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  • The Curious Passage of Richard Blanshard

    First Governor of Vancouver Island

    by Barry Gough ...
    Celebrated historian Barry Gough brings a defining era of Pacific Northwest history into focus in this biography of Richard Blanshard, the first governor of Vancouver Island—illuminating with intriguing detail the genesis and early days of Canada's westernmost province.Early one wintry day in March 1850, after seven weary weeks out of sight of land, a well-dressed Londoner, a bachelor aged thirty ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Britannia's Navy on the West Coast of North America, 1812–1914

    by Barry Gough ...
    The influence of the Royal Navy on the development of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest was both extensive and effective. Yet all too frequently, its impact has been ignored by historians, who instead focus on the influence of explorers, fur traders, settlers, and railway builders. In this thoroughly revised and expanded edition of his classic 1972 work, naval historian Barry Gough ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Voyages in the Waterway of Forgotten Dreams

    Voyages in the Waterway of Forgotten Dreams

    by Barry Gough ...
    The tale begins in sixteenth-century Venice, when explorer Juan de Fuca encountered English merchant Michael Lok and relayed a fantastic story of a marine passageway that connected the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. This tale would be the catalyst for centuries of dreaming, and exacerbate English and Spanish rivalry.The search for the fabled Northwest Passage inspired explorers to seek out fame, ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Through Water, Ice & Fire

    Schooner Nancy of the War of 1812

    by Barry Gough ...
    The schooner Nancy, legendary vessel of Great Lakes and Canadian history, lived a thousand lives in a noted career that began in Detroit and ended in a fiery explosion in Nottawasaga River in the last year of the War of 1812.This dramatic, soundly researched narrative depicts the reality of the men who sailed her while fighting a gritty war. Carrying the war to the enemy in hazardous ways, they ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

  • Possessing Meares Island

    A Historian's Journey into the Past of Clayoquot Sound

    by Barry Gough ...
    A fascinating account that links early maritime history, Indigenous land rights, and modern environmental advocacy in the Clayoquot Sound region by award-winning author and historian Barry Gough.Centred on Meares Island, located near Tofino on Vancouver Island’s west coast, Possessing Meares Island weaves a unique history out of the mists of time by connecting eighteenth century Indigenous ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow, Volume III

    Jutland and After May to December 1916

    by Arthur J. Marder ...
    Volume III in this definitive WWI naval history presents an in-depth analysis of the Battle of Jutland, with a new introduction by historian Barry Gough.Arthur Marder's five-volume history From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow is one of the finest contributions to naval history, chronicling the dramatic conflicts of the First World War with an "unrivalled mastery of sources" and "a gift of simple ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow, Volume II

    To The Eve of Jutland 1914–1916

    by Arthur Marder ...
    Second in the five-volume series of Great Britain's politics, naval strategies, and seacraft during World War I from a Royal Navy historian.Introduction by Canadian maritime and naval historian Barry GoughThe five volumes that constitute Arthur Marder's From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow represents arguably the finest contribution to the literature of naval history since U.S. Naval officer and ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow, Volume I

    The Road to War 1904–1914

    by Arthur Marder ...
    "A masterpiece . . . an indispensable source on the Royal Navy's development in the decade before the First World War." —War in HistoryThe five volumes that constitute Arthur Marder's From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow represented arguably the finest contribution to the literature of naval history since Alfred Mahan. A. J. P. Taylor wrote that "his naval history has a unique fascination. To ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Secret Capture

    U-110 and the Enigma Story

    by Stephen Roskill ...
    "A real-life Boy's Own escapade, telling the absorbing story about the capture of U-boat 110 in May 1941 by the Royal Navy." — Defense Focus MagazineFor fifteen years after the end of the war, all official Admiralty records showed the German submarine U-110 as sunk on nine May 1941 by the surface escorts of convoy OB.318. As this book was th... ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Historical Dreadnoughts

    Arthur Marder, Stephen Roskill and Battles for Naval History

    by Barry Gough ...
    An account of Arthur Marder, his famous sparring partner Captain Stephen Roskill, and their enduring quest for pre-eminence in the naval history field.This is the story of the remarkable, intersecting careers of the two greatest writers on British naval history in the twentieth century—the American professor Arthur Marder, son of immigrant Russian Jews, and Captain Stephen Roskill, who knew the ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Search of the Visible Past

    History Lectures at Wilfrid Laurier University 1973-1974

    by Barry Gough ...
    This book is a combination of five public lectures offered to the university and community during the academic year 1973–1974, given by the History Department of Wilfrid Laurier University. These were given by leading scholars in their individual fields and are published here.The essays are on such topics as family life in New France, the origins of British fiscal policy during the French ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • From Classroom to Battlefield

    Victoria High School and the First World War

    by Barry Gough ...
    In August 1914, Canada found itself jolted from its splendid isolation by the onrush of a European catastrophe. In Victoria, British Columbia, five hundred youth who had been educated at Victoria High School went to war and were forever changed by the experience.From Classroom to Battlefield follows the experiences of this cohort through the Second Battle of Ypres, when Canadians suffered terribly ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD