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  • Then There Was One: The U.S.S. Enterprise And The First Year Of War

    by Eugene Burns ...
    With the war in the Pacific well into its new, offensive phase, the best carrier story of the war can now be told. It is the story of the Enterprise, one of the Navy's greatest fighting ships, the first carrier to receive the rarely awarded Presidential Citation. Of the seven first-line U. S. carriers when war began, four were sunk in the first year of war, another saw action in non-Pacific waters ... Read more

    $6.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Advanced Fly Fishing

    by Eugene F. Burns ...
    Series series Stackpole Classics
    Eugene Burns worked tirelessly and meticulously to research and understand the fundamentals of fly fishing. He questioned traditional fishing methods and ideas used for hundreds of years and honed in on subtle nuances most fishermen gloss over. He fundamentally changed fly fishing by revolutionizing casting with the Lazy S technique and introducing day-glo fluorescent materials to fly tying. “In ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Metlakahtla and the North Pacific Mission of the Church Missionary Society

    Enriched edition. Spreading Christianity in the North Pacific: A Missionary Legacy

    by Eugene Stock, Adrian Burns ...
    In "Metlakahtla and the North Pacific Mission of the Church Missionary Society," Eugene Stock presents a meticulous account of the mission's endeavors in the remote communities of the North Pacific. Stock employs a narrative style that marries a historical overview with ethnographic observations, vividly capturing the cultural encounters between Western missionaries and Indigenous peoples. His ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A River Never Sleeps

    by Roderick L. Haig-Brown, Thomas McGuane ...
    Few books have captured the haunting world of music and rivers and of the sport they provide as well as A River Never Sleeps. Roderick L. Haig-Brown writes of fishing not just as a sport, but also as an art. He knows moving water and the life within it-its subtlest mysteries and perpetual delights. He is a man who knows fish lore as few people ever will, and the legends and history of a great ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation

    by George Copway, Shelley Hulan ...
    Series series Early Canadian Literature
    The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation (1850) was one of the first books of Indigenous history written by an Indigenous author. The book blends nature writing and narrative to describe the language, religious beliefs, stories, land, work, and play of the Ojibway people. Shelley Hulan's afterword considers Copway's rhetorical strategies in framing a narrative—she ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Sex, Death, and Fly-Fishing

    by John Gierach ...
    Series series John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library
    From the irrepressible author of Trout Bum and The View from Rat Lake comes an engaging, humorous, often profound examination of life’s greatest mysteries: sex, death, and fly-fishing.John Gierach’s quest takes us from his quiet home water—an ordinary, run-of-the-mill trout stream where fly-fishing can be a casual affair—to Utah’s famous Green River, and to unknown creeks throughout the Western ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Report by the Governor on a Visit to the Micmac Indians at Bay D'Espoir: Colonial Reports, Miscellaneous. No. 54. Newfoundland

    by William MacGregor ...
    The Governor to the Secretary of State. Government House, St. John's, 8th July, 1908. My Lord, I have the honour to inform you that I left St. John's on the 28th May to visit the settlement of the Micmac Indians at Bay d'Espoir, on the south coast of this Island. Bay d'Espoir is a long inlet of the sea, extending up country over a score of miles. The district is hilly, and is covered by a forest ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Refuge

    An Unnatural History of Family and Place

    by Terry Tempest Williams ...
    In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its most random, the other a by-product of rogue ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Canadian Exploration Literature

    An Anthology

    by Germaine Warkentin ...
    Series Book 3 - Voyageur Classics
    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 ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Simple Fly Fishing

    Techniques for Tenkara and Rod and Reel

    by Yvon Chouinard, Craig Mathews, Mauro Mazzo ...
    Modern-day fly fishing, like much in life, has become exceedingly complex, with high-tech gear, a confusing array of flies and terminal tackle, accompanied by high-priced fishing guides. This book reveals that the best way to catch trout is simply, with a rod and a fly and not much else. The wisdom in this book comes from a simpler time, when the premise was: the more you know, the less you need. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Longest Silence

    A Life in Fishing

    by Thomas McGuane ...
    From the highly acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts comes a collection of alternately playful and exquisite essays—including seven collected here for the first time—borne of a lifetime spent fishing."Thomas McGuane writes about fishing better than anyone else in the history of mankind." —Jim Harrison, New York Times bestselling author of Legends of the FallThe forty ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders

    A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury

    by John Gierach ...
    Series series John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library
    Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders collects forty of John Gierach’s finest essays on fishing from six of his books. Like all his writing, these essays are seasoned by a keen sense of observation and a deep knowledge and love of fishing lore, leavened by a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD