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  • The Adventures of an Elephant Hunter

    "The Scot James Sutherland... reputedly shot 1,200 elephant bulls...the stuff of legends." - Film and the American Moral Vision of Nature (2011)"James Sutherland...is remembered as one of the greats of Africa's professional elephant hunters." - Great Tuskers of Africa (2006)"Heavy tusks were secured by the elephant hunter James Sutherland...the heavier of the tusks weighed 152 pounds."-Ivory and ... Read more

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  • The Adventures Of An Elephant Hunter With Illustrations

    Originally published 1912. A detailed and exciting record of sixteen years spent hunting African elephants and other big game. During ten of these years the author shot 447 bull elephants - a world record. Many of the earliest hunting books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these classic works ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Greenhills to Singapore

    The story of one of the Palembang Nine

    The story of a young man named John Kerle Tipaho Haberfield from the very south of New Zealand. In World War Two he enlisted in the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve and after training as a pilot in England and Canada he joined the Fleet Air Arm. Late in 1943 he was posted to a fighter squadron and joined to the Far East completing further training in India and Ceylon. He was then posted ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • The Adventures of an Elephant Hunter

    "James Sutherland...the world's mightiest elephant hunter." -Kingston Whig-Standard, Dec. 30, 1913"James Sutherland, the ivory hunter, who has a record bag of over 480 elephants...has more right than anybody else to be described as 'the Allan Quartermain of real life.'" -Birmingham Post Herald, Sept. 21, 1913"Thirteen years in the African jungle with a bag of 600 elephants to his credit, James ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • The History of Mr Polly

    by H. G. Wells ...
    Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as the owner of a regional gentleman's outfitters. Faced with the threat of bankruptcy, he concludes that the only way to escape his frustrating existence is by burning his shop to the ground, and killing himself. Unexpected events, however, conspire at the last moment to lead the bewildered Mr Polly to a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Ronald Reagan

    A Twentieth-Century Life

    Series series Up Close
    Discover the incredible life and enduring legacy of Ronald Regan in this captivating Up Close biography series about twentieth-century America.The child of an alcoholic, Ronald Reagan was a Hollywood actor turned Republican politician known for his sunny optimism and gifted salesmanship. He entered the White House in 1981, a time when many Americans were wondering if their country’s best days were ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Ten-Year Century

    Explaining the First Decade of the New Millennium

    The Ten-Year Century is a book for people have never known a time when blogs, iPods, and the war on terror didn’t exist, putting history in context and explaining how the world is smaller, faster, and more connected than it’s ever been.It’s hard to believe it, but it’s been ten years since we said goodbye to the twentieth century. And with the ending of the first decade of the new millennium, it’s ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Proteostasis and Disease

    From Basic Mechanisms to Clinics

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book, written by members of the European network PROTEOSTASIS, provides an up-to-date review of the research regarding protein homeostasis in health and disease. With new discoveries contributing to the increasing complexity of this topic, the book offers a detailed overview of the pathways regulating protein homeostasis, including autophagy and the ubiquitin protein family. Following a basic ... Read more

    $204.99 CAD

  • The Minotaur’s Daughter

    Selected Poems

    by Eva Luka ...
    Translated by James Sutherland-Smith ...
    Series series The Slovak List
    Poems from a new Slovak voice reminiscent of Rilke and Sharon Olds.An evocative collection by Slovak poet Eva Luka, The Minotaur’s Daughter seamlessly melds the human and natural worlds, weaving motifs of mythology, nature, and personal freedom into a tapestry of vivid imagery and profound emotion. The poems traverse settings from Japan to mythic landscapes, exploring the complexities of sexuality ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

  • Dinner with Fish and Mirrors

    Ivana Milankov belongs to the first generation of poets from Central and Eastern Europe to be influenced by American anti-establishment poetry, including the Beat poets. Her own work, as a result, captures and rails against Serbia's rich historical and religious history. Hers is also an untiring effort to reach beyond the confines of the world towards mystical revelation, to communicate the ... Read more

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  • Eternal Traffic

    Mila Haugova has written a moving book about the farewell of loved ones and the slipping away of one's own life. The starting point is a double loss: her mother dies and her lover goes his own way. During her dead mother's childhood and distant past, the loved ones have faced a hoped-for future. Now only a reduced daily life remains, shot through with ever present memories. Haugova overlays the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Memoir of Jane Austen

    and Other Family Recollections

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I doubt whether it would be possible to mention any author of note, whose personal obscurity was so complete.' James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in 1870, over fifty years after her death. Together with the shorter recollections of James Edward's two sisters, Anna Lefroy and Caroline Austen, the Memoir remains the prime authority for her life and continues to ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD