandess had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Not long after, he was dead. Into the Wild is the mesmerizing, heartbreaking tale of an enigmatic young man who goes missing in the wild and whose story captured the world’s attention. Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild. Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless's short life. Admitting an interest that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the drives and desires that propelled McCandless. When McCandless's innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal, he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naiveté, pretensions, and hubris. He is said to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge. Krakauer brings McCandless's uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity, and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding—and not an ounce of sentimentality. Into the Wild is a tour de force. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer's stoytelling blaze through every page.
While You Owe Yourself a Drunk was far from the first anthropological study of a non-native population in North America, its appearance marked an early stage in an increasingly evident shift toward bringing anthropology home. Now available from Waveland Press, Spradleys carefully researched portrayal of skid row men in Seattle in the late sixties documents their treatment by jails and the legal system in a time before homelessness became a recognized problem. As a result of Spradleys elegant and impassioned writing, the book became a sharp challenge to politicians, policymakers, judges, police, and others inclined to punish people for the crime of poverty. The insights he gained from studying the tramp culture of Seattle ultimately were seen as highly significant in the treatment of recidivist alcoholics as well as in creating a more appropriate and human response to public drunkenness. This now-classic landmark study in urban ethnography stands as a shining example of the direct application of distinctly anthropological concepts and methods to address real-world problems. But more important, it represents a poignant challenge to society about our capacity to endure and accept nonconformity and social diversity. The Waveland reissue includes a valuable retrospective introduction by Merrill Singer.
This is book 2 of the Rubber Tramps MC series! Book 3 is available everywhere now! Anything goes at the edge of the road. I'm ripped for her pleasure. Inked for her enjoyment. But in the end, I'm bound to be her downfall. Because she's playing a dangerous game in a dangerous world. And her secrets can't stay secret for long. SANDY I've known my share of bad boys, but Leon is something else. Tall, menacing, powerful… he's as dangerous as the MC he commands. Yet something draws me to him. Somehow, as long as I'm locked inside his brawny arms, I know I'm protected. But I've never been safe for long. Soon, the same demons who dog me are hounding down Leon's door. As far as the biker knows, I'm just single mom with a baby to protect, looking for any way to keep us safe. But I'm terrified he'll recognize my little boy's eyes, and he'll realize the truth: I've been hiding a terrible secret. LEON I've got too much on my plate right now to deal with a young broad who thinks she's got it all figured out. My MC is in trouble of disintegrating. Cops and rivals alike are howling for my downfall. And my VP can't seem to keep his eyes off the little runaway I brought home after a bad brawl at the diner. But there's something about Sandy and her son that feels familiar – too familiar. And her boy needs the stability I never had growing up. Too bad there's no place in my life for a wife, a child, a family. I can't give her what she wants, no matter how distracting our heated arguments and even hotter sessions are. But then I discover what she's been hiding from me. And everything starts to change.
Carpe Diem If you want to explore Newfoundland and the maritime provinces of Canada, please bear in mind that you have to slip into a warming anorak even in summer. Every rain free day is a gift at the edge of the Labrador Current. Rubber boots and good rain wear are also essential. You can admire icebergs from Greenland on the island in the north as late as June to July, and the small harbours are often decorated with ice floes until well into the summer. But when the sun breaks through, this region of Canada opens up in all its diversity and drama. In the north, a former Viking settlement bears witness to the earliest community, even before the Europeans discovered America and later established themselves there. Small, picturesque fishing villages tell of a hard struggle for existence. In the past as well as today. Lonely stretches of land give flora and fauna the opportunity to face the harsh weather. The capital, St. Johns, impresses with colourful wooden houses and a lively pub culture. The oddball humour of the population is unique, and they all love their musical heritage. Carpe diem! Seize the day!
Nestled between Santa Monica and Marina del Rey, Venice is a Los Angeles community filled with apparent contradictions. There, people of various races and classes live side by side, a population of astounding diversity bound together by geographic proximity. From street to street, and from block to block, million dollar homes stand near housing projects and homeless encampments; and upscale boutiques are just a short walk from the (in)famous Venice Beach where artists and carnival performers practice their crafts opposite cafés and ragtag tourist shops. In Venice: A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles, Andrew Deener invites the reader on an ethnographic tour of this legendary California beach community and the people who live there. In writing this book, the ethnographer became an insider; Deener lived as a resident of Venice for close to six years. Here, he brings a scholarly eye to bear on the effects of gentrification, homelessness, segregation, and immigration on this community. Through stories from five different parts of Venice—Oakwood, Rose Avenue, the Boardwalk, the Canals, and Abbot Kinney Boulevard— Deener identifies why Venice maintained its diversity for so long and the social and political factors that threaten it. Drenched in the details of Venice’s transformation, the themes and explanations will resonate far beyond this one city. Deener reveals that Venice is not a single locale, but a collection of neighborhoods, each with its own identity and conflicts—and he provides a cultural map infinitely more useful than one that merely shows streets and intersections. Deener's Venice appears on these pages fully fleshed out and populated with a stunning array of people. Though the character of any neighborhood is transient, Deener's work is indelible and this book will be studied for years to come by scholars across the social sciences.
This is book 1 of the Steel Jockeys MC series! Books 2 and 3 are available everywhere now! I won't take no for an answer. I claimed my best friend's little sister. I don't care if she wants this. I don't care if it's wrong. Tonight, she'll learn the truth: she belongs to me now. I swore I'd keep her safe. That's the last thing I said to him – her brother, my best friend – before he died in my arms. Keeping her safe meant keeping her far the hell away from the Steel Jockeys MC. A little girl like Ruby had no business getting mixed up with a clubhouse full of cold-blooded killers, hitmen, outlaws, and bikers. We drank too much. Rode too hard. So, for seven years, I kept her away. And I upheld my oath to my fallen brother-in-arms. But all of a sudden, Ruby isn't a little girl anymore. She's a woman. Not just any woman – she's a beauty. Hair like a sunlit waterfall, skin pure and flawless, curves that test the strength of my zipper. Like it happened overnight, she went from being my best friend's kid sister… To a woman that I'd kill to have. The only problem is, other people feel the same. Especially the men who slaughtered her brother. And they're coming back to finish the job they started seven years ago. But there's a difference. This time around, I'm ready for war. Because if they think they can take Ruby from me, they've got another thing coming. From the second I saw her, I knew one thing: this girl was mine now. And there's not a single man, dead or alive, who gets to lay a damn finger on what's mine. I'm a savage rebel. And I'll kill to protect my woman.
